We help municipalities and businesses increase their level of energy preparedness. 

Energy preparedness is a direct analogue to disaster and emergency preparedness.  It gauges the extent to which an individual, group, or entity is:

• well-positioned for escalating energy prices and supply disruptions
• committed to using less energy
• addressing structural issues that lock in energy consumption.

One could say energy preparedness is the real homeland security!

Cities are the largest consumers of energy and goods, and are woefully dependent on energy and distant places for the goods they consume. This reliance makes them highly vulnerable to high energy costs (directly and embodied in the products they consume) and energy supply disruptions, both of which are prevalent now to differing extents and will be exacerbated as demand further exceeds supply.

Yet the world’s economies continue to grow and demand more and more energy.  This is particularly troubling when one considers the lack of spare capacity in global oil supply.  For decades, Saudi Arabia was the world’s major swing producer, deliberately managing its oil production to keep supply and demand roughly in balance.  By most accounts, it appears that Saudi Arabia is pumping full bore and can no longer open the spigots at will to meet fluctuations in market demand.  The result has been a tightening of the oil market over the past several years, which has manifested as higher prices and volatility.  The figure below shows escalating prices and high volatility in oil prices from April 2005 to April 2006. 

Businesses are in the same sea of worry, different boat; they need to make sure the can continue operations and maintain competitive advantage, which will mean being very energy intelligent in the post-petroleum future. 

Organizations that continue down the business-as-usual road may end up somewhere they don't like very much.

Our framework for energy preparedness can provide your municipality or business with the foundation it needs to navigate the new landscape of oil supply vulnerabilities and coming era of energy descent. We offer recommendations informed by analytics rather than ideology.

Our screening analysis determines how several eminently plausible energy pricing scenarios might affect your organization's bottom line. Organizations have been betting that oil prices would stabilize or drop for the past three years, and have been ghastly wrong each time. Oil prices went up 48% last year. What if oil prices continues escalating at the blistering 34% annual rate from 2003 to 2006? How would that affect your operations? How would that affect your customers?

We are prepared to help guide your organization through the process of increasing its energy preparedness.  Contact us at info (at) energypreparedness.net to find out more.