"energy procurement" is correct and can be used in written English.
Generally, it refers to the process of obtaining energy resources such as electricity, gas and oil from suppliers. For example, "The company is in the process of overhauling its energy procurement procedures to obtain the best rates from suppliers."
Even fewer have an energy procurement strategy backed by senior management.
Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, has announced a public sector energy procurement initiative designed to promote green energy and to create savings for the taxpayer.
"US companies are simply not taking the comprehensive actions necessary – through energy efficiency, renewable energy procurement and other steps – to tackle climate change," according to the Ceres report.
"US companies are simply not taking the comprehensive actions necessary – through energy efficiency, renewable energy procurement and other steps – to tackle climate change," says the report.
Business interruption risk and price volatility mean that an increasing number of businesses are taking a strategic approach to energy procurement.
The results demonstrate that the energy procurement cost is low where the effects of DRPs and BSS are considered, simultaneously.
Wind-power developers fear that unless the governor, the Illinois Commerce Commission or the state legislature takes action to revamp the state's renewable-energy procurement process, few or no long-term contracts for new wind farms will be awarded and the state will fulfill its renewable-energy requirement largely by buying credits from wind farms in Texas and other states.
Deterministic formulations are developed for a single time period planning problem, while the operation costs (including total energy, reserve procurement, and load and wind curtailment costs) and N-1 security constraints are taken into consideration.
The MILP model is used to evaluate the impacts of rising energy costs on procurement sources, transport mix and procurement costs on a national scale, based on the example of Austria.
"But our plan is to take action in four vital areas: procurement, energy costs, unfair competition and dumping, and tax and government support".
By bringing together legal reporting and energy obligations, policy, procurement and management along with energy efficiency and behaviour change we have been able to make the most of our resources and minimise duplication.
