Customer Retention
One of the secrets of running a successful energy brokerage business is building a long-term relationship with your customers.
Brett Jurishi
- Jun 7
- 5 min
The 5 Biggest Challenges Energy Brokers Have With Pricing
For energy brokers in deregulated energy markets, one of the most valuable services they can offer their customers is a direct line to...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Common Energy Brokerage Pitfalls
Not many people realize that the lives of energy brokers and consultants are extremely busy. They can go from having to juggle business
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Brett Jurishi
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Will Missouri Move to a Deregulated Power Sector? What to Know Today.
As noted previously in the BrokerX blog, the United States operates as a veritable patchwork when it comes to the utility sector....
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Brett Jurishi
- Jan 11
- 5 min
Implications if Potential for the Arizona Power Sector To Be Deregulated in 2022
Across the United States, the utility sector notoriously must operate in a patchwork fashion. The handful of regional grids all have...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jan 5
- 7 min
The 4 Most Anticipated Stories of 2022
Over the past two weeks, we’ve used this space to fulfill the annual tradition of looking back at the stories that have shaken the energy...
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Brett Jurishi
- Dec 16, 2021
- 6 min
The Energy Sector’s 2021 in Review: Part I
While it may seem cliché to say at the end of any given year that it’s been one for the record books, looking back at what the energy...
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Brett Jurishi
- Dec 9, 2021
- 6 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Balancing Supply and Demand to Keep the Lights On
For most power customers, the interaction with their utilities is fairly basic: they turn the lights on or plug in their devices and they...
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Brett Jurishi
- Nov 5, 2021
- 6 min
What Impact Does 100,000 Teslas Bring to the Hertz Rental Car Fleet?
Since electric vehicles (EVs) were first introduced to the market, one of the most significant hurdles to their adoption has been the...
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Brett Jurishi
- Oct 27, 2021
- 1 min
EMC NY 2021 - Highlights
Check out the highlight reel from EMC NY 2021, featuring our Customer Success Manager, Lyndsey McDonnell and our CEO, Brett Jurishi...
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Brett Jurishi
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Virtual Bids, Convergence Bids, and How They Work
In deregulated, open energy markets, utilizing day-ahead electricity sales comes with the goal to ensure those markets operate as...
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Brett Jurishi
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
Broker Strategies for the Current Energy Price Surge
For many market trends in the energy industry, they only reach the mainstream headlines once they start impacting the wallets of...
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Brett Jurishi
- Sep 30, 2021
- 5 min
The Future is Now: AI is Already Revolutionizing Today’s Grid
Artificial intelligence (AI) gained prominence as a mainstay of science fiction and regular futuristic predictions about all aspects of...
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Brett Jurishi
- Sep 23, 2021
- 7 min
Electric Vehicles Bringing Opportunity - Not Burden - to the Grid
Not long ago, executives at utilities and within the energy industry looked at the potential electric vehicle (EV) future with wide eyes....
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Brett Jurishi
- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
Half of U.S. Electricity by 2050: Is Biden for Real
As climate change and clean energy have climbed their way up higher on the priority list of the average American, with over 80% of voters...
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Brett Jurishi
- Sep 6, 2021
- 6 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Cost-of-Service Vs. Retail Open Access Markets
For many customers, their utilities and the bills they receive from power providers are a bit of a black box. They use energy, turning on...
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Brett Jurishi
- Aug 22, 2021
- 6 min
The Recent IPCC Climate Change Report
The Recent IPCC Climate Change Report: What’s New, What’s It Mean, and What Are Industry Insiders Saying? Thanks to early advocates,...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jul 26, 2021
- 6 min
Demand Response and Energy Efficiency - Assets Akin to Generation
The backbone of the utility industry has always been the generation sector. No matter where you are in the supply chain of energy, it all...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jul 18, 2021
- 5 min
It's Reshaping Energy: Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is occurring across the globe, and it is affecting nearly every aspect of our lives. Even electrical production,...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jul 8, 2021
- 5 min
President Biden’s 2035 Deadline for 100% Carbon-Free Electricity: Achievable Aspiration or Just Hot
When Joe Biden was running for President in his ultimately successful 2020 campaign, he was largely touted as having one of the most...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jun 24, 2021
- 6 min
The Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack: Exposing Dangerous Vulnerabilities Across the Energy Sector
The energy systems that make modern life possible extend well beyond luxury, but rather they are necessities. The availability of energy...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jun 13, 2021
- 7 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Why is Restructuring Today’s Power Markets Such a Complicated Task?
