If you are a small business consumer of natural gas in Georgia you have several challenges to overcome. Unlike large commercial or industrial users of natural gas, you probably don’t have multiple marketers vying for your business. The reason is obvious. You use a small quantity of gas and the potential profit for the marketer less.

Although natural gas expense is significant to you, your usage is not large enough to get the attention of natural gas marketers. You may find that you have to work quite hard to find “cheap” natural gas. The good news is that low rates are available to consumers who shop. To appreciate the potential savings it helps to consider the way in which marketers set commercial rates. There are basically three rates available from marketers.

1. The “standard” rate that marketers post on their website and quote to new customers that call and apply for service.
2. The “default” rate that marketers apply to customers whose contract has lapsed and have not renewed at competitive rates.
3. The “competitive” rate that marketers will bid when faced with competition for an account.

Clearly it’s to the benefit of small commercial businesses to seek out the competitive natural gas rate when applying for gas service. How do they do that? The best way is to issue a formal request for proposal (RFP) to multiple Georgia natural gas marketers. This is a service provided by EnergyBidder through its website www.energybidder.com.

You might say, “Why can’t I get competitive natural gas quotes myself”? Well, you can but I submit you can get better pricing by using an established service like EnergyBidder. First, it takes experience and knowledge to identify the qualified marketers and to make sure that the quotes are “apples to apples.” Marketers have multiple ways of computing gas rates and it’s important to make sure rate structures, pipeline charges, service charges and contract terms are consistent. Secondly only a service like EnergyBidder can provide you with the power of aggregation. When multiple accounts can be aggregated (or bundled) together, marketers will provide lower pricing for all.

For more information about smart shopping for your natural gas needs visit us at www.energybidder.com.