A crucial step in centralizing global energy procurement is the definition of responsibilities. When we set up a central energy procurement strategy, we carve up the energy procurement activity in its different sub-activities:

• negotiating energy contracts,
• energy price management activities,
• setting up energy budgets and checking energy bills and
• energy data management.

For each of these activities, we then define on both a central and a local level who:

• is doing the work
• is taking the decision
• has an advisory role
• needs to be kept informed.

With such a matrix, the model can go anywhere from completely local, to local with an advisory role for a central buyer, to a central buyer doing the work but local stakeholders taking certain decisions such as signing the contracts, to full centralization. 

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