Welcome back for another entry into the Broker eXcelerate Series, meant to cover complex energy market topics for newcomers to the energy...
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Brett Jurishi
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
BrokerX's Solution to the 5 Biggest Challenges Energy Brokers Have With Pricing
Last week we shared with you the 5 biggest challenges that energy brokers commonly run into when getting quotes from energy suppliers....
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Brett Jurishi
- May 31, 2021
- 7 min
Even Batteries Are Bigger in the Lonestar State: Tesla Taking Utility-Scale Storage to Texas
Earlier this Spring, observers in the world of energy started seeing some mysterious headlines discussing a secret utility-scale battery...
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Brett Jurishi
- May 6, 2021
- 9 min
The Unlikely Marriage of Gas & Renewables: Diving Into Renewable Natural Gas
When most people think of renewable energy, the mind goes straight to solar PV panels glistening on a sunny day, blistering winds moving...
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Brett Jurishi
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Fake News: How to Properly Educate Consumers About Customer Choice
The Energy Marketing Conference hosted a panel last week with energy industry experts to discuss fake new and how to properly educate...
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Brett Jurishi
- Apr 22, 2021
- 8 min
Celebrating Earth Day 2021 with Clean Energy: BrokerX Review of 8 Major Clean Energy Commitments
The first Earth Day was recognized on April 22, 1970, as a way to demonstrate support for environmental protection and eco-conscious...
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Brett Jurishi
- Apr 7, 2021
- 8 min
New Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s Priorities: In Her Own Words
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was formed in 1977, combining the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research and Development...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 31, 2021
- 9 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: The Western Grid’s Energy Imbalance Market
The Western Grid’s Energy Imbalance Market and Its Impacts to the Duck Curve, FRAC-MOO, and the Rest of the Utility Farm The energy grid...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 8 min
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Supergrid!
For many years, energy industry professionals have extolled the virtues of upgrading the power grid. The grid is aging, transmission and...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 6 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: How Demand Response & Energy Efficiency Can Be Assets Akin to Generation
The backbone of the utility industry has always been the generation sector. No matter where you are in the supply chain of energy, it all...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 11 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Coal, Nuclear and Renewables - Pros and Cons of Power Generation
The United States is among the larger and more geographically diverse countries in the world with a relatively spread-out population....
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 9 min
Why Aren't Smart Meters Available to More Utility Customers?
Smart meters have been promising to disrupt and revolutionize the utility industry for many years, unlocking new realms of...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 9 min
Unpacking What Just Happened in Texas: Winter Storms, Blackouts, and Outrage
As the winter storm watch was reported for much of the Southern United States starting the week of February 14, 2021, grid onlookers well...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 7 min
Upcoming Trends to Watch in Power Generation Markets
Seasoned veterans of the utility industry have noted that for many decades it seems like the power sector was more or less stagnant....
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 9 min
10 Most Compelling Energy Insights From The Big Game
The Super Bowl is inarguably the biggest event on the American calendar when it comes to sports, television, party food, and more. While wor
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 7 min
Broker eXcelerate Series: Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Transmission Market Players
ENERGY INDUSTRY 101: NAVIGATING THE ALPHABET SOUP OF TRANSMISSION MARKET PLAYERS The utility industry holds particularly unique standing...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Customer Retention is Key to Long-Term Profits
One of the secrets of running a successful energy brokerage business is building a long-term relationship with your customers. Thinking...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 9 min
Biden's First Two Weeks
FORGET A PRESIDENT’S FIRST 100 DAYS, WHAT HAS BIDEN DONE FOR ENERGY IN HIS FIRST 2 WEEKS? The traditional flag in the sand for a new...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 7 min
The 3 Most Anticipated Energy Stories of 2021
Ready or not, 2021 is finally here. And while the changeover of the calendar is not itself the cause of new trends, it does serve as a...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 8 min
Navajo Generating Station Shut Down
NAVAJO GENERATING STATION SHUT DOWN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ARIZONA AND THE DETHRONING OF KING COAL? For much of the history of the energy...
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Brett Jurishi
- Mar 22, 2021
- 7 min