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Energy consulting for businesses that use electricity and gas
You pay for energy at the price of an RFQ, request for quotation, and someone checks every invoice against the regulations in force.
Who it is for
Industrial, manufacturing and agricultural businesses, hotels and restaurants that want to optimise the costs of their electricity and gas supplies, and leave the paperwork to us.
What you get
What we need from you
What we do
Analysis
We start from the latest invoices of each supply point: how much you spend, on what, and what can be improved.
Seasonal RFQ
To the best-performing operators nationwide, with a negotiation tailored to your needs. The large volumes we manage give us weight in the market.
Contract
We choose together, drawing on our experience and with complete transparency. Without tacit renewal, with the expiry aligned to the calendar year for electricity and to the gas year for gas.
Paperwork
Power increases and reductions, account transfers and takeovers, closures and new connections, contract terminations, excise duties and tax relief, payment reminders and repayment plans.
Every month
The comparison with the consumption recorded by the local distributor, the check of the invoices and, where needed, the documentation to dispute them.
How it works
You send us your invoices
You receive the analysis
You join the RFQ
You sign the contract
We take care of the rest
RFQ for gas since 2017-18, for electricity since 2018.
The regulations behind the service
Energy component, transmission, distribution and metering, general system charges, excise duties, VAT, equalisation and adjustments: for every item on the invoice, the act that governs it. And the CSEA relief for energy-intensive and gas-intensive businesses.
Regulations and marketsStep by step
From the first invoice to the new contract, and then every month
The invoice analysis
You send us last year’s electricity and gas invoices and your current supply contracts. We start from each supply point: how much you spend, on what, and what can be improved. We reply with a supply analysis report, not a price list. It is work EKA invests in, to get to know you and present the service, at no cost to you.
The RFQ, request for quotation
If you decide to go ahead, with a mandate of representation we ask the best-performing operators nationwide for offers, with a negotiation tailored to your needs, and we assess each operator’s references and soundness. The offers are compared on a single sheet, and the strategy is decided with you: when to fix the price, and for how long. The large volumes we manage give us weight on the market.
The contract
The choice stays yours. The new contract has no automatic renewal, with the expiry aligned to the calendar year for electricity and to the gas year for gas.
Withdrawals and transfers
Every supply has its own notice periods for withdrawal: we work them out, and in the meantime we prepare the new contract. Then the paperwork, with a date for each item and someone following it: transfers and takeovers, power increases and reductions, closures and new connections. Who sends the withdrawal, with what notice and how long a switch takes: the guide to switching supplier.
Invoice checks, every month
The supplier does not read the meter: the distributor does. So we compare the kWh invoiced with the consumption recorded by the distributor, and Calibra, EKA’s software, recalculates every electricity and gas invoice from scratch, item by item, with the regulation alongside: energy, transport, system charges, excise duties, VAT. A discrepancy is disputed with the supplier with the figures already prepared, and the credit note is followed through to the end. Calibra is included in all services for consumers. To read an invoice yourself: the guide, item by item.
Relief schemes
Excise duties and relief are among the procedures we handle, including the relief from CSEA, the Energy and Environmental Services Fund, for energy-intensive and gas-intensive companies. Who the energy-intensive companies are and what they can apply for. And if you pay for reactive energy on your invoice, the guide explains when it is charged and how to avoid it.
The report
The market report
EKA’s clients receive the market report: the PUN and the PSV with forward prices, and a line of reading above the figures. Every Monday, for everyone, we tell in words how the week went in the Monday note. If you are not a client, we send you a sample report.
Frequently asked questions
Questions from consumers
How much does the first analysis cost?
Nothing. It is work in which EKA invests, to get to know you and present the service, at no cost to you: you send us your invoices from the last year, or your plant’s data sheet, and we reply with an analysis. How EKA is paid.
My supplier already gives me a good price.
The price of energy is only one part of the invoice: the rest is network services, charges and taxes. And that is where errors, if there are any, are found.
I have a contract I can’t cancel.
Every supply has its own notice period: we calculate it, and in the meantime we prepare the new contract, with no tacit renewal.
Doesn’t the supplier already check consumption?
The supplier never reads the meter: the distributor does. We request the load curves and compare the kWh invoiced.
The first step
We start from your figures
Send us your invoices from the last year, or your plant’s data sheet: we reply with an analysis, not with a price list.
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