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Leigh Academies Trust saves £500,000+ through flexible energy purchasing.

Discover how a 10+ year partnership helped one of the country’s largest and most established Multi-Academy Trusts navigate a turbulent energy market

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Leigh Academies Trust: Flexible contract saves over half a million pounds.
Achieved savings: Year one
£
399,311
Forecast savings: Year two
£
200,287
Forecast savings: Year three
£
43,511

Following a turbulent period in energy, Leigh Academies Trust faced a significant price hike on its fixed contract renewal in 2023. Keen to protect their budget, the Trust partnered with Zenergi to explore a flexible purchasing strategy to capitalise on energy price fluctuations throughout the contract duration.

Adopting an alternative procurement strategy

Zenergi has supported Leigh Academies Trust with its energy procurement for more than 10 years to date.

When faced with a significant renewal cost increase, Zenergi hosted a tailored workshop for the Trust to explore alternative procurement options available to the group.  Leigh Academies opted for Zenergi’s Zen Flex Bespoke product, allowing them to mitigate volatility by purchasing energy in advance and trading on the day-ahead market.

What Leigh Academies Trust thought

The Zen Flex Bespoke product has helped us navigate the volatile energy market, achieve significant cost savings and budget certainty. We’re extremely pleased with the results and would recommend Zenergi to any organisation seeking to optimise energy costs.

Richard Cottam MSc

Deputy Estates Director

Leigh Academies Trust

An expert team to drive cost savings

The purchasing strategy is managed by Zenergi’s Energy Markets team who use their expertise to navigate market movements effectively, devising strategic trading approaches that leverage opportunities to secure competitive energy prices

It is one of several flexible procurement strategies that Zenergi manages on behalf of customers who want to take advantage of market movements to minimise energy costs.

Leigh Academies Trust’s experience demonstrates how embracing a flexible strategy leveraging the wealth of experience of Zenergi’s team can offer substantial budget savings.

£ 643,109

savings projected from a three-year purchasing strategy.

Achieving big savings

The three-year strategy has enabled Leigh Academies Trust to achieve a saving against budget of £399,311 for year one alone. The savings for the duration of the contract are forecast at £200,287 for year two and £43,511 for year three. The projected savings amount to a total of £643,109.

Chris Jermy director of customer success zenergi

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