The $17,500-a-year increase that never arrived.
A Main Street professional-services firm in Lewisville was months from rolling onto the local market rate. This is the math that was waiting for them — and the contract that beat it.
- 500,000 kWh
- Annual usage, one Lewisville site
- $17,500/yr
- Increase avoided by fixing the rate
- 20–35%
- Savings vs market drift over the term
Situation → exposure → structure → result
- 1
The situation
A professional-services firm a few blocks from our own office in Lewisville, using roughly 500,000 kWh a year across one site. Energy had never been anyone’s job: the contract auto-renewed, the bills got paid, and nobody looked at the rate.
- 2
The exposure
Their legacy rate was around 8.0¢/kWh — about $40,000 a year. But the local market for office and professional businesses had drifted to roughly 11.5¢/kWh, and the contract was months from expiring into it. Same usage, same building: $57,500 a year. That’s a $17,500 increase just for standing still — multiplied over 3–5 years, a margin killer.
- 3
What UPG did
We ran their bill through a free Energy Health Check: TDSP delivery charges reviewed, renewal window mapped, usage profiled. Then we priced the load across our supplier panel and locked a multi-year fixed rate well below the drifting market rate — timed to start the day the old contract ended, so no early termination fee was triggered.
- 4
The result
The $17,500-a-year cliff never arrived. The firm budgets one known energy number for the life of the term — 20–35% below where market drift was taking them — with no seasonal guesswork, no equipment, no site work, and renewal alerts already scheduled for next time.
What standing still would have cost
Unhedged energy is a margin killer precisely because nothing visibly breaks — the business just quietly pays more every month. Fixing the rate turned the energy line back into a number the firm chooses, not one the market assigns.
About this case study
Fix now. Save long. No infrastructure required.
We're ready to help businesses in Lewisville, The Colony and across Denton County take back control of their energy bills. Send one recent bill and we'll show you your version of this math — free.