Industries we serve
A restaurant, a warehouse and a church do not consume electricity alike, and should not be contracted alike. Each page below explains what actually drives that type of business's bill.
- Verticals covered
- 14 Houston commercial sectors
- Utility
- CenterPoint Energy across the metro
- Also shoppable
- Natural gas, for most of these
- Cost to look
- Nothing
Why the vertical matters
Suppliers price against your load shape, not just your total usage. Two Houston businesses consuming identical annual kWh can be quoted quite differently because one draws steadily around the clock and the other spikes for four hours a day.
Restaurants & Food Service
Refrigeration that never sleeps, ventilation that runs all service, and margins thin enough that the supply rate matters.
Evening-weighted with a hard base load.
Retail & Shopping Centers
Long trading hours, lighting-heavy load, and common-area meters that nobody has looked at in years.
Daytime and evening-weighted across a long trading day, with lighting and HVAC as the dominant loads and comparatively little overnight draw beyond security lighting and refrigerated display.
Warehouses & Logistics
High square footage, long operating hours, and a load factor good enough to earn real pricing attention — if the data is presented properly.
Long and relatively flat.
Manufacturing
Motor load, demand charges and power factor — where the supply rate is only part of what a broker should be reading.
Shift-driven with hard starts.
Multi-Family & Apartments
House meters, common areas and vacant units — the accounts a property manager controls, and the ones that quietly drift.
Steady and year-round.
Office Buildings
Sharp weekday peaks, meaningful demand charges, and a base load that never quite reaches zero.
A pronounced weekday profile — ramping before opening, peaking mid-afternoon, dropping in the evening — over a base load of server rooms, security and life-safety systems that run continuously.
Hotels & Hospitality
24-hour load, occupancy-driven swings, and volume tolerance terms that matter as much as the rate.
Continuous.
Medical & Dental Practices
Clean weekday load, sensitive equipment, and nobody on staff whose job is energy procurement.
Weekday clinic hours with a persistent overnight base — refrigerated storage for vaccines and specimens, servers, sterilisation equipment on standby, and imaging systems that draw even when idle.
Convenience Stores & Fuel Stations
Around-the-clock refrigeration, canopy lighting and fuel pumps — a high load factor that should price well.
Genuinely 24-hour.
Churches & Non-Profits
A load shape unlike any other commercial account — near-empty all week, full for a few hours, and paying for the peak.
Concentrated and spiky.
Schools & Education
Academic-calendar load, summer shutdowns, and multi-building campuses with meters nobody has inventoried.
Calendar-driven.
Auto Services & Car Washes
Motor load, compressors and heated dryers — small footprints with demand charges that surprise their owners.
Daytime-weighted with heavy intermittent motor load.
Gyms & Fitness Studios
Long opening hours, hard-working HVAC, and 24-hour formats that run a genuine overnight base load.
Long and double-peaked — early morning and evening surges around before-work and after-work traffic, with 24-hour facilities holding a real overnight base.
Oil, Gas & Energy Services
Yards, shops and field facilities across the Houston industrial belt — often several meters, rarely one contract.
Varies more within this vertical than any other.
Not on the list?
These are the sectors we see most in Houston, not the only ones we work with. If you have a commercial meter and a bill, the process is the same regardless of what your business does.
Send one bill. Get a straight answer.
We read what you are on now, take it to the providers we hold agreements with, and tell you whether it is worth moving. If it is not, we say so.