Plenary Session
Introduction: The energy buyer of the future
- Benedict De Meulemeester, CEO at E&C Consultants
- Jens Lievens, co-CEO at E&C Consultants
Corporate energy transitions entail a complete makeover of your sites’ energy supply situation. From having one electricity and one gas contract for all sites in one country, companies will switch to a much more complex portfolio of different on-site and off-site PPAs, residual supply contracts, contracts for feeding energy into the grid instead of withdrawing from it, battery stations and even arrangements with your employees connecting their EV’s to the bi-directional charging stations in your parking lots or contracts with providers of services to capitalize the demand flexibilities you have in your processes.
Unless you want to pay the price for the comfort of outsourcing all of this to one service provider, you will have to step up your game in energy procurement.
Are you ready to manage and negotiate that larger portfolio of contracts? Not having MWh’s produced when you consume them, will create new complexities for your risk management. And a multitude of invoices will come in, how do you stitch them together to answer a plant manager’s request for information on their energy costs?
In the introductory session regarding the energy buyer of the future we will show you what choices are to be made in your contracting, risk management and data management processes to make your corporate energy transition a procurement success.
We’ll propose different organisational models both within your company and regarding the engagement of energy supply and services companies. And we’ll open the debate of how you as an energy buyer need to reinvent yourself to service the new energy buying needs of your organization.