Our menu of competitive pricing alternatives allows you to price your supply in a manner consistent with your individual risk tolerance. Each of these alternatives is designed to help reduce your natural gas procurement costs, while also allowing you options that range from maximum price protection to maximum flexibility. With A.E. Sharp, you can choose from full price certainty for a one to five year term with one of our Fixed Price plans, or opt for ongoing market exposure via a floating Index-based Price plan. Looking for the best of both worlds? Consider our industry-leading Managed Price Pool (MPP) plan, a popular option among existing clients. All our programs are designed to let you mitigate your natural gas price risk appropriately, in line with your organization's objectives.
Fixed Price – A.E. Sharp is able to offer you extremely competitive fixed pricing. The development and design of a natural gas procurement strategy will help determine whether a fixed price for the entire term, or some portion of the term, meets the objectives and risk profile of your organization. The fixed price option removes 100% of your exposure to volatile natural gas market prices for your Daily Contract Quantity (DCQ). Give me a current fixed price quote.
Managed Price Pool (MPP) – Our team of experts decides what percentage of the pool's supply is priced at a fixed rate and what percentage if floating with the Canadian Gas Price Reporter (CGPR) Index. Our trading team manages the pool closely and makes purchasing decisions based on up-to-the-minute knowledge and information. A.E. Sharp's objective in managing the MPP is to provide optimal performance to an aggregated portfolio of customers, through a combination of price stability and a degree of market exposure. Contact us to enroll in the MPP.
Index-Based Price - We are also pleased to offer index-based (floating market) pricing to larger customers with annual consumption over 5,000,000 cubic metres (or 500 GJ/day). The preferred index is the CGPR AECO daily or monthly index. The CGPR is a trusted, liquid index, whose settlement figures are relied upon as the most accurate, industry-standard reference index. Index pricing allows larger organizations with higher tolerance for market price risk to participate in any downside market movements, while also accepting that upward movements will have an adverse impact on their gas costs. Index-based customers reserve the right to 'trigger' (convert their floating price index price to a fixed price) throughout the term of their agreement with A.E. Sharp. Contact us for more information.
Blended Price - Another option, typically used only by larger organizations, allows you to elect to fix the price on only a percentage of your full portfolio volume while allowing the remainder to stay priced at an approved CGPR Index (daily or monthly) price. As with index-based programs, customers with blended pricing also reserve the right to convert their index-based volumes to fixed pricing should favourable market conditions warrant such a decision. Contact us for more information.