Competitive Energy Services LLC

Competitive Energy Services ('CES') provides strategic energy consulting services to commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional customers throughout the United States and Canada. CES manages energy procurement activities on behalf of clients for electricity, natural gas, oil, propane and biomass using unparalleled market insight and a powerful, multi-supplier competitive bid system. 

Our professionals will help you with fuel conversion or cogeneration economics evaluations, risk management, hedging strategies, utility cost management and many other energy related questions you may have.

CES advises clients on sustainability issues such as: greenhouse gas accounting and management; climate action planning; renewable energy procurement; energy efficiency evaluations; carbon offset procurement; and, onsite heat and power due diligence.

Competitive Energy Services, LLC (“CES”) is an independent energy services company that advises the commercial, industrial, institutional, and non-profit sectors in managing energy costs in the competitive energy marketplace.  CES was founded in 2000 by career energy professionals and now serves over 2,500 accounts across North America.

CES works with over 50 pre-qualified suppliers and provides a transparent and robust procurement process that is completely supplier neutral. CES’s energy under management in New England is one of the largest in the region.

CES provides a broad variety of strategic energy management services, such as procurement, risk management, budgeting, and fuel arbitrage. CES’s integrated, innovative and customized solutions help clients manage risks and maximize savings in the rapidly changing energy marketplace.  CES serves its diverse client base from its headquarters in Portland, Maine.

Competitive bid-based energy procurement is at the heart of what CES provides our clients.  We source energy for our clients using a transparent and robust competitive bid-based procurement service utilizing dozens of pre-approved suppliers, informed by market intelligence and conducted by seasoned energy market veterans. CES customizes our procurement services to the needs of our clients, offering some of the most sophisticated pricing products in the industry. Commodities we procure include:

• Electricity
• Natural Gas
• Liquid Fuels (Propane, Residual Oil, Heating Oil, Biofuels)
• Renewable Energy Credits (RECs)
• Biomass

We maintain complex databases and software interface that we use to store, audit, query and analyze vast amount of data in creative ways. We utilize a procurement process that promotes competitiveness among suppliers to ensure that our clients achieve the best deals available in today's energy markets, regardless of which suppliers are offering them.

• Sealed-bid process ensures best prices
• Bids are requested directly from supplier pricing desks, eliminating the margins that suppliers build in for their retail sales teams
• CES computer generated supplier feedback drives supplier margins lower while encouraging strong supplier participation

CES has established business relationships with nearly all of the major energy suppliers that are active in the North American power market. CES routinely evaluates suppliers on behalf of our clients to ensure that each has good credit, honors contract terms and provides accurate and complete billing services to its customers.  CES is 100% supplier-neutral and puts the client’s interest first and foremost in our procurement process.