Commercial energy procurement
You signed once. The contract has been renewing itself ever since.
Markoron reads your electricity and gas invoices, solicits live pricing from licensed suppliers in your market, and executes the switch. Same utility, same meter, same service. A different number at the bottom of the bill.
- Review fee
- $0
- Turnaround
- 48h
- Downtime
- None
Rate comparison
Illustrative| You are paying | 0.0912 /kWh |
|---|---|
| Market, this week | 0.0781 /kWh |
| Difference | 0.0131 /kWh |
On 400,000 kWh a year, that difference is $5,240 left on the table. Your figure depends on your usage and the week you sign.
Example only. Markoron does not guarantee a saving, and will tell you when your current rate is already competitive.
01 Terms of engagement
What this costs you, stated plainly.
A broker is only useful if you can see how they are paid. Ours is on the page.
| Item | Terms |
|---|---|
| Account review Rate, tariff class, meter multipliers, contract end date. | No charge |
| Our compensation A margin inside the rate, paid by the supplier you choose. Disclosed on every option we present. | Supplier-paid |
| Who holds the contract Between your business and the supplier. We are not a party to it. | You |
| Service interruption Your utility still owns the wires and reads the meter. Nothing is switched off. | None |
| If we cannot beat your rate Staying put is a legitimate outcome. We put it in writing either way. | We say so |
| Leaving us No lock-in on our side. Take the next renewal elsewhere if you want to. | Any renewal |
02 What actually changes
One link in the chain. Nothing else moves.
The most common question we get is whether the lights go out during a switch. They do not. Switching supplier changes who sells you the energy, not who delivers it.
Step 01
Generation
Power stations, wind, gas fields.
Unchanged
Step 02
Supply
Who sells you the energy, and at what rate.
This is what we change
Step 03
Delivery
Your utility’s wires, pipes and meter. Same crews, same outage number.
Unchanged
Step 04
Your site
Same meter, same service. One line on the invoice reads differently.
Unchanged
Your utility remains responsible for outages, emergencies, meter reads and the physical connection, whoever supplies your energy. That obligation is set by state regulation, not by your supply contract, and no broker can alter it.
03 Why the bill drifts
Nobody renegotiates. Suppliers price accordingly.
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01
Rollover rates
When a term ends most contracts drop onto a variable holdover rate. It is rarely the best number available, and it renews quietly.
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02
The week you signed
Wholesale prices move daily. Signing on a bad week can cost more over a term than choosing the wrong supplier entirely.
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03
Charges below the headline
Pass-through capacity, transmission adders and bandwidth clauses routinely undo a rate that looked cheap on the cover page.
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04
Plain billing errors
Wrong rate class, stale meter multipliers, misapplied tax exemptions. Common, and often recoverable as a credit.
04 Bill review
Seven things we look for on one invoice.
Most of what a business overpays is not on the line everybody looks at. Below is a specimen commercial invoice with the points we check marked on it.
NORTHERN PLAINS POWER
Commercial service
ACCT 4471-9920-03
PERIOD 01–30 JUN
Account
Supply
Delivery — regulated
Taxes
What each mark means
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1
Rate class
GS-2 is not automatically the cheapest class for this load. Being on the wrong tariff can cost more than being with the wrong supplier.
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2
Meter multiplier
A stale multiplier misstates every kilowatt-hour on the invoice. We check it against the meter, not against last month’s bill.
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3
Supply charge
The only line a competitive contract moves. This is the number we shop, and the number our compensation sits inside.
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4
Distribution
Set by your utility and identical whoever supplies you. Anyone promising to cut this line is selling you something else.
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5
Transmission & capacity
Often passed through separately rather than fixed. A headline rate that excludes these is not the rate you end up paying.
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6
Tax treatment
Manufacturing, agricultural and non-profit exemptions are routinely missed, and where they apply they are often recoverable retrospectively.
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7
Contract expiry
The rollover date. We begin soliciting the market before it, not after — which is the difference between a chosen rate and a default one.
Specimen figures. Supplier name, account number and amounts are fictional and used to illustrate the layout of a typical commercial invoice.
We do this before you commit to anything. One invoice is enough to tell you whether there is a case to answer.
Send one bill05 Process
Four steps. You do the first one.
One recent invoice per meter, as a photo or a PDF. That is the whole ask on your side.
Send one bill-
01 Send one bill You
A photo or PDF of a recent electricity or gas invoice.
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02 Audit Markoron
The seven points in Exhibit A, plus your usage profile and contract end date.
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03 Solicit the market Markoron
Live pricing from licensed suppliers in your state, compared on total delivered cost rather than headline rate.
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04 Execute Markoron
You choose an option. We file the paperwork and confirm the changeover date with the supplier and utility.
06 Estimator
Arithmetic, not a quote.
This multiplies what you spend by a rate improvement you pick. It is here to show you whether the conversation is worth having. The real number comes off your invoice.
Calculation
| Per month | $320 |
|---|---|
| Per year | $3,840 |
| Over a 36-month term | $11,520 |
Illustration only. Actual savings depend on your usage profile, the market on the day you sign, contract length, and charges your utility passes through. Markoron does not guarantee any specific saving.
