Optimizing energy costs

In an uncertain environment, how can you define an optimal purchasing strategy and control your energy costs over the long term?

Since the opening up of the electricity and natural gas markets to competition, companies have been able to benefit from lower prices on their energy bills. This ability to negotiate contracts, however, requires the implementation of an energy purchasing strategy.

Cristal Decisions can help you define and deploy your purchasing strategy, as well as identify and implement price optimizations. Our consultants can help you optimize your energy budget and monitor your spending over the long term.

We activate the essential levers to help you control your energy costs

Supply management

Digital

CSR

Optimization

Supply management

Digital

CSR

Optimization

Supply management

Definition of purchasing strategy

Complete tender management

Pricing strategy

Order book and decision-making support

Digital

Market price monitoring and analysis

Market Price Alert

Budget forecasting and monitoring

CSR

Sourcing from renewable sources

PPA negotiations

Valuation of renewable energy assets

Optimization

Tax optimization

Transmission optimization

Supply optimization

Detection of billing errors

Purchasing energy: an essential challenge for companies

Why turn to energy professionals?

Now that the energy market is open to free competition, electricity and natural gas are traded on the stock exchange or over the counter. As a result, the energy market is subject to fluctuations and speculation, which means you need to know and monitor the market to seize opportunities as they arise.

For this reason, Cristal Decisions offers you the services of its energy professionals, in order to :

Compare offers from different energy suppliers,
Negotiate long-term energy contracts,
Set the right price at the right time,
Define a purchasing strategy consistent with your energy needs.

What are the energy costs for businesses?

The cost of electricity and gas is broken down into 3 components:

The price per electron or gas molecule,
Network access fees,
All taxes and contributions: excise duty on electricity or natural gas, CTA (Contribution Tarifaire d’Acheminement), VAT.

Adapting your energy purchasing to your company's needs

We support you throughout the various phases of your purchasing strategy: definition, deployment and operational follow-up.

Upstream of your call for tenders, we analyze your data, your company’s specific characteristics and your needs, in order to propose a customized purchasing strategy,
We can take charge of your entire tender process, from drawing up specifications to contract signature, including sourcing suppliers and negotiating with them,
We continue to support you throughout the duration of your contract. To do this, our energy consultants first make sure that the conditions negotiated in the contract are applied. What’s more, if you choose to set your prices in several instalments (on the basis of a click formula or a block+spot purchase), we offer to support you in your decision-making (definition of budget limits, creation of a schedule, detection of opportunities, market price alerts, daily and weekly newsletters, etc.),
We can also advise you on the most appropriate ways to include renewable energy your energy mix.

To give you greater visibility, we also help you monitor and project your expenses: we draw up simulators and customized dashboards to help you manage your spending.

Generate savings on your electricity and gas costs

We help you optimize your energy bills. Our aim is to ensure that you pay the right price, as contractually agreed with your supplier. We also ensure that you benefit from the most advantageous rates, adapted to your consumption profile.

Our support covers both your past bills and your future expenses.

Our teams can help you optimize the following items:

Optimizing your energy costs

1. Taxation

Cristal Decisions can help you take advantage of all the optimization opportunities offered by French legislation. Our support includes

A regulatory watch,
Analysis and detection of tax optimization, taking into account your activity and consumption volumes,
Implementation of the leads identified with the authorities, and exchanges with the third parties concerned.

2. Energy supply and transmission

Although transmission tariffs are subject to regulation, it is possible to optimize them in order to benefit from the most advantageous rates. Our experts analyze your consumption profiles in detail, to guide you towards the optimum tariff parameters. Our analyses take into account all supply and transmission components (including taxes and contributions), and will help you make substantial savings on your future bills.

3. Detecting billing errors

Whether they concern consumption or prices, billing errors are common in the industry. Our experts analyze all your invoices in the past (we can go back up to 5 years) to detect any anomalies in consumption or rates. We support you in following up claims and reminders until you actually receive reimbursements

4. Energy subsidies, shock absorbers, one-stop-shops

In the wake of rising energy prices, the French government has set up a number of aid schemes to help the hardest-hit companies:

We can help you assess your eligibility for these schemes,
We'll help you gather all the information you need for your application and submit it in accordance with the required formalities
We follow up applications and maintain contact with the relevant parties, right up to the point of receiving the aid.

Whatever the lever deployed, our teams will support you in collecting and analyzing your data, right through to the operational implementation of the leads detected and the observation of the savings generated.

Billing errors and energy assistance

Harmonize your purchasing strategy across all your sites, in France and abroad

Cristal Decisions can help you define a centralized vision of your energy perimeter in terms of consumption, expenditure and contractual situation. We support you in defining a relevant and harmonized purchasing and hedging strategy.

Our experts are at your side to help you manage your overall expenditure by monitoring contracts, building detailed budget models and effectively deploying your coverage strategy.

Dernières publications

Offer manager : Josepha Fleury

Josepha is manager of the Energy Purchasing Optimization offering. After 3 years in internal control and strategic consulting for companies and local authorities, she has been focusing on energy issues at Cristal Decisions since 2012. Her areas of expertise are :

Assistance in defining a customized energy purchasing strategy,
In-depth knowledge of all energy bill cost items and how to optimize them,
Use of customer consumption data to draw up simulations, maps and decision-making tools,
The search for new solutions to meet consumer needs,
Managing relations with suppliers and service providers.

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