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Description

Energy Consumption and Procurement: Monitoring Usage, Contracting and Trade-Offs

Connecting consumption monitoring with supply strategy to bring energy spend under control

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

The energy bill is determined in two places: in how the site actually consumes, and in the contracts that have been signed. Many organisations optimise one while ignoring the other, renew supply agreements under time pressure without a reliable load profile, and later discover contracted capacity mismatches or poorly valued cost components.

Two days to connect both sides: load profile analysis, invoice verification, the structure of supply offers, negotiation, and the trade-off between buying better and consuming less. This session focuses on procurement and complements the programmes dedicated to organising the energy function.

Learning objectives

  • Build a site load profile from the data available
  • Verify an energy invoice and identify poorly adjusted cost components
  • Break down a supply offer and compare proposals on a consistent basis
  • Select a supply strategy suited to the load profile and to risk tolerance
  • Balance action on consumption patterns against contract negotiation

What makes this programme different

Participants analyse their own invoices and identify contracted capacity mismatches
Three supply offers are compared using a common assessment grid built during the session
A renewal negotiation is role-played under calendar pressure

Programme

1Knowing Your Load Profile

Buying well requires knowing how you consume

  • Rebuilding the consumption profile from meter readings
  • Contracted capacity
  • demand peaks and seasonality
  • Breakdown across time bands and tariff periods
  • Quality of available data and additional information to obtain

2Reading and Verifying Invoices

Checking what you pay for line by line

  • Invoice structure and the nature of each component
  • Supply charges
  • network charges and levies
  • The most frequently encountered errors and anomalies
  • Budget monitoring and variances between forecast and actual
  • Raising and pursuing a claim with the supplier

3Understanding Supply Offers

Comparing without being led by the headline price alone

  • Fixed
  • indexed and hybrid pricing structures
  • Price fixing mechanisms and decision windows
  • Contractual clauses and volume commitments
  • Certificates of origin and offers with environmental attributes
  • Building a consistent comparison grid

4Negotiating and Making Trade-Offs

Deciding between buying better and consuming less

  • Preparing the tender file and the timetable
  • Conducting the negotiation and identifying what is genuinely negotiable
  • Allocation of risk between supplier and customer
  • Weighing contractual savings against savings on consumption
  • Contract monitoring and review milestones

Who is it for

Buyers · energy managers · facilities managers · management controllers and technical managers responsible for energy contracts.

Prerequisites

Some initial experience of monitoring consumption or managing energy contracts within your organisation.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.