Dan Moat, Author at Vervantis Inc.

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How To Buy Energy – The Guide To Commercial Energy Procurement

How To Buy Energy For Your Business You are most likely a category buyer responsible for indirect procurement. Energy is unlike other indirect spends so if you’re not familiar with buying energy or utility sourcing processes, this article will help provide some high-level guidance. Because energy is a commodity, it brings a number of additional risks and price considerations less prevalent in other areas of the supply chain. Companies can either buy energy directly from energy suppliers or through the [...]

August 7, 2019 Blog, Energy Procurement, Natural Gas, risk management, Vervantis blog, energy markets, energy procurement, risk management solutions, utility management software, Vervantis, wholesale energy pricing

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What is Utility Bill Management?

What is Utility Bill Management? In simple terms, it’s the streamlining of utility expense management. Utility bill processing, payment and management has become one of the most time-consuming areas for the accounts payable department of medium and large enterprises. Every site will typically have four utility accounts. As you increase the number of locations, the resources and vendors required will increase, thus increasing the time and cost needed to manage them. So what can be done to streamline processing, improve validation [...]

August 2, 2019 Blog, budgets, Utility Account Administration, Utility Bill Management blog, closed utility accounts, mediuim-size companies, open close utility accounts, utility account admin, Utility Bill Administration

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Going Green – How to be a Sustainable Small Business.

Going Green is very often the headline associated with the worlds largest corporations, who recognize not only the environmental benefits of taking a more sustainable approach to business, but also the commercial too. In the same way that households seek out more organic produce at the market, commercial buyers are becoming more and more attracted to companies who have demonstratably greener credentials. Research across the globe confirms the benefit of going green to businesses and customers, putting any question of [...]

July 16, 2019 Blog, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Vervantis Dan Moat, going green, small business, sustainability, Vervantis

100 % Solar

Vervantis advice goes green with its electricity now coming from 100 percent solar generation. President Dan Moat was delighted to add renewable energy to the long list of measures they have been putting in place to become a more sustainable company. Following the recent relocation of Vervantis operations center to larger premises, it became posssible to make upgrades to the building envelope, electrical equipment and controls. On completion of the building works, Vervantis entered an agreement with utility SRP that [...]

June 1, 2019 Company News, generation. storage. efficiency, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Vervantis company news, Dan Moat, green advice, renewable energy, sustainability, Vervantis

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CA Building Energy Benchmarking

California Building Energy Benchmarking Program CA Building Energy Benchmarking Program passed into law in October 2015 following the success of Assembly Bill 802 in California. The Building Energy Benchmarking Program is California’s new program requiring building owners to track and report their energy usage with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mandatory reporting began in 2018 for buildings with no residential utility accounts and more than 50,000 square feet of gross floor area. For buildings with 17 or more residential utility [...]

March 1, 2019 Blog, regulation, Vervantis regulation, Vervantis

Author - Dan Moat

How To Buy Energy – The Guide To Commercial Energy Procurement

What is Utility Bill Management?

Going Green – How to be a Sustainable Small Business.

100 % Solar

CA Building Energy Benchmarking