Energy is one of the largest controllable operating costs in property.  Left unmanaged, it absorbs management time, undermines competitiveness, and increases regulatory risk.

1Circle’s Portfolio Energy Management service takes end-to-end responsibility for energy cost and contract performance, so your team is freed from the complexity while remaining fully informed.

Our service delivers across an annual operational life-cycle and includes:

• Rigorous budgeting and management reporting that tracks actual cost against forecast at every level — meter, site, brand, entity, state and portfolio
• Validated bills and authorised payment recommendations – every invoice is checked before it is paid
• Contract management ensures changes in scope are efficiently applied
• Network tariff management ensures the lowest available rate is always applied
• Mandatory ESG and emissions reporting (NGERS, EWS, ASRS) prepared and lodged
• Continuous identification and tracking of cost reduction opportunities
• Bi-annual market intelligence updates to keep leadership informed on energy price direction and portfolio competitiveness

Energy expenditure at large sites and across commercial portfolios runs into the millions. Without systematic management, we find:

• overpayments are made
• contracted tariffs and charges are uncompetitive
• budgets and actuals significantly diverge
• forecasts don’t reflect operations
• unactioned efficiency opportunities accumulate.

Our work with Spotlight Group Holdings, QIC and others illustrates 10% improvement opportunity is achievable, and benefits can be realistically be realised over 18-24 months.

1Circle’s Portfolio Energy Management service covers the full scope of a property portfolio’s energy obligations:

• Bill validation and payment authorisation
• Retailer contract management and site roll-in/roll-out
• Network tariff optimisation — evaluated annually against the published regulated tariff schedule
• Energy budgeting and ongoing variance reporting
• Embedded network management and tariff review
• Solar generation reporting integrated into portfolio cost reporting
• ESG emissions data preparation and regulatory submission
• Energy efficiency benchmarking by site, with identification of excess consumption

All reporting is delivered through a dedicated energy portal using 1Circle’s Portfolio Energy Portal based on Microsoft SharePoint and Power BI, giving stakeholders interactive access to portfolio, brand, state and site-level data — from executive summary through to detailed cash flow and billing records.

We take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. A dedicated senior energy analyst is assigned to your portfolio and serves as a single point of contact for day-to-day management, escalations and retailer communications.

Our process policies are designed to protect your organisation: bills are processed weekly, discrepancies are raised and logged immediately, and tariff reviews are conducted at the same time each year so changes are captured and implemented without delay.

1Circle’s experience ranges from individual sites to large portfolios of single and multiple entities across multiple States and Territories.  Example credentials include:

For further information contact 1circle