Margins are thin, and energy is one of the few cost lines you can still move. But it moves on capacity and timing, not only on how much you use - and most retailers see an invoice per location, never a profile.
COMCAM runs Energy Portfolio Management on your connections: procurement, peak and capacity as one position, built on quarter-hour data. One store or two hundred.
We see the same pattern in every sector. A market that keeps moving, what your connection and your own profile allow, and where sustainability has to take you. Each on its own is manageable. The bigger problems arise where they overlap, and that is where most of our work is.
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One portfolio across all stores: procurement, grid headroom and sustainability belong in one plan, not three.
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One portfolio, one team: analysis, strategy, trading and risk management across all three forces.
Different formats carry different loads. Underneath them sit the same three questions.
Margins are thin, so energy weighs heavily. Network charges and contracted capacity now set a growing part of the bill, and market moves reach you differently on a fixed contract than on a tranche or dynamic one.
Every location delivers meter readings and an invoice; almost none delivers a profile. What sits underneath differs by format - refrigeration in a supermarket, lighting and climate in a clothing store - and you cannot steer what you have never seen per quarter-hour.
Charge points, solar on the roof, a heat pump instead of gas: each raises the peak in kW, and that is what a connection is judged on - the GTV on a large-consumer connection, the connection rating (aansluitwaarde) on a small-consumer one. In a congestion area, extra capacity is not a given.
Three layers that work the same way on every connection, whatever the format.
Lighting, climate, refrigeration and charging shown separately instead of as one number on the invoice - small-consumer connections included, where the overview is missing entirely.
We steer what is actually steerable at your site: refrigeration where there is refrigeration, charging where there are charge points, a battery where there is one - always to hold the highest quarter-hour value under the GTV, or under the connection rating. In a congestion area we offer that flexibility to the grid operator as a Congestion Service Provider recognised by TenneT, within limits you set.
Your volume secured in tranches across forward markets - calendar years, quarters and months - rather than fixed at one moment. Large- and small-consumer connections sit in the same position.
The three layers are what we put in place; these four steps are the order we work in, repeated continuously rather than only at renewal. We measure before we advise, because steering without measuring is guessing.
We read the quarter-hour data of every connection - the smart meter's own interval register on a small-consumer site, the metering company on a large-consumer one - and set it against the limit that applies: the GTV, or the connection rating.
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One purchasing approach for everything you run: fixed, tranches, or a deliberate combination. A single store is not too small for it - one small-consumer connection joins the same position as a hundred large-consumer ones.
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We hold the position in the market within the mandate you set. A chain's board and a single owner set it the same way; only the volume differs.
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Continuous monitoring of every connection, one or two hundred. A connection drifting toward its limit, or an obligation coming due, is flagged while there is still time to act.
Read moreNo promise in percentages. Three things that today depend on which location you look at, and afterwards do not.
Every connection under one position and one report. Contracts align as each reaches its own renewal rather than by breaking them all open; one with an early-termination penalty is left alone until its end date.
Per connection, how much room is left against the GTV or the connection rating. That is the difference between a charge point or a store opening that stalls on an upgrade request, and one filed in time.
The energy-saving information obligation, an EED audit and a customer's request draw on the same quarter-hour values and meter readings. Which of them apply depends on your size; the data underneath does not.
What it is worth in your case depends on your profile, your connections and your contract positions. That is what the first step establishes.
One day profile says more than a stack of monthly invoices. We start by reading yours: what the load is made of, and how close the connection runs to its limit.
No obligation. Your load profile, capacity per connection and market exposure.
A selection from our solutions that ties in with the questions on this page. Each one explains what it is, who it is for and how the work runs.
All locations bought as one portfolio, with one strategy.
Your real consumption per quarter hour, instead of one annual figure.
Where peaks drive your bill and block your growth.
Volumes secured step by step instead of on one decisive day.
Charging infrastructure that fits your connection, without a heavier one.
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