Access Flex: group flexible purchasing
Access Flex is our group purchasing framework which allows you to access the wholesale electricity market on behalf of customers who would not normally have sufficient consumption to do so on a standalone basis. It’s simple to manage and you’ll receive full support from the market experts on our Optimisation Desk.
Features
- Suitable for Half-Hourly (HH), Non-Half Hourly (NHH) and combined portfolios*
- No cross-subsidisation between clients (each priced by own consumption profile)
- One daily Price Setting Report combines the purchasing requirements of all clients
- Functionality such as purchasing, limit orders and warnings included
- Simple contract extension mechanism
- Greater flexibility for client additions and exits
- Dedicated support plus 24/7 online access to our Risk Navigator platform
*Excluding microbusinesses
Fixed: Certainty explained
Fixed: Certainty is our most straight-forward energy contract, providing maximum budget certainty. Ideal for businesses who need a predictable agreed price for their fuel and the support of a dedicated Account Manager.
Fixed: Commodity and Fixed: Choice explained
Fixed: Commodity and Fixed: Choice Our tailored contracts that offer more flexibility within an agreed, manageable framework. These contracts work well for businesses who want more choice around non-commodity payment options, and the support of a dedicated Account Manager.
MultiPurchase explained
MultiPurchase is a simple, fixed energy contract which enables you to split your contract volume into multiple purchases. It provides you with the option to fix your energy prices at points throughout your contract term to limit the risk of market fluctuations, and benefit when prices fall.
MultiPurchase Plus explained
MultiPurchase for power and gas
A simple, fixed term, energy contract for power and gas, allowing you to split your contract into multiple purchases. With MultiPurchase they can fix their energy prices at points throughout the contract term to limit the risk of market fluctuations but benefit when prices fall.
How they split their contract is up to them. Additionally, MultiPurchase includes a range of benefits, including invoicing and expert support.
Flex Streamline for power and gas
This option provides complete flexibility around how you purchase energy on behalf of your customers, with full support from our market-leading Optimisation Desk. Consumption that falls outside standard base and peak-load blocks is covered by a pre-agreed shape premia. A forecasted invoicing rate is set to aid invoice validation, with a monthly reconciliation to ensure your customers accurately pay for their final purchase price.
Fast Flex for power
All the benefits of Flex Streamline but with the removal of a pre-agreed invoicing rate and monthly reconciliations. Instead, each monthly invoice shows exactly what is transacted.
Flex Innovate for power and gas
A contract designed for more sophisticated energy buyers, with all the usual benefits of flexible purchasing but allowing them to pay a published index price for any difference between their tradable blocks and their actual consumption. This means shape is transparently priced and there is no requirement for contractual volume tolerances, since your customer pays for exactly what they use.
Additional benefits
- Choose how you wish to treat non-commodity costs according to each customer’s risk appetite
- A suite of options – for instance offset/reset functionality – to further tailor contracts
- Full online support 24/7 via Risk Navigator
- Expertise always on hand via our award-winning Optimisation Desk
- Renewable option
With net zero on the horizon, finding ways to reduce emissions is more important than ever. Perhaps the simplest way is to opt for carbon-free supply.
Our Business Renewable energy and our UK Renewable Pure energy provide independently-verified sustainable power that’s fully compliant for zero GHG Scope 2 market-based reporting.
It works by matching the power your customer consumes with the equivalent volume of renewable power supplied to the grid. We evidence this by securing the corresponding number of Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) certificates, which are issued for each megawatt-hour (MWh) of renewable generation fed into the UK electricity system.
With net zero on the horizon, finding ways to reduce your customers emissions is more important than ever, find out more about UK Renewable energy for businesses.
Benefits
- A simple way to benefit from renewable power sources
- Enables renewable credentials to be clearly demonstrated
- UK Renewable Pure is generated from wind, solar and hydro only
- Fully compliant with World Resource Institute GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance
- EcoAct assurance stamp provides peace of mind that our product and processes are robust and compliant
- Report zero-carbon emissions without any requirement for additional evidence
- Available with any of our Fixed or Flexible purchasing contracts
Option for your customers to display an Energy Label at their sites as a visual demonstration of their commitment to sourcing renewable power.
The EcoAct assurance stamp gives you confidence that your supply is robustly backed by a sufficient amount of REGOs (from UK generation only) and can therefore be reported as zero-carbon-emission power.
Not sure where to start?
Find your perfect match!
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Fixed or Flex?
To help you identify the right contract for your customer, use our product selector.
Answer a few simple questions and we’ll match the product that best meets your customers' needs: whether its simplicity or flexibility - we have a perfect match
My customer prefers simplicity above complexity
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My customer wants a contract that needs minimal time to manage
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My customer likes to take advantage of market price changes
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All buying decisions are carefully considered, against my customers' buying strategy
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My customer values transparency and budget certainty but requires some flexibility
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My customer wants a bespoke contract that gives them maximum flexibility
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My customer wants to take advantage of market flexibility through group purchasing
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Flex: Streamline
A perfect match
For businesses who value a straightforward approach to flexible energy purchasing. The Flex: Streamline contract lets your customers take advantage of price movement on the wholesale markets, in a hassle-free way
Fast: Flex
A balanced approach
Our Fast:Flex contract combines a balance of flexibility and cost-certainty. It is ideal for businesses that have a solid energy strategy in place and know how to make flexibility work for them.
Flex: Innovate
A product to match your expertise
Perfect for sophisticated energy purchasers, Flex: Innovate works well for businesses who have the resources to take a hands-on approach to their energy management strategy and can take advantage of potential energy price fluctuations.
Get in touch
Your answers indicate that your customer wants an approach that is both simple and sophisticated. Play again to sharpen your choice or get in touch to discuss your needs with one of our energy experts, today.
Access: Flex
A product with buying power
You'd like to offer your customers the advantages of flexible purchasing, without having to go it alone. By aggregating multiple buying contracts, we can help you offer your customers access to flexible buying, with our exclusive Access: Flex product.
My customer likes to be secure in the knowledge that their costs won't change
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My customer wants to make decisions about individual cost elements of their contract
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My customer prefers cost certainty and simplicity above flexibility
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My customer is interested in a more bespoke contract that has the potential to make savings
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My customer is happy to pay a premium for budget certainty
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Fixed: certainty
A perfect match
It's certainly seems that our fixed certainty product will suit your customers desire to have a simple, easy solution that offers you budget certainty.
Fixed: commodity
A balanced approach!
If it’s simplicity, predictability and transparency that your customer is looking for, as well as the ability to stay open to savings opportunities, our Fixed:Commodity contract could meet their needs.
Fix: choice
Great choice!
Our Fixed:choice contract could be the perfect match. With this, your customer has fixed unit prices on their electricity, as well as the opportunity to choose which of their non-commodity prices to fix and which to pay at cost - giving them the best of both worlds.
Get in touch
Your answers indicate that your customer wants an approach that is both simple and sophisticated. Play again to sharpen your choice or get in touch to discuss your needs with one of our energy experts, today.
