Healthcare Energy Management in the New York City

Zone J is its own market. New York City is transmission-constrained, so wholesale energy, capacity and ancillary costs all clear well above the rest of the state — a Buffalo business and a Manhattan business on the same Con Edison-style tariff would still pay materially different amounts, and the difference is the zone. Capacity alone is a large enough line item in Zone J that how it is treated in a supply contract often matters more than the energy price. Con Edison remains the delivery utility whoever supplies you, and the delivery charge is separately regulated, which means an ESCO offer quoting only the supply portion is describing well under half your bill.

Healthcare is one of the sectors that over-indexes in this territory — commercial real estate, hospital systems, hospitality, food production and multifamily portfolios make up the bulk of commercial load here, so suppliers already understand the shape and price it competitively when it is presented properly. A constant high load with minimal fluctuation profile at 800,000+ kWh/month is the specific thing we take to market, and the contract structure follows from it: fixed, indexed, or block-and-index, sized to your actual baseload rather than to a nameplate figure.