Contract types, and the best one for your business

Our Procurement Team establishes the best deals by using key pointers to develop bespoke buying strategies before going to the market. By ensuring we know your business as well as you do, we are able to go to market with confidence and create contracts based on your business’s key performance indicators.

Fixed
contract types

Fixed contracts provide stable, simplistic costing strategies and budgets can be consistently assured with your monthly bill consisting of the same yield each month. 

However, there are many downfalls of fixing a contract. They often work out very expensive due to suppliers benchmarking at a higher rate across a fixed period of time. You’ll only have one opportunity to buy your energy at the start of the contract; you will not be able to benefit from any reduction in wholesale cost during the duration of your contract.

Fixed contracts are suitable if you have a small business with a single meter and are looking for a secure budgeting strategy to fall in-line with your business’s KPI’s.

Hybrid
contract types

Hybrid contracts provide a combination of both fixed and flexible type contracts, typically a 50:50 split. This means you benefit from the stability of a fixed contract, as well as having the ability to buy in the remaining 50% when the market shows a decrease in wholesale movements. This can be done in advance so you’re able to take advantage of the market decreases. 

Hybrid contracts do have an element of risk involved, meaning you could end up paying more if the market moves in a bullish direction. 

Our in-house team of Traders and Risk Management gurus will ensure you are locking in at the right moment giving you the best prices on offer.

Hybrid contacts are more suited to SME or large corporate businesses.

Flexible
contract types

Flexible contracts provide you with complete freedom and control on purchasing your energy. With a flexible contract you don’t have to purchase all of your energy at once and you have the freedom to be selective on when you buy your energy. For example, you can purchase your energy for months in advance ignoring more current periods if we believe the immediate market will go down. Our team of Traders and Risk Management Analysts will be able to buy your energy in months, quarters or seasons, in and out of sequence, while maintaining control of your costs. 

Due to the nature of a fully flexible contract, there are several risks to look at before settling with this option. For example, your monthly invoice will vary due to fluctuations in the market meaning you could end up paying more than you’ve forecast to spend.

Fully flexible contracts are suited to larger business of around 30GWh+ consumption per year.

For further information on procurement or contract types

For more information on contract types or if you would like to discuss your energy procurement processes with us, please get in touch and one or our dedicated consultants will get back to you.

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