Independent Energy Advisory
Exigent Solutions advises organizations with complex, large-scale energy portfolio positions — without ever holding a position of our own.
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Most organizations don't have a strategy for their energy positions. They have a date on the calendar — the day the current contract expires, or a meeting finally gets scheduled — and whatever the market happens to be doing that week becomes the decision. That's not a strategy. It's an accident with a signature on it.
The Common Approach
Energy gets scheduled around whoever finally has time to look at it — not around what the market is actually doing.
A single data point gets treated like a decision: whatever the price is on the day someone finally checks becomes the price you pay, whether the market bottomed eighteen months ago or turns two weeks from now.
That's price-taking. It's reactive by design, and there's no benchmark in place to even measure what it cost.
The Exigent Standard
We set the target first — a real, benchmarked number, based on where the market actually sits, not where a calendar says a decision is due.
Positions are watched continuously, and action is taken when the market meets that number — not when a renewal deadline forces a decision regardless of conditions.
The difference isn't marginal. It's the difference between hoping you caught a good day and knowing you captured the opportunity you set out to find.
Price takers wait for a date.
Price setters wait for a number.
Point of View, Continued
Most organizations default to the same fixed-price contract, assuming that's simply what an energy position looks like. It rarely is. A facility running twenty-four hours a day, a sanctuary used mainly on Sunday mornings, and a venue that comes alive at night all draw power on completely different schedules — yet most end up on the identical product. Building a structure around the load isn't taking on more risk. It's the diligence most organizations don't have time to do themselves — which is exactly the gap Exigent exists to close, functioning as an off-site energy department for the client.
The Common Approach
One fixed-price contract, applied the same way regardless of when or how the facility actually uses power.
Contract start dates land wherever the renewal falls — often a peak month — locking in a higher baseline for the life of the term, year after year.
The Exigent Standard
A structure built around the actual load profile — because a 24-hour operation, a once-a-week sanctuary, and a late-night venue are different positions, not the same one.
Contract timing is chosen on purpose, favoring shoulder months where it makes sense, so the starting point reflects a cheaper market instead of a hotter one.
A grocery store, a church, and a nightclub don't use power the same way. They shouldn't buy it the same way either.
Typical spread from comparing suppliers on a single day
What we've captured for clients, contract to contract, once the market — not the calendar — set the terms
Not every gap tells the same story — some of it is the market having moved; the rest is the difference between what a client would have settled for and what we found instead. We're plain with clients about which is which, and every situation is different.
Approach
Exigent operates as the energy function most organizations don't have the bandwidth to staff internally — brought in as needed, without adding headcount or complexity.
We hold no supplier relationships that compete with yours, and no incentive but the one you give us. Every recommendation traces back to a single interest — the client in front of us.
Positions are built against predetermined market criteria, not convenience — through various product structures, hedging, and timed procurement, monitored continuously rather than revisited at renewal. The same discipline extends to budget forecasting, tariff evaluation, and long-term planning, so the position holds up well beyond the next contract.
Contract negotiation, supplier and utility coordination, bill audits, and compliance run through one desk. For clients with twenty, thirty, or more locations, that means every account tracked — renewal dates, supplier, product, and each utility's own rules — with contract copies on file and notice the moment a rule changes. Nothing falls into the gap between departments.
Not every relationship starts with a signed engagement. We're comfortable spending real time early — understanding the position, flagging where we think there's opportunity, and shaping a plan — before anything formal is on the table. It's often the best way to know if the fit is right, for both sides.
Case Studies
Four real engagements, details anonymized. Not every one of them is about price — the work that matters most rarely is.
Contract Renewal, Same Terms
A commercial client's contract was expiring, and the incumbent supplier's renewal quote was the number they were prepared to simply accept.
Lower rate secured, vs. the supplier's original renewal quote — same term length
Benchmarking the renewal against real-time market conditions — rather than accepting it on the supplier's timeline — positioned the client into a comparable-term agreement at a meaningfully lower rate. Same reliability, same structure, different price.
Nothing about the deal itself changed — same supplier, same term, same reliability. The only thing that moved was who checked the number first.
Exiting a High-Rate Contract
A client was exiting a legacy contract priced well above where the market had since settled. They were positioned into a new agreement reflecting current conditions.
Rate reduction achieved — the portion of it a passive renewal in the same window would have missed
Some of that decline was simply the market having moved — that part isn't ours to claim. The real measure of our contribution is the gap between what a passive renewal would have captured and what we found instead.
We draw this distinction on purpose. A client should know what they're paying us to do — find the opportunity the market wasn't going to hand them anyway.
250 Locations, Four Utilities
A client operating roughly 250 locations across four utilities was being billed individually per facility — someone on staff was physically writing and mailing a paper check for every single invoice, every month.
