Energy Procurement Blog

We have seen a lot of hype regarding the direction of Natural Gas prices in the United States.  The range of predictions is across the board.  Some believe that lower prices are here to stay awhile, while others are predicting 4-5 dollar gas by the end of the year.  This blog contains only the facts to consider.  It does not offer any conjecture on where the prices are headed - just the facts!

On December 9, 2011, the American Public Power Association (APPA) filed comments to FERC urging them to work with the EPA to provide the electric power industry with sufficient time to comply with the rules set out in CSAPR. This filing was a follow-up to a November 30th FERC reliability technical conference on the impacts of various EPA regulations on coal-fired capacity in the United States. The APPA believes the EPA should grant the electric power sector, particularly public power utilities, additional compliance time beyond the standard three years provided under the Clean Air Act...

What’s on the horizon that can and will affect our energy resources? Once again, we must turn our attention to China. Let’s face it – one fifth of the world’s population lives in China! Since it has become industrialized it is consuming more energy than ever before! Consider the following facts:

• By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities!
• By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
  
• China already consumes twice as much steel as the U.S., Europe and Japan combined.
  
• China has more than 50 million vehicles on the road...

Energy is a complex purchase.  It's not like buying copy paper.  This blog is about the top three mistakes we see companies make when purchasing energy such as natural gas and electricity.