Saving on energy is not only about the rate. The gain often lies in the right classification, the right choices and taking the hassle off your hands. Here are a few examples from practice.
Do you know whether you are a profile customer or hourly metered? It matters, because the right classification often saves a serious amount.
At a consumption of more than 170,000 m³ of gas, the supplier and grid operator classify a customer as hourly metered. If you use less, you still have the freedom to choose between a profile contract and an hourly metered one. In some cases it is actually cheaper to be classified as hourly metered while the supplier sees you as profile, even when your volume is below 170,000 m³. That has everything to do with the annual volume and maximum hourly capacity parameters, in combination with what your company does.
Firma Oosterom grows anthuriums and was classified as a profile customer. Turrent looked at Oosterom's profile. Their consumption is fairly even across the year, they do not steam and they have an annual volume of 150,000 m³.
That led us to conclude that money could be saved by switching to hourly metering. We arranged it for them, and the result is a saving of around € 5,000 a year.
Football club FC Skillz had a grid connection and a contract that were not set up as well as they could be. Turrent went over everything again with grid operator Stedin and optimised it.
By matching the connection and the terms properly to each other, we managed to save FC Skillz thousands of euros. Exactly the kind of gain that often sits hidden in a contract nobody has looked at for years.
Gelato and coffee bar Dolcetto was running into the limits of its existing electricity connection. We measured out exactly what is really being used and advised Dolcetto which changes were needed.
We then had grid operator Stedin upgrade the connection and had the infrastructure optimised by our regular electrician, SA Elektro Experts.
At Shakespeare, The Milkshake Bar, we reduced the electricity meter to what is actually needed. Capacity that is too large or a meter that is too heavy means unnecessarily high grid charges every month.
At the Amsterdam site we also had grid operator Liander remove the unused G16 gas connection. That comes to a saving of € 903.71 a year, because those standing charges are now gone entirely.
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Keeping in touch with an energy supplier can be an exhausting business. Never reaching the right people, getting no answer, failing to get things put right. Annoying for companies that would rather get on with running a business than with energy affairs.
Maatschap Jager grows potatoes and sugar beet. They had a number of matters outstanding with a large energy supplier. From incorrect advance payment amounts to direct debits taken from the wrong account and meter readings that could not possibly be right, all sorts of things were going wrong. Instead of getting it resolved, Maatschap Jager was sent from pillar to post. They got no answer, got no explanation and at a certain point were at their wits' end.
Turrent then picked up all of Maatschap Jager's affairs and became their fixed contact person at the energy supplier. That way they never had to look at it again and could concentrate on running the business.
What a relief that Turrent took over all our energy affairs and sorted everything out.
At Turrent we have good contacts at suppliers, metering companies and grid operators. When something needs sorting out for a client, we know who to go to in order to fix it.
You can hand this over to us completely and save a lot of time that way. We pick it up, you keep your hands free for running the business.
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