Energy Feature


Common Multi-Site Energy Management Challenges & How To Overcome Them


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By SEFE Energy’s UK Head of Mid-Market & Deemed Business, Nathan Smith. and communication


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key to avoiding costly missteps in multi-site energy management. Let’s explore the common issues energy suppliers encounter and how facilities managers can build better processes to avoid them.


Schedule A Six-Monthly Portfolio Cleanse One of the best opportunities to improve multi- site management is simply through ensuring closer coordination between teams that may handle different parts of the process. For example, the finance team that processes the energy agreement and the teams who manage the disposal of sites further down the line.


Take for example if we signed up a customer today who is responsible for a hundred sites and then ten of these are disposed after three months. There are several potential consequences here if this isn’t communicated to the relevant team internally – most notably continuing to pay for a site they’re not responsible for.


Having to recoup this cost takes time and there’s also a risk that they will need to pay more costly out of contract rates rather than the contracted rates, which is typically 2-3x more expensive.


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The most sensible solution is to perform a portfolio cleanse every six months, where you gather the relevant teams and audit your current properties – or, better still, establish a joined-up process from the get-go.


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