Summit Energy services

Summit Energy can bring visibility to your energy program by collecting, cataloging, and summarizing your company’s global invoices and data streams. We make each data set and bill image accessible through our award-winning online energy management software, dashboarDView, which enables you to ‘slice-and-dice’ data at any level.

Many companies pay their utility bills each month without questioning the validity of the charges. While other bills undergo routine scrutiny, utility bills are often the exception, despite the fact that energy rates and contracts are often complex, volatile and difficult to bill correctly.

Unlike utilities, unregulated suppliers operate in a competitive market without a guaranteed rate of return. Suppliers cannot simply pass along the costs of system upgrades, like a sophisticated billing process. As a result, supplier invoices in deregulated markets often contain more, larger errors than utility invoices.

Summit Energy specializes in recommending and implementing custom-fit utility bill management solutions for companies in a wide array of industries. We know the strengths and weaknesses of all the major utility bill management providers and can offer an unbiased recommendation of the solution that best fits your company`s needs. To simplify the process for you, our team completely coordinates the on-boarding process and ensures the integrity of the program throughout the life of the partnership.

Our energy professionals examine your company’s operations to determine what demand response opportunities exist, as programs are only available in certain markets. If your operation qualifies and an opportunity exists in your area, Summit Energy recommends the program and provider that best fits your company’s needs. Our unbiased perspective enables your company to evaluate both the rewards and the risks associated with Demand Response.

While companies do their best to estimate demand for natural gas, it is nearly impossible to predict the exact quantity a given facility will consume. Pipelines and utilities require industrial companies to utilize nomination and balancing programs to manage gas flow and minimize operational imbalances. Summit Energy’s nomination and balancing service enables your company to control cost, avoid penalties, ensure gas supply and manage constraints.

Utilities use two factors – demand and usage - to design their library of rate structures. Many organizations find it challenging to choose amongst the various rate options for numerous facilities with assorted energy needs.

Our energy consultants routinely negotiate with utilities to generate savings for companies. These negotiations extend beyond tariff rates into other utility opportunities, incentives and programs that involve:

Benchmarking energy consumption and cost can be very helpful in evaluating the efficiency of your operations and buildings. However, most companies don’t have the resources necessary to gather and analyze the relevant energy data.

Summit Energy’s leading-edge commodity analysis can position you to take advantage of time-sensitive market opportunities. We conduct fundamental, technical and statistical analysis to determine where prices are headed in the market and to detail drivers of market behavior.