It is no surprise to find that heavy industry makes huge demands on utilities such as commercial gas and commercial electricity. With costs of these commercial utilities on a steadily increasing path, it is also no surprise to discover that these costs can contribute one of the largest costs to such businesses. What may not be so immediately apparent to those without access to the financial dealings of their employer are the major costs that these represent to almost any business, even those that possess no heavy machinery.

Almost all businesses would benefit through being able to manage these commercial electricity rates to a superior standard. The question then becomes: ‘How can a business manage these costs?’

There are no price comparison services for business customers and with only a small handful of commercial energy suppliers, there is definitely a lack of true competition.

The knack to securing competitive pricing is, as with any negotiation, knowing what is realistic to achieve and setting your stall out to secure that best possible deal. For different businesses, that deal will mean different things. A heavy gas user may compromise on the price of electricity to secure the best overall package or long term fixed pricing and the security offered may be more important that the lowest possible flexible pricing.

At Online Energy, we can help to assess how your needs will be best served and then go about establishing the best commercial gas and electricity deal in the market place to service your needs. We do this through specialist knowledge of the market place.

It is acknowledged that, either through inertia, lack of understanding or even through genuine satisfaction that a huge percentage of domestic customers do not specifically seek out the best deals possible for their gas and electricity services. Possibly this is partly due to the different motivations of people, many of whom would not dedicate the time to identifying the best value in every aspect of domestic finance.

Despite many customers staying put with commercial energy suppliers, most customers would easily be able to identify a service that would help them to switch suppliers should they so wish. Despite commercial gas and electricity having nothing like the same price protection that is offered to domestic users, the existence of readily available price comparison services is somewhat more restricted than for the domestic customer.

Under normal ‘free market’ conditions, such services are fairly redundant, this is exactly what the buyer role exists for: to source goods and services at the best possible price for a given service level. While a (good) buyer most certainly won’t suffer from the inertia of some domestic consumers, the area of commercial gas and electricity is a difficult one in which to secure deals without real specialist knowledge. Complex geopolitics, imperialist conflicts and economic cycles have prevented a ‘free market’ from developing in commercial gas and electricity.

At Online Energy, we possess the expert knowledge to identify the market leading deals and commercial energy suppliers on behalf of our customers, which could be your business. These markets are very complex and dynamic, without the right skills to enter this market; you may find yourself longing for the price comparison site that simply doesn’t exist.

Finding great deals for commercial gas and electricity is no simple proposition. Even the most proficient buyer is quite simply going to have a battle when trying to secure the type of pricing that your business may wish to obtain for its utilities.

The commercial gas and commercial electricity markets do tend to be quite dissimilar to many other markets. Whilst de-regulation has clearly changed the landscape for obtaining these services, the product on offer does not lend itself to true free market principles.

The sheer scale of operations required to actually produce commercial gas and electricity preclude smaller providers from entering the supply markets and shaking up pricing. Pricing is also very heavily influenced by global politics and economic considerations. Oil has enjoyed a roller coaster ride of pricing in the last decade and gas supply is heavily influenced by a Russian state with many political challenges attached to it.

Couple these factors with the continued consolidation of re-sellers within the market place and the capacity for dynamic price competition almost disappears in the best possible Paul Daniels’ fashion.

The only possible way to secure competitive pricing for your commercial energy supply is to utilise knowledge of the markets to identify the best possible fixed-rate deals to ensure manageable costs on the bottom line or to identify which commercial energy suppliers are able to offer the best possible flexible pricing to minimise costs. Online Energy specialise in identifying such deals for our partner businesses. Our service is designed to help influence a major cost on the typical bottom line.