07 Scope of work
What we handle.
Electricity procurement
Fixed, indexed or blended supply contracts priced against your actual load shape rather than a class average.
Natural gas supply
Therm pricing, seasonal exposure and balancing terms, reviewed alongside the electricity contract rather than separately.
Invoice audit & recovery
Rate class, meter multipliers, demand charges and tax exemptions checked. Where a utility has billed in error we pursue the credit.
Renewal management
Every contract end date in your portfolio is tracked, and shopping starts before the rollover rate can take hold.
Multi-site aggregation
Locations combined into a single solicitation, so smaller meters are priced on the strength of the whole portfolio.
Contract review
Before signature: pass-through language, bandwidth penalties, early termination terms, and precisely what happens at expiry.
08 Markets
Where a business can choose its supplier.
Retail choice is a matter of state law. In these markets your business may buy energy from a supplier other than the incumbent utility.
- Electricity & gas choice
- Electricity choice
- Gas choice / limited electricity
- Sheridan, Wyoming — our office
Schematic grid, not a geographic map. Each square is one state. Scroll the grid sideways to see every state, or read the table below. Full detail in the table alongside.
| State | Electricity | Natural gas |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | Yes | — |
| Pennsylvania | Yes | Yes |
| Ohio | Yes | Yes |
| Illinois | Yes | Yes |
| New York | Yes | Yes |
| New Jersey | Yes | Yes |
| Massachusetts | Yes | Yes |
| Maryland | Yes | Yes |
| Connecticut | Yes | — |
| Maine | Yes | Yes |
| New Hampshire | Yes | Yes |
| Rhode Island | Yes | — |
| Delaware | Yes | — |
| Michigan | Limited | Yes |
| Washington, D.C. | Yes | Yes |
| Markets served | 15 | |
Note on Wyoming
We are based in Sheridan, but Wyoming is a regulated market — there is no retail choice here and therefore no rate to shop. For a Wyoming business we can still audit the invoice, check the tariff and rate class, and handle procurement for any locations you operate in the states listed here. We will tell you which applies before you spend time on it.
Retail choice programmes change. Confirm eligibility for your specific utility and rate class before relying on this table.
09 Record
Numbers, not quotations.
Testimonials are easy to write and hard to check. These are figures you can ask us to substantiate, and references we will put you in touch with directly.
| To date | Figure |
|---|---|
| Accounts reviewed | 250+ |
| Contracts placed | 100+ |
| Annual client spend under management | $10M+ |
| Median rate improvement | 8.5% |
| Reviews that recommended no change | 12% |
| Operating since | 2021 |
References available on request, by phone, before you send us anything.
10 Who you are dealing with
Portrait — 4:5
One person reads your bill. The same one calls you back.
Markoron is deliberately small. You are not routed to a call centre, and the person who audits your invoice is the person who negotiates on your behalf and who answers when you ring about a charge two years later.
- Principal
- Markoron Team
- Years in energy
- 05+
- Direct line
- (215) 792-2359
Office or Sheridan — 16:9
11 Questions
The ones we always get.
Not covered here? Ask us directly.
The supplier pays us. A margin is built into the rate you sign, which is standard across commercial energy brokerage. We disclose that margin on every option we present, so you are comparing offers on the same basis we are. You are never invoiced by Markoron.
No. Switching supplier changes who sells you the energy, not who delivers it — see Exhibit B above. The same utility owns the wires and pipes, reads the same meter, and stays responsible for outages and emergencies. Nothing is disconnected and nobody visits your site.
Yes. We note your end date and can often lock a forward rate now that begins when your current term expires, which protects you from both the rollover rate and a bad market on your renewal week. We will not advise breaking a contract unless the termination fee is genuinely smaller than the saving.
One recent bill per meter, as a photo or PDF. For multi-site portfolios we may ask for a signed letter of authority so we can pull usage history directly from the utility, which gets you sharper pricing. That is the extent of the administration on your side.
We are based in Sheridan, but Wyoming is a regulated electricity market — there is no retail supplier choice here, so there is no rate to shop. What we can do for a Wyoming business is audit the invoice for errors, confirm you are on the correct tariff and rate class for your usage, and handle procurement for any locations you operate in deregulated states.
No, and the distinction matters. A supplier sells you energy and profits from the rate you pay. A broker solicits several suppliers on your behalf and shows you what came back. We are the second. It is also why we publish how we are compensated — a supplier has no reason to, because their margin is the whole business.
We do not know until we see the bill, and anyone quoting you a percentage beforehand is guessing. It depends on your current rate, when you last signed, your load shape, and where wholesale prices sit that week. Sometimes the answer is that you are already on a good rate and should stay put. We will say so in writing.
12 Open an account review
Send one bill. Find out where you stand.
You will get back a written comparison of what you pay now against what your market will bear this week — including the case for doing nothing, if that is the honest answer.
- info@markoron.com
- Telephone
- (215) 792-2359
- Office
- Sheridan, Wyoming 82801
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 8–5 MT
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