Deregulated/Regulated Landscape

 

Deregulated markets provide an opportunity for companies to take advantage of third party energy supply in addition to purchasing the commodity from the local utility.  Not only may third party supply be more economic, but it may also offer the opportunity to structure longer or more flexible risk reduction.  To the extent that a company switches to third party supply, the local utility continues to be responsible for delivery of natural gas/electricity and they are the responsible party for any outages or service issues.  Savings using third party suppliers tend to average 10-15% compared to default utility rates.