Monthly invoices, before and after consolidation — one summary invoice per utility
We consolidated their billing into summary invoices, one per utility — no change in pricing, no change in service, no negotiation involved at all.
Price is one lever we pull. It isn't the only one — sometimes the biggest win is hours of administrative work removed from someone's month.
Flagship Engagement — Hyperscale Infrastructure
A hyperscale data center project in Texas came to Exigent at the earliest possible stage — before ground was broken, before a power partner existed, before most of the eventual joint venture had even been assembled. The one problem no one could solve: nothing at this scale had ever been powered this way before, and no one involved had a real connection to the energy side of the deal.
Exigent identified and brought in a major energy trading and power supply partner, then convened and helped run the first full cross-company meeting — dozens of people, from developers to power-plant builders, in one room for the first time. From there, Exigent reached out across the generation and infrastructure landscape, and the response mattered as much as the introductions themselves: established firms took the recommendation seriously enough to join. That validation is, in our view, what let the joint venture grow to include an EPC contractor, a turbine and generation equipment manufacturer, a regional utility, and significant capital partners.
From there, the work became continuous — interconnect agreements, hedging principles, and facility placement relative to power cost and availability were not concepts the joint venture had needed to understand before. Over the life of the engagement so far, that has meant countless calls with counterparties across the deal.
The market is full of hyperscale claims. Ours is the one that got taken seriously enough to build a joint venture around.
This project has not yet been formally announced and remains in active negotiation. Details here are intentionally limited — no counterparties, exact scale, or timeline are disclosed.
Region
Texas
Scale
Multi-GigawattAmong the largest single power positions of its kind
Status
Active, In Negotiation
Engaged Since
Project InceptionYears before the joint venture existed
Scope of Practice
Each engagement draws from the same core practice, scoped to what the client and position actually requires.
Deregulated energy markets, read and negotiated on your behalf — priced against various product structures, hedging, and timed procurement, so volatility never becomes your problem.
Negotiation, proactive renewals, and bill audits that recover overcharges and missed credits — paired with efficiency and demand-response opportunities identified across the portfolio.
Multi-year cost forecasts, regulatory intelligence, and benchmarking, so leadership plans around energy costs instead of being surprised by them.
Solar, on-site generation, and long-term sustainability goals evaluated the same way as everything else — on the numbers, not the trend.
Range
From a handful of restaurants to a multi-gigawatt joint venture, and everything in between — we've likely already thought through what a position like yours actually requires.
Founder & Principal
Elia Streltsov
Founder & Principal
A graduate of Texas A&M University, Elia Streltsov began his career on the supplier side at NextEra Energy in 2008, then spent over fourteen years advising commercial clients as Vice President of an energy consulting firm — before launching Exigent Solutions independently in November 2023. That path shapes how the firm operates today: your relationship stays with one contact, start to finish — never passed down to a junior analyst and quietly forgotten, never routed through a queue. He stays personally involved wherever it helps, but who you're actually working with doesn't change without you knowing exactly who that is.
As the practice grows, that standard doesn't loosen. It's the reason Exigent stays boutique by design, not by circumstance.
Market Intelligence
Every week, active clients receive an update built around their specific position — not a generic newsletter. It's a standing part of how each engagement is run, not an occasional check-in.
Current options priced against the market as of that morning — not stale numbers from the last time someone happened to check.
Where pricing has moved and where it appears to be headed, so a single number is read in context, not in isolation.
A clear call every week — including the weeks where the right move is to do nothing at all.
A broader read on the economy, natural gas, weather, and conditions specific to the client's own region.
What We Hear First
Most clients expect this to be a heavy lift for their team. It isn't, by design. Once engaged, we handle nearly all of the work — gathering data, negotiating with suppliers, reporting findings, and agreeing on a strategy together. From there, we monitor the market continuously and reach out only when there's an opportunity worth acting on. The time investment on your end is a handful of conversations, not a project.
Having a year or two left on a contract feels like a reason to wait. It isn't — opportunity is tied to market conditions, not to a renewal date, and the market doesn't wait for a contract to expire. Waiting until a few months out to start looking puts you back in the position of taking whatever the market happens to be doing that week, rather than the one you set out to find.
Contact
Tell us where your organization stands today, and you'll hear back directly — no intake queue, no hand-off.
Exigent Solutions
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Opportunities
Exigent is selective about who carries its name — which is exactly why the right person should reach out.
If you already carry a book in commercial energy and want the backing of an independent platform — market intelligence, contract support, and a name clients recognize — without folding your practice into a corporate machine, we should talk.
Occasionally we bring on driven, sharp professionals from outside the industry and train them properly. Less common, but never off the table for the right person.
Reach out directly — mention what you'd bring, and we'll go from there.
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