We are all constant consumers. We start our morning by buying our daily coffee, maybe grabbing a newspaper and a breakfast sandwich. We buy food for dinner and clothes for the family. And of course, we also have to make those big purchases on occasion;...
This winter is starting off as one of the coldest winters on record. Energy costs are escalating daily. We have no choice but to pay if we want to keep our homes and offices (and the people inside them) warm. But how do you know...
My colleagues and I were the first group of brokers to sell deregulated natural gas in Pennsylvania. Electricity would deregulate many years later in 2010 and 2011 with rate cap expirations. Many years and many grey hairs later, the number one question we get remains...
Albireo has spent years working on a simple problem. How do you take the plethora of available utility information and analyze it to create easy and actionable items? Ultimately, every customer wants to reduce risk, get better results, and save time. That is a common...
The number one question we get from customers is “When is the best time to buy my energy?” Customers have been advised by other suppliers and brokers that the best months to enter future contracts are April, as summer approaches, or October, in anticipation of winter....
Albireo started out years ago with the objective of making utility reporting easy to access and even easier to understand. Our initial dashboard was designed for property managers who have a multitude of daily priorities and many systems they must access to obtain critical information...
Albireo was created on one premise -to build a brokerage firm where energy could be purchased efficiently and effectively. Our goal is to find a path to the best price, from the best supplier, for the best group of accounts, and to reward our clients...
As a business owner, why should you care about energy budgets? Can’t you just add a 5% increase to last year’s expenses and be good to go? Unfortunately, the answer is, no. This mindset can cause big problems when reconciling one year to the next....
In 2009, when Albireo began its mission to build a better and more scalable energy platform, we were in a very different place in the energy markets. Electric deregulation has just begun in the Northeast and customers were confused by electric choice and unsure whether there...
So many energy suppliers and consultants claim they are the best option for purchasing energy. How can you evaluate who is best, other than running an RFP and comparing everyone’s pricing? Furthermore, even if you decided to compete your energy purchasing, would you be buying...