Energy management, run with you

The energy
market wasn't
built for you.
We were.

Volatile prices, contracts written for the supplier, a bill no one can fully explain, and usually one person inside the building left to manage all of it. Pilot is the energy advocate on your side of the table. We start wherever you are, and run it with you.

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25 Years
On the buyer's side Since 2001
$2.5B
Spend under management
$500M+
Client savings delivered

Why we exist

The market favors whoever
understands the rules.

Deregulation did something valuable - it gave businesses real choice and control over their energy. But choice came with complexity: more markets, products, and moving parts than any in-house team can track. Pilot exists to turn all of that choice into an advantage instead of a maze.

Volatile markets

Prices swing on weather, policy, and capacity auctions you can't see coming.

Premiums you can't explain

The fastest-growing part of the bill isn't energy - it's the 10+ non-commodity components that vary by market and utility tariff.

Contracts written for the supplier

The language favors the seller. Most never read past the rate.

No real control

You're a price-taker in a structure someone else designed.

A shifting supply mix

Renewables, capacity, and reliability targets keep moving the goalposts.

A field of look-alike advisors

Every consultant claims a silver bullet. Telling them apart is its own job.

We believe every organization deserves to be on equal footing with the service providers it depends on.

Why Pilot

Built to take you further than a contract.

Most energy help stops at a better rate. Pilot meets you at your level - and for the right portfolio, goes well past it.

The right structure - not a standard one.

Six figures to nine, a different shape every time. For many portfolios, a rigorously negotiated contract is exactly right - and we run one. For the right profile, there's more on the table: structured strategies, Direct Access. We build it and run it ourselves.

A 10-site aerospace & defense portfolio, moved from retail supply to Direct Access - $3.1M saved a year.

We've sat in every seat at this table.

Supplier. Trader. Broker. Consultant. Buyer. Our advocates have worked every side of this market, so we read the whole board - how a price is built, where a contract tilts toward the seller, what your operation actually needs. You don't get one angle. You get all of them.

A national retail portfolio across 1,500+ sites, consolidated and re-run - $50M saved a year.

The desk we work from - open to you.

PowerUp is the instrument, not the pitch: the same real-time market data and portfolio view your advocates work from, so every decision is one you can see, question, and defend to finance.

Built by energy managers, for energy managers - so it fits the job, not the other way around.

Not sure which service fits you?

A 30-minute call and a look at your renewal calendar is the fastest way to find out.

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Proof

What it looks like.

Five portfolios, every altitude - from a sharper contract to wholesale, each the right call for that client.

Aerospace & Defense · CAISO

From retail supply to Direct Access.

$3.1Msaved a year · ~8% of spend
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Retail Food & Drug · National

Fragmented procurement, consolidated.

$50Msaved a year · 1,500+ sites
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Apparel Retail · Multi-utility

Three utilities, one engagement.

$2.3Msaved a year · 40+ sites
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Commercial Real Estate · PJM

The whole function, outsourced.

$1Msaved a year · 250+ sites
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Resources

The Outlet: Unplugged

Energy markets, finally clear.

A visual reference for the wholesale markets, policies, and procurement structures behind commercial power costs - LMPs, capacity auctions, PPAs, FERC Order 2222, the IRA-OBBBA reshuffle. Built by our team as a public resource.

drawn by hand, like everything we explain.

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About Pilot

Energy advocates, since 2001.

Pilot was founded on a simple belief: energy buyers deserve better. The market favors those who understand the rules. We exist to put our clients on equal footing with the service providers they depend on.

Twenty-five years on, we run energy for thousands of commercial, industrial, and public-sector clients across every U.S. deregulated market. A better rate and a sharper contract save you once. We run your energy so you save on every dollar that follows.

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Great Place to Work · Certified 2026-27
Pilot Energy 2026 Great Place to Work Certification Badge
95% of employees say Pilot is a great place to work.
Certified by Great Place To Work. April 2026 - April 2027. Based on anonymous Trust Index survey responses, not self-reported.
National Coverage
PE 35830238 USA Markets We Serve Map Update-2
Power markets
CAISO · PJM · ERCOT · NYISO · ISO-NE · MISO
Natural gas
Major pipeline & city-gate markets, Gulf to coast
Every deregulated U.S. energy market - power & natural gas - plus select services in regulated territories nationwide.

Let's see what's on the other side of your bill.

A 30-minute call, a look at your renewal calendar and supplier exposure, and a written portfolio sketch within a week. No commitment to engage.

Talk to Pilot → 858.678.0118