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E&C is an independent energy management consultancy specializing in procurement strategy, risk management, and decarbonization. We provide data-driven insights and advisory services to optimize energy costs and sustainability goals.

Energy procurement is the process of sourcing and managing your energy supply — including electricity, gas, and renewables — in a way that aligns with your operational needs and financial goals. Done strategically, it can reduce costs, minimize risk, and support sustainability objectives.

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Large energy consumers, multi-site operations, manufacturers, and companies with sustainability goals benefit most. We serve businesses seeking cost optimization, risk management, and decarbonization across regulated and deregulated markets.

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We conduct stakeholder workshops to understand your business impact from energy volatility, categorize your risk profile (budget/market/survival risk), and create a Strategy Note with concrete proposals for management approval and annual strategy reviews.

Adaptive risk management continuously adjusts strategies based on market conditions, portfolio performance, and business changes, unlike static traditional approaches. Our dynamic tools provide real-time optimization and proactive recommendations.

Yes, our platform manages multi-country portfolios with region-specific market analysis, regulatory compliance, and coordinated risk strategies. We adapt approaches to local market conditions while maintaining overall strategic alignment.

In fact, we have a blog all about Strategic alignment >

Yes, our dedicated Traders proactively monitor your portfolio and market conditions daily. We contact you with fixing/unfixing advice when risk management principles or market opportunities warrant action during regular meetings. 

We track mark-to-market performance, budget-at-risk values, overall fixed-price levels, and compliance with strategy parameters. Performance reports include cost savings generated, strategies implemented, and market analysis with configurable dashboards.

We use a structured, three-round negotiation process backed by both quantitative and qualitative analysis. This ensures you get optimal terms — not just lowest price — that align with your risk profile and business needs.

We handle supplier selection, timing, RFQ document preparation, communication management, and follow-up. We create transparent quotation analysis comparing all proposals quantitatively and qualitatively using detailed condition matrices.

We offer flexible involvement from passive background support to full-scale active negotiation. The approach is determined jointly with you. We assist until contract signature but are not contracting parties.

Process duration depends on market complexity, number of suppliers, and negotiation requirements. We optimize timing based on market conditions and your business needs.

We recommend contracts based on your risk profile, consumption patterns, and market conditions. Our white paper details 13 key contract properties to optimize your energy procurement strategy.

We collect invoices, perform initial and continuous audits for errors, monitor contractual volume compliance, and immediately alert you to anomalies requiring action like billing mistakes or volume condition threats.

We calculate budgetary impacts of regulatory changes, perform non-commodity exemption audits at collaboration start, assess cost-reduction opportunities when exemption rules change, and provide regular newsflash updates.

Yes, we provide high-level advice for obtaining lower energy costs including contracted capacity optimizations, interruptible capacity marketing, and other cost-reduction opportunities based on regulatory exemptions.

We agree on volume projections, apply recent utility tariffs for non-commodity costs, use hedged prices for contracted portions, apply market prices for unhedged volumes, and add safety margins based on pending rate cases.

Yes, monthly or quarterly reforecasting updates budgets with actual volumes from recent invoices, new tariffs, recent market prices, and hedges made after initial budget creation for consistent decision-making.

Our secure, dedicated data management platform providing information, communication, and decision-making tools for energy buyers. Multi-user setups available with different permissions and access to customized reports and visualizations.

Security settings ensure customers access only their dedicated sites. E&C staff have access to all customer sites for service delivery. Multi-user configurations available with differentiated permissions for user classes.

Annual savings reports, one customized management report (your proposal or selected from our examples), daily market analysis, monthly/yearly market analysis, and blog articles with email alerts 

Daily updates including end-of-day market values, intraday price updates, portfolio calculations, and material changes. Fortnightly commodity reports for flexible contracts and budget reporting as needed.

Yes, thanks to established data structure and flexible tools, we have broad possibilities for developing, implementing, and updating customized reports to service specific stakeholder needs and requirements.

We analyse on-site PPA potential using geographical surface data, calculate solar production potential, estimate other renewable options, and assess carbon reduction and cost savings potential for each option.

Sweet spot analysis comparing savings versus price risk, decarbonization curve ranking options by risk level, concrete timing recommendations for renewable energy pursuits, updated every 6 months.

Yes, we manage the entire PPA process including RFQ organization, supplier selection, proposal analysis, negotiation assistance, risk analysis, and final recommendations while maintaining complete independence from suppliers.

Continuous monitoring of first-tier carbon emissions based on energy invoices using official emission factors for natural gas and electricity production mix data from suppliers for accurate reporting.

We provide cost estimations for different quality certificates including standard guarantees of origin, technology-specific options (wind/solar), and additionality certificates from recent projects for higher-quality green energy procurement.

Setup includes database configuration, historical data input, Letter-of-Authority signing for direct supplier access, summary meetings covering billing situation, error identification, and budgeting process alignment discussions.

You'll have dedicated E&C consultants for ongoing portfolio management and advice, plus specialized roles including portfolio traders for execution, and analysts for detailed market and contract analysis.

Through regular meetings for strategy review, immediate contact for urgent anomalies, proactive consultant outreach for fixing opportunities, and secure ePoint platform access for ongoing monitoring and reporting.

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We´re very proud of our culture at E&C and work hard to foster it. It´s mirrored in our company Teal structure, which centres on three key ideas: self-management, wholeness and evolutionary purpose. We can´t list all the facets and initiatives here that make us great to work with. Head over to our jobs page to find out more: https://ecconsultants.recruitee.com/

Absolutely. E&C plays a crucial role in the global energy transition by making decarbonization cost-effective for businesses. We promote new technologies, apply fair procurement practices, and help clients achieve sustainability goals efficiently. You'd contribute directly to building a better, more sustainable world.

Our commitment to our people, society and planet doesn´t stop there. Take a look at our Corporate Social Responsibility page to find out more >