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Reducing energy costs and decarbonizing supply chains
Every company seeks to reduce its energy costs, especially today given the combined effects of the energy crises: volatile prices, high costs, and the need to decarbonize driven by climate change. The Procurement Department will therefore seek to lower its energy purchase price while working with the CSR Department to decarbonize Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
Enhancing Competitiveness Through Energy Procurement
Challenging their energy provider to lower the price per MWh is often companies’ first instinct, as it yields immediate results in terms of cost savings.
Maliro’s support for energy procurement naturally includes this aspect, but it doesn’t stop there: we typically leverage six strategies to enhance our clients’ competitiveness, which will provide price transparency while reducing Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. To learn more about Scopes 1, 2, and 3, visit our Decarbonization section.
Lever #1: Defining the Strategy and Setting Prices
Based on your contracts, invoices, bank statements, and budget forecasts, we analyze your actual and projected consumption, the breakdown of your associated costs, and the proportion they represent in your expenses. We pay particular attention to cost fluctuations, identifying their causes and the associated factors (changes in market prices, changes in regulated transmission rates, hedging with fixed rates, etc.). By cross-referencing this data, we help you define objectives tailored to your short- and long-term needs. Together, we validate a strategy for setting prices and volumes that takes into account your desired level of risk relative to fluctuations in the energy markets.
Lever No. 2: Contract Negotiation
We help draft the request for proposals for energy suppliers. We assist you throughout the process to compare bids and negotiate the contractual terms that best suit your specific situation. We work closely with the various departments involved within your company: Procurement, Operations, Finance, and CSR.
Lever No. 3: Low-Carbon Energy Production
We provide our expertise in setting up low-carbon energy purchase agreements: long-term green electricity (on-site and off-site PPAs), biomethane, biomass, heat, or steam. In addition to reducing energy costs, these arrangements help you address Scopes 1 and 2 of your greenhouse gas emissions. Please note: The installation of low-carbon generation assets, such as photovoltaic parking canopies, is sometimes mandatory to comply with the FrenchAPER1 law.
Lever No. 4: Energy Taxation
Transmission Tariff Contribution (CTA) for gas and electricity, excise tax on natural gas (formerly TICGN, Domestic Consumption Tax on Natural Gas), excise tax on electricity: We verify that you are paying the correct amounts based on your line of business and specific circumstances, and we optimize costs according to the latest thresholds and exemption rates in effect.
Lever No. 5: Network Costs at the Right Levels
We verify that your daily/hourly capacity and your contracted power are aligned with your needs. The goal is to keep your fixed costs under control without exceeding your consumption limits, which would result in penalties.
Lever No. 6: Making consumption more flexible through load-shedding programs
We help you identify equipment that can be shut down for a given period to maintain grid balance. Making consumption more flexible through demand response programs allows consumers to temporarily reduce their electricity usage during periods of high prices or peak demand, which directly lowers their energy costs. It also provides consumers with a new source of income by compensating them for their flexibility, while improving the stability of the power grid.
Our expertise across the energy value chain—built on 20 years of experience in this field—enables us to implement these six strategies confidently and effectively.
For our clients, this means guaranteed results:
- cost reduction and cost control
- by price visibility
- in decarbonization
1 The Law on Accelerating Renewable Energy Production (APER) requires that existing outdoor parking lots larger than 1,500 m² install solar panels (parking canopies) over at least half of their surface area.
Article 57 of Law No. 2010-788 establishes a minimum target of 5 to 10% of parking spaces to be equipped with electric vehicle charging stations, with 5 to 20% of spaces requiring pre-installation infrastructure.
The Building and Housing Code requires new buildings larger than 500 m² to cover at least 50% of their roofs with vegetation or photovoltaic panels by 2027.
500 million euros per year
energy
250 factories
40 countries
2.5 metric tons
CO2e/year(Scopes 1 & 2)
