Case Study:

Lincoln Park is a non-profit organization dedicated to the arts and education. Their thriving performing arts center organizes professional theatrical productions each year. Uniquely, the center is also home to the Lincoln Park Performing Arts School, so every day about 800 students come to the center to receive high-quality public education.

CUSTOMER: INDUSTRY: LOCATION:

LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Community Theater PA, USA

Natural Gas & Electricity Brokerage

Customer Overview

Not being energy experts, the Lincoln Park Center was having difficulty in managing its natural gas and electricity costs. As a nonprofit organization, they have a responsibility to continuously evaluate the goods and services they purchase, and so the Center was looking for an energy consultant to provide the market expertise and to deliver a more efficient, and lower-cost energy procurement strategy, along with lower-carbon operations.

Challenge

After conducting a vetting process of potential consultants, The Lincoln Park Center determined that World Kinect “offered the most professional, cost effective, and efficient services” in terms of securing energy supply contracts, reducing energy consumption, and providing ongoing market advice.

World Kinect Solution

Through tenders with multiple suppliers, World Kinect structured and negotiated competitive natural gas and electricity supply contracts, taking the guesswork out of the process for the customer.

World Kinect became the “single source provider” to the Center for electricity and natural gas market information, explaining how deregulated markets and tender rates work, how to make energy costs more predictable, and to help make informed decisions.

World Kinect provided ongoing regulatory intelligence to help ensure the Center understands how government mandates affect their particular sector.

Paying attention to the impact their operations have on the local environment and global climate is important to the Center. And World Kinect’s energy efficiency audit helped the customer to identify opportunities to reduce their energy consumption and to exceed the PA state mandates for energy efficiency.

Partnering with World Kinect provided the needed industry expertise to achieve more predictable energy costs, lower energy consumption, peace of mind of having a solid procurement strategy in place, and energy efficiency compliance. The trusted partnership and personal relationship with the Account Management team empowered the center to outsource its energy management and focus more on their primary business.

Business Impact

SINGLE SOURCE ENERGY PROVIDER

ENERGY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE

LOWER ENERGY COSTS & CONSUMPTION

We selected World Kinect as our partner for our energy services, because they know their business. We have a lot of people. We deal with the public. We deal with students. So there's a lot of places where your attention and your focus gets pulled. So again, having a partner like World Kinect at least takes that variable and that stress point out of the equation. We have the confidence that we're making the best decisions about our energy resources. And we can then focus our attention and concerns to other areas.

STEPHEN CATANZARITE, FOUNDER AND CEO, LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, MIDLAND, PA, USA

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