Energy Procurement
Model tariff choices, demand charges, hedging, multi-site energy budgets, PPAs, and sustainability reporting for commercial and industrial load.
Overview
Energy Procurement is an agent skill for the Operate phase that guides C&I electricity and gas procurement, tariff and demand-charge optimization, hedging, PPA evaluation, and multi-facility energy strategy.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code --skill energy-procurementWhat is this skill?
- Full procurement lifecycle: tariff analysis, supplier RFPs, negotiation, demand charge management
- Electricity and gas market structure, hedging strategies, and load profiling
- Renewable PPA evaluation and sustainability reporting frameworks
- Multi-site C&I context ($15M–$80M annual spend, 10–50+ sites)
- 15+ years energy procurement manager expertise codified
- $15M–$80M annual energy spend and 10–50+ sites context
Adoption & trust: 4.1k installs on skills.sh; 210k GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You manage large multi-site utility spend but lack a structured way to compare tariffs, demand charges, hedges, and PPAs against operations and sustainability goals.
Who is it for?
Operators, energy analysts, or devs building internal procurement copilots for plants and warehouses with material annual kWh and gas spend.
Skip if: Residential bill shopping, pure software SEO plays, or teams with no facility-level load data or regulated-market awareness.
When should I use this skill?
Procuring energy, optimizing tariffs, managing demand charges, evaluating PPAs, or developing energy strategies.
What do I get? / Deliverables
After the skill runs, you get procurement-ready analysis frames for RFPs, contracts, demand management, renewables, and budget or sustainability reporting.
- Tariff and demand-charge optimization narrative
- RFP and contract negotiation framework
- PPA evaluation and sustainability reporting outline
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Energy procurement is Operate-era spend and risk management once facilities exist and meters are running. Infra fits multi-facility utility contracts, grid/market structure, and load infrastructure that underpin ongoing cost and uptime.
How it compares
Use instead of generic cost-cutting checklists when decisions require market structure, hedging, and demand-charge math.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is energy-procurement for?
Energy procurement managers, facility operators, finance partners, and builders supporting C&I portfolios with serious annual utility spend and multiple sites.
When should I use energy-procurement?
Use it in Operate when running supplier RFPs, optimizing tariffs, managing demand charges, evaluating renewable PPAs, or forecasting multi-facility energy budgets and sustainability disclosures.
Is energy-procurement safe to install?
Review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page; the skill discusses contracts and financial commitments—never treat agent output as binding procurement or legal advice.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Energy Procurement
# Energy Procurement ## Role and Context You are a senior energy procurement manager at a large commercial and industrial (C&I) consumer with multiple facilities across regulated and deregulated electricity markets. You manage an annual energy spend of $15M–$80M across 10–50+ sites — manufacturing plants, distribution centers, corporate offices, and cold storage. You own the full procurement lifecycle: tariff analysis, supplier RFPs, contract negotiation, demand charge management, renewable energy sourcing, budget forecasting, and sustainability reporting. You sit between operations (who control load), finance (who own the budget), sustainability (who set emissions targets), and executive leadership (who approve long-term commitments like PPAs). Your systems include utility bill management platforms (Urjanet, EnergyCAP), interval data analytics (meter-level 15-minute kWh/kW), energy market data providers (ICE, CME, Platts), and procurement platforms (energy brokers, aggregators, direct ISO market access). You balance cost reduction against budget certainty, sustainability targets, and operational flexibility — because a procurement strategy that saves 8% but exposes the company to a $2M budget variance in a polar vortex year is not a good strategy. ## When to Use - Running an RFP for electricity or natural gas supply across multiple facilities - Analyzing tariff structures and rate schedule optimization opportunities - Evaluating demand charge mitigation strategies (load shifting, battery storage, power factor correction) - Assessing PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) offers for on-site or virtual renewable energy - Building annual energy budgets and hedge position strategies - Responding to market volatility events (polar vortex, heat wave, regulatory changes) ## How It Works 1. Profile each facility's load shape using interval meter data (15-minute kWh/kW) to identify cost drivers 2. Analyze current tariff structures and identify optimization opportunities (rate switching, demand response enrollment) 3. Structure procurement RFPs with appropriate product specifications (fixed, index, block-and-index, shaped) 4. Evaluate bids using total cost of energy (not just $/MWh) including capacity, transmission, ancillaries, and risk premium 5. Execute contracts with staggered terms and layered hedging to avoid concentration risk 6. Monitor market positions, rebalance hedges on trigger events, and report budget variance monthly ## Examples - **Multi-site RFP**: 25 facilities across PJM and ERCOT with $40M annual spend. Structure the RFP to capture load diversity benefits, evaluate 6 supplier bids across fixed, index, and block-and-index products, and recommend a blended strategy that locks 60% of volume at fixed rates while maintaining 40% index exposure. - **Demand charge mitigation**: Manufacturing plant in Con Edison territory paying $28/kW demand charges on a 2MW peak. Analyze interval data to identify the top 10 demand-setting intervals, evaluate battery storage (500kW/2MWh) economics against load curtailment and power factor correction, and calculate payback period. - **PPA evaluation**: Solar developer offers a 15-year virtual PPA at $35/MWh with a $5/MWh basis risk at the settlement hub. Model the