The challenge
Harbour Healthcare runs a large, geographically spread care estate — more than fifty sites, each with its own meter, contract end date and consumption profile. Like many multi-site operators, the group had defaulted to fixed-rate contracts renewed site by site. That approach is simple to administer but expensive: it locks in whole-of-contract prices at a single point in time, gives no visibility into the wholesale market, and leaves a large estate exposed to whatever the day of renewal happens to look like.
With energy one of the largest controllable costs across the portfolio, the group wanted more than a cheaper renewal. It wanted choice, transparency and genuine control over how and when energy was bought.
Our approach
We moved the estate off rolling fixed-rate contracts and onto a flexible procurement framework, consolidating the sites so they could be bought as one book rather than fifty separate renewals. That alone changed the group’s buying power. On top of it, we applied AI-optimised buying windows — using our market tooling to time purchasing decisions against the forward curve rather than against contract expiry dates.
The result was a procurement strategy the group could see into and steer, instead of a series of one-off renewals negotiated in isolation.
The result
Across the estate, the shift delivered a 27% reduction in energy costs — around £775,000 — while giving the group the transparency and control it had been missing.
“ENERGYbubble approached us with an alternative energy procurement strategy that allowed us more choice, transparency and control over our energy costs. This has resulted in significant savings.”
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