Services

Here are some of the 
core services we offer:

Energy Needs Assessment

  • We evaluate your current energy management strategies.
  • We analyze and evaluate your energy load data.
  • We benchmark your historical energy usage and consumption patterns.

Price Risk Management & Options Analysis

  • We explore your contracting and supply options.
  • We consider index and fixed options, determining which will best meet your needs.
  • We assess current and forward market pricing, identifying lowest-cost hedging scenarios.
  • We explore the best opportunities for controlling energy management risks and associated costs.

Competitive Energy Procurement Strategies

  • We simplify the energy procurement process by doing ALL the groundwork for you.
  • We recommend an appropriate Energy Procurement Strategy outlining contract term, product and pricing options, and potential retailers, taking into account your utility requirements combined with your desires to mitigate any energy price volatility.
  • We manage the Request for Proposals process, creating competition and ensuring that our clients receive the most competitive rates available at that time for any contracted blocks of energy.
  • Given our years of experience dealing with energy contracts, we've come to know what works and what doesn't. Contracts vary between retailers, but before our clients sign with a retailer we do a thorough contract review and analysis ensuring it's appropriate to their needs.

Seamless Transition & Client Relationship Management

  • We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive client management.
  • We ensure a smooth transition between retailers at the contract commencement.
  • We provide ongoing service and support throughout the contract term.

Budget Forecasting

  • Budget certainty should be one of the primary reasons for entering a contract.
  • We create budget certainty by stabilizing and /controlling your energy costs.
  • By using historical data and current energy contract prices, an energy cost estimate is created showing the impact of long term contracting.

Market Intelligence & Competitive Price Discovery

  • We constantly monitor energy prices on our clients' behalf, helping them make sense of market trends. This day-to-day market surveillance enables us to assess opportunity and risk.
  • We supply historical information and regular energy market updates to provide insight into the market so informed decisions can be made.

Contract Management & Reporting (optionally offered)

  • Depending upon our clients' needs, USI offers an optional host of customized services related to contract management, specialized analyses and market reporting.
  • We can provide performance evaluations and realized gain or loss summaries.
  • We can prepare "mark to market" reporting (current value of contract) as part of our mid-term contract auditing and evaluation.

Greenhouse Gas Offset Reporting & Sales

  • We manage the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Offset process from start to finish.
  • We assess and determine the relevant program for claiming GHG Offset credits.
  • We prepare and submit the required reporting to Provincial Regulatory Boards.
  • We arrange for third party verification of the GHG Offsets being claimed.
  • We coordinate the sale and transfer of approved GHG Offsets.

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