How we support your business
For the last 15+ years, we have helped businesses across sectors such as manufacturing, pharma, agri-food, retail, and hospitality make procurement decisions they can stand over, especially when markets are moving fast.
We advise on when to go to market, how contracts should be structured, and how much risk makes sense for your business.
For large energy users, that means structured procurement strategies, access to real trading insight and decisions that hold up at board level.
For complex, multi-site SMEs, it means straight answers, no pressure, and a clear path forward.
We provide real independent advice, with an integrated procurement, trading and engineering team that has no agenda, other than yours.
Energy Strategy
& Ongoing Advisory
As energy costs, regulation and sustainability expectations increase, decisions cannot be made in isolation.
Many of our clients operate across multiple sites or sectors, with different energy profiles and priorities. They rely on us not just at contract renewal, but year after year, because energy is rarely a one-off decision.
We support clients with tariff selection, capacity planning, regulatory impacts, and longer-term energy strategy, whether they are running a single energy-intensive operation or managing portfolios across retail, logistics, healthcare, or property.
We supply clear advice to procurement teams, client-side engineers, CFOs, and Sustainability Officers so they can make better decisions.
One partner.
Joined-up expertise.
There is something we often hear new clients. They are tired of juggling brokers, engineers and consultants who do not speak to each other or understand the full picture.
Exemplar brings everything together in one team. That means fewer handovers, fewer gaps, and fewer surprises.
You might start with us in one area. Many clients go on to rely on us more broadly. That is not by design. It is by trust.
In business terms we have ‘huge levels of client retention.’ Our clients stick with us because we show up, stay close and do what we say we will do. Have a look at some of our existing client’s words.
Built for today.
Ready for what’s next.
Energy will keep changing. Markets will remain unpredictable. Regulation will increase.
We have been navigating this landscape for over 15+ years, supporting businesses across Ireland’s most energy-intensive and operationally complex sectors. We continue to invest in our people and our insight so we can support clients with confidence as their needs evolve.
Whether you are managing significant energy exposure or simply want to feel more in control, Exemplar is here to help.
Because when energy decisions matter, it helps to have someone in your corner, aiming to make energy one less thing you have to worry about.
Trusted by leading energy-intensive organisations
Why now matters in energy procurement
Timing shapes your options and your costs. Knowing what’s driving the conversation helps you act decisively.
FAQs
You get clear energy decisions, without the noise.
That covers procurement and contract strategy, ongoing contract management, bill validation, budgeting and forecasting, plus engineering support to help you use less energy and plan for decarbonisation. In short: energy becomes one less thing to worry about.
Because you need more than a quote.
Exemplar is an independent, buyer-side advisor. You get a proper tender and negotiation process, plus the support that protects value after the contract is signed: budgeting, bill validation, and ongoing contract management. And when you want to go further, you can link procurement with engineering-led efficiency and decarbonisation support, so you reduce consumption as well as unit cost.
Yes. That’s the point.
Advice is based on what works for your business, not on pushing a particular supplier, contract type or ‘product’. You get an approach you can stand over internally.
Whichever best matches your risk and your reality.
- Fixed can suit when budget certainty matters most.
- Flexible can suit when you have scale, volatility exposure and the appetite to manage risk over time.
You’ll get a clear recommendation, with trade-offs spelled out in plain English.
Properly. And end-to-end.
We start with your data, sites, constraints and decision timeline. Then we go to market, compare options like-for-like, negotiate hard, and manage the switch and implementation. No drama. No loose ends.
We help you avoid one big bet.
Energy markets move fast. Instead of guessing, we build a strategy that reduces regret: staged buying, blended approaches, and clear triggers so decisions aren’t made in panic.
Because mistakes cost money. Quietly.
Bill validation checks that what you’re billed matches what you agreed, what you used, and what you should be paying. It’s also a fast way to spot errors, anomalies and cost creep across multiple sites.
Yes. You need numbers you can trust.
We translate procurement decisions into budget ranges with clear assumptions, so finance and procurement stay aligned and surprises reduce.