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Founded
by Don Fowler in 1985, Fowler Energy is an engineering
firm at heart. By taking an engineering approach to
energy procurement, we have been able to develop and
analyze a large variety of competitive energy alternatives for our clients
to reduce delivered energy costs. Fowler has
developed tailored energy procurement strategies
for over 20 years and, through cost analysis,
identified, evaluated and developed various energy
procurement alternatives on a site specific basis. Even
in otherwise regulated monopoly environments, results
were then used as bargaining tools to "create
competition".
Fowler
Energy originally applied this methodology to natural
gas procurement. Using this approach, we were able
to lower clients' transportation,
or obtain it where none was
previously offered.
It
was a natural progression for Fowler Energy to aggregate
the natural gas loads of our clients using competitive
bidding. Aggregated bidding produces better resultant
pricing than clients could obtain alone.
In 1993, we applied the same "developed alternatives" methodology to
electric procurement services and began negotiating electric
contracts for our
clients. We were able to save our clients over $20 million during the
regulated electricity period in Texas. With the advent of deregulation
in 2001, we have
continued to reduce costs for our clients through
competitive electric procurement, grouping end users
where possible, requesting competitive bids from all
qualified suppliers, and reducing "wires" and metering
fees from the regulated utilities.. |