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Jul 18, 2025

How a family-owned ELC joined Termina’s buying group to stay on the lowest prices and streamline admin

$8k

Energy cost savings

23

Price changes avoided automatically

0

Energy admin
Birches Early Learning Centre
Industry
Childcare
Locations
7
Solutions at a glance
  • Over $8k in energy cost savings
  • 23 price changes avoided with our proactive procurement
  • Streamlining energy admin and new location openings.
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Michael Koopman
Co-Founder & CEO @ Termina

The Challenge:

When Birches ELC is committed to ‘raising the bar’ in early education, energy isn’t the top of the priority list.

But when energy is still a significant cost for a multi-site ELC group like Birches, it’s important to find a partner who can stay on top of energy prices while streamlining admin.

That way the team can focus on what’s most important: nurturing curious minds.

The Solution:

Birches joined Termina’s Energy Buying Group to automate energy savings while eliminating energy admin

Birches now automatically stays on the lowest prices in Termina’s buying group. On top of leveraging volume discounts from energy retailers, Birches now has a dashboard where they can access all of their invoices, track their usage, spend and emissions.

And the finance team can leverage the reports generated from Termina to help streamline internal finance, AP and operations.

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The ongoing results:

Termina saves 8% of energy costs and dozens of admin hours saved

  • Over $8k in energy cost savings
  • 23 price changes avoided with our proactive procurement
  • Streamlining energy admin and new location openings.

Termina is working well when the team and I don’t have to think about it. We come to them when we open new locations, knowing they’ll sort it.
Jack Kroger
Co-founder & CEO @ Birches Early Learning Centre
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