About Inertia Resources

What a commercial energy broker actually does

The short version: we buy energy for businesses that do not have a person whose job is buying energy. The longer version is that procurement is only the visible part. Buying electricity and natural gas competitively is straightforward once someone has built a defensible load profile, screened the suppliers, run every bid to identical terms on the same day and normalized the results. Most of the value is in the work either side of that: knowing before the bid whether procurement is even the right lever, and making sure afterwards that the contract behaves the way it was supposed to.

That is why the service list is longer than "get quotes". Rate analysis frequently shows that the competitive slice of a bill is smaller than the client assumed, which redirects the work to rate class and demand charges instead. Bill auditing recovers money already spent rather than only reducing future cost. Renewal management exists because the most expensive thing that happens to commercial energy buyers is a contract quietly rolling to a holdover rate. Telling a client their contract is fine and their meter configuration is wrong is a worse sales outcome and a better answer, and a firm's willingness to do that is most of what distinguishes an advisor from a reseller.

How we are paid, and why it is worth asking

Suppliers pay a fixed, disclosed per-unit fee on contracted volume. It does not vary by which supplier is selected, and it is not added on top of your rate — the same supplier quotes the same price whether you come through us or go to them directly.

The reason to state that plainly is that the alternative is common and invisible. A broker paid a different amount by different suppliers is being paid to have an opinion, and the client cannot see which opinion was bought. A broker whose fee scales with the rate has a direct interest in a higher rate. Neither arrangement is illegal and neither is disclosed by default, which is why how to choose an energy broker leads with compensation questions, and why energy broker vs energy consultant is worth reading before deciding which model fits your situation. Our verified numbers, coverage and founding details are collected on the company facts page.

Who we work with

Around 4,000 commercial and industrial clients, from single sites to multi-state portfolios. The work looks different depending on what a facility is: manufacturers and metals producers where demand charges dominate; retail chains and multifamily portfolios where the gain is aggregation; health systems and data centers where reliability constrains everything; and schools, public bodies and nonprofits where an appropriated budget sets the risk tolerance. The full list is on the industries page.

Geographically we work across the deregulated markets — Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan and the rest listed on the markets page — and in regulated and municipal territories such as Austin and San Antonio, where there is no supplier to switch to and the savings come from tariff, demand and efficiency work instead. What that produced on real accounts is set out in the case studies.