How Termina can reduce your business gas and electricity costs
We’re not an energy broker, We’re better
Our vision at Termina is to create a system where businesses get paid from their energy assets instead of paying for energy. We achieve this by identifying and implementing energy savings that can be reinvested into further energy upgrades, creating a flywheel effect of continuous reinvestment leading to more savings and eventually energy independence.
Here’s how we do it:
Savings Split Model
- Earnings Tied to Savings: Our earnings are directly tied to the savings we secure for you, ensuring transparency and fairness with no hidden fees or commissions.
- Prioritising Long-Term Benefits: We focus on continuous savings opportunities, putting your long-term benefits over immediate gains.
- Aligned Interests: Unlike traditional brokers who prioritise their commissions, our savings split model aligns our interests with yours.
- We Avoid Biassed Recommendations: Traditional brokers often give biased recommendations based on commission. This isn’t a problem at Termina, as we avoid bias by refusing commissions and aligning our goals with your savings.
- Comprehensive Energy Management: Using our unique model, we reduce business electricity and gas costs and provide comprehensive energy management services, ensuring transparency, long-term savings, and simplified processes for businesses.
Simplified Energy Management
- One Platform for All Needs: We provide a single platform to manage all your energy needs, which we have found has been pivotal to simplifying the process.
- Skin in the Game: We work in your best interest, offering dedicated support and ensuring our goals align with yours.
- Streamlined Management: Managing energy can be complex and time-consuming, but our integrated platform streamlines energy management.
- Usage Monitoring: Easily monitor your energy usage and identify areas for savings opportunities effortlessly.
- Visualise Savings: Our platform helps you effortlessly identify savings opportunities, ensuring ongoing reductions in energy costs.
How we helped Betty’s Burgers save $104K per year on gas and electricity
One of our clients, Betty’s Burgers, faced significant challenges with their energy management. They grappled with challenges such as opening new stores, avoiding price hikes, and managing over 100 energy accounts.
Betty’s Burgers Operations Manager, Thomas Gunter, said "Energy is too hard for one person to manage, so having Termina manage it for us is a lot easier than negotiating with several companies ourselves."
Here’s how we helped:
Rapid Responses and Efficient Energy Management: We took over the management of all energy accounts, saving time and effort for their team. Our quick and effective responses to all their requests addressed issues quickly. This eased the burden of dealing with slow direct service from other energy retailers.
Negotiations for Better Gas and Electricity Rates: We conducted ongoing negotiations for better rates, ensuring long-term savings and reducing the complexity of handling multiple energy accounts. By prioritising Betty’s Burgers' needs over commissions, we secured the best possible rates for gas and electricty. Smiles all round!
4 of 4- Compare business energy plans
Many businesses know they’re probably overpaying for electricity and gas, they just don’t know how to fix it.
So they start searching for ways to compare business energy plans.
Often, this leads to energy consultants or procurement brokers who offer to “go to market” on their behalf. While this can be helpful, it is not always the most effective way to secure long-term savings.
Today, the best-performing businesses don’t just compare energy once.
They actively manage energy pricing continuously.
This is where automated energy procurement changes the equation.
How Businesses Traditionally Compare Energy Prices
When a business wants to reduce electricity costs, they usually choose one of three approaches:
- Contact their existing retailer
- Use an energy comparison service
- Hire an energy procurement consultant
Most medium-sized and multi-site businesses choose the third option, a commercial energy consultant.
These consultants run a tender, collect offers from retailers and recommend a contract.
But how they get paid matters.
The Two Types of Energy Procurement Consultants
Energy consultants typically operate under two business models.
1. Commission-Based Consultants
Many consultants are paid by energy retailers.
From the business perspective this feels free, there is no upfront cost.
However, the payment structure affects the advice.
Retailers pay different commissions, so the consultant is financially incentivised to recommend contracts that pay the highest brokerage margin.
In practice this leads to:
• limited retailer comparisons
• preference for large retailers
• infrequent switching
• higher long-term pricing
You may think you are comparing the market, but you are often only comparing a short list of preferred suppliers.
2. Fee-Based Consultants
Some procurement consultants charge a flat fee for running a tender.
This removes commission bias, but introduces a different problem.
Their income does not depend on the savings achieved.
Whether they save you $5,000 or $50,000, the fee is the same.
Because the process is manual, gathering data, contacting retailers, analysing tariffs, it can also be expensive. In some cases, the consultant’s fee can exceed the savings found.
And once the contract is signed, the process usually stops until renewal.
The Limitation of One-Time Energy Comparison
Electricity pricing in Australia changes frequently due to:
• wholesale market movements
• generation availability
• network tariff updates
• seasonal demand
• policy changes
A competitive contract today can become uncompetitive months later.
Traditional procurement is a snapshot in time.
Businesses tender → sign → wait 12–24 months → tender again.
During that period, there is usually no active optimisation.
Automated Energy Procurement: A Different Model
Termina replaces one-time comparison with continuous optimisation.
Instead of periodically comparing retailers, Termina automatically reviews your pricing every month across every electricity and gas meter.
What the platform does
• compares commercial electricity rates
• monitors market pricing movements
• renegotiates contracts
• switches retailers when savings exist
• leverages group buying power across thousands of meters
Rather than running an energy tender every year, the system is always running.
No Retailer Commissions
Termina does not accept commissions from energy retailers.
Instead, we operate on a savings-share model.
We earn a portion of the savings we generate.
That means:
Traditional consultant incentive → place a contract
Termina incentive → continually reduce your costs
If savings stop, we stop getting paid.
Our interests stay aligned with yours.
Group Buying Power
Because Termina manages thousands of business meters across Australia, we can negotiate bulk agreements with retailers.
This provides two advantages:
When market prices drop → businesses move onto lower rates quickly
When market prices rise → previously secured agreements provide protection
The result is ongoing electricity and gas optimisation instead of periodic procurement.
Multi-Site Energy Management
Businesses operating across multiple locations face additional complexity:
• different contracts per site
• multiple retailers
• varied renewal dates
• inconsistent tariffs
A traditional consultant may coordinate a tender across sites, but only at renewal.
Termina provides ongoing multi-site energy procurement, managing every meter continuously and centralising reporting, pricing and contract management.
This reduces administrative workload while improving pricing consistency across locations.
Why Businesses Are Moving Away from Traditional Procurement
Businesses are increasingly treating energy like any other managed operating expense, similar to payments, payroll or cloud software.
Instead of negotiating once and hoping for the best, they want ongoing optimisation.
Automated procurement removes:
• renewal risk
• pricing drift
• contract rollovers
• retailer dependency
And replaces it with continuous cost control.
Get a Business Energy Savings Estimate
If you want someone actively working to reduce your electricity and gas costs, not just running a tender, Termina provides ongoing energy optimisation.
There are:
• no lock-in contracts
• no entry fees
• no exit fees
You only pay if savings are achieved.
Request a savings estimate and see how much your business could reduce its energy spend.
