Germany has announced plans to speed up solar expansion
Are you sure you are not wasting €100 000 per year on your energy budget?
For companies with an annual energy spend of around €2 million, commodity and non-commodity combined, savings are often hiding in plain sight.
In practice, organisations achieve an average saving of 8% on the commodity part of their energy budget. Not through luck or market timing, but through structure.
Those savings typically come from three levers:
- Contract tendering
- Click strategy
- Invoice control
Yet one lever is underestimated.
Clicks without a strategy feel active, but reduce control.
Most click decisions happen reactively.
Prices rise. Budgets come under pressure. A click is made.
It feels like active management.
In reality, there is no predefined decision framework.
Each click becomes a one-off decision.
Uncertainty increases. Budget control decreases.
Depending on market conditions and risk profile, power and gas click moments makes up to a 20% difference in the commodity price.
“The misunderstanding about click strategy is that it’s a choice between fully fixed or fully floating. The real value lies in between. By aligning click moments with budget targets and risk appetite, you build a unit price that leaves room to benefit from market evolutions.”
Volatility is not the enemy. Disorganization is.
Looking at historical forward prices, the same pattern repeats itself every year.
Within a single delivery year, electricity and gas prices often fluctuate by tens of percent.
This means the exact same volume can be fixed at very different prices within the same year.
- Companies that fix everything at once depend entirely on timing.
- Companies that spread decisions build their price step by step and end up closer to the market average.
- Organisations that take those decisions within a predefined framework consistently perform better than the average.
Not by predicting the market.
But by organising decisions.
A click strategy starts from your organisation.
A well-designed click strategy answers critical questions:
- How sensitive is your budget to price fluctuations?
- What level of risk is acceptable?
- Which volumes must be secured, and which can fluctuate?
- Over what time horizon are decisions spread?
These answers translate into a clear framework with predefined click moments, bandwidths and rules.
Without structure, volatility controls you.
With structure, volatility becomes a tool.
Germany has announced a new comprehensive photovoltaic strategy that aims to significantly accelerate the expansion of solar energy, with the goal of reaching an installed capacity of 215GW by 2030. For this year, an interim target of 9 GW applies and in Q1 2023 newly installed capacity reached almost 2.7 GW. The plan includes increasing ground-mounted systems by 11GW per year from 2026, increasing roof-mounted solar systems by 11GW per year from 2026, and promoting the installation of solar panels on communal building balconies. The strategy also aims to simplify the grid connections of both ground-mounted systems and roof systems and increase the number of skilled workers for the manufacture, planning, installation, and maintenance of PV systems.
Source: EnergyMarketPrice – renews.biz – https://www.energymarketprice.com/home/news
