Efficiency Engineering Inc. offers a full range of services to help facility
owners make the best decisions in a restructured electrical market.
Load Profiling
When your
electricity market is restructured, you suddenly have the power to select a
rate tariff which works best for your business. Default supplier contracts
are not the best choice for many customers, and alternate suppliers will
offer up a number of options. Your priorities in negotiating a contract
should be:
- Avoid peak price fluctuations
- Contractual security of supply
- Minimizing overall costs while ensuring good service
Commercial and industrial electricity customers should
establish an aggregate load profile, with an hour by hour total demand for all
their facilities. Only with this information can a buyer negotiate the best
contract or select the best tariff. Past bills will not be enough, because they
will not contain information on the time of day that electricity was used. New
rates tariffs will vary as often as every hour.
We provide recording
meters, custom software, and technical expertise to fill in the missing
information. Our reports include daily and weekly profiles taken directly from
meter data. Annual profiles are built up from the meter data and from historical
utility bills, to provide a complete year-round picture. Hourly bin tables
provides the high degree of detail that a supplier will need to make the best
possible offer. Since we use the most modern power meters from Fluke and Dranetz,
our load profiling service includes analysis and recommendations related to
power factor, power quality, voltage variance, and phase imbalance. You can
check the quality and reliability of your service at the same time you are
comparing rate options.
Rate
Comparison
Once you have a load
profile, we can help you compare competing rate tariffs. Apply each tariffs to
the hour-by-hour annual profile to develop an annual budget.
Ready for Restructured Markets
Restructuring creates both risks and opportunities. Contact
Efficiency Engineering where we've been helping clients understand and
control utility costs since 1990.