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Your fractional Chief Energy Officer.

Client-side energy leadership for organizations making complex decisions across procurement, efficiency, sustainability, incentives, and facility strategy without the overhead of a full-time executive.
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$2B+

Energy Market Experience

$2B+

CLIENT ENERGY SPEND SUPPORTED

C&I · MUSH

SECTORS SERVED

North America

COVERAGE

Energy Opportunity Map — Executive View
LIVE
Annual Spend
$4.82M
▼ 6.4% opportunity
Risk Exposure
Moderate
▼ 2 levels w/ strategy
Incentives Avail.
$612K
▲ across 3 sites
Baseline spend
Under Spruce oversight
Optimization trend
Monthly energy spend: Jan $480K, Feb $465K, Mar $420K, Apr $395K, May $365K, Jun $335K, Jul $310K, Aug $290K, Sep $275K.
01
Procure
Contracts · Markets · Risk
02
Reduce
Efficiency · Demand · Data
03
Sustain
On-site · Clean Energy
04
Finance
Incentives · ROI · Capital
THE SPRUCE PLATFORM

One coordinated view of energy.

Procurement, efficiency, sustainability, and financing are interconnected. Spruce helps leadership manage them as a single, disciplined portfolio not four disconnected conversations.

01 — Procure

Procure

Electricity and natural gas contracts, rate structures, renewals, RECs, VPPAs.
  • Contracts
  • Markets
  • Risk

02 — Reduce

Reduce

Utility data, demand response, lighting, HVAC, controls, and operational savings.
  • Efficiency
  • Demand
  • Data

03 — Sustain

Sustain

Solar, storage, geothermal, CHP, and practical decarbonization planning.
  • On-site
  • Clean energy
  • Reporting

04 — Finance

Finance

Federal, state, and utility incentives, rebates, ROI modeling, project economics.
  • Incentives
  • ROI
  • Capital stack

$2B+

In client energy spend supported across procurement, efficiency, and sustainability

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Integrated service pillars managed under one strategy

C&I + MUSH

Commercial, industrial, municipal, university, school, and healthcare clients

Client-side

Always sitting on the client’s side of the table. Never a broker.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

We lead from the client's side of the table.

Spruce may diligence, evaluate, coordinate, and recommend qualified brokers, consultants, advisors, suppliers, engineers, and developers.

Respect

We work well with capable providers. Good partners make great outcomes possible.

Judgment

We translate complex energy decisions into clear tradeoffs. No jargon. No theatrics.

Accountability

We stay close to execution, monitor results, and refine the strategy over time. We do not disappear after contract signing.
Services

Chief Energy Officer, as a service.

A lean operating model for executive energy decisions strategy, diligence, coordination, and ongoing optimization, without building an internal energy department.

01

Energy Strategy & Leadership

A unified roadmap across cost, risk, operations, sustainability, and capital planning owned by an executive-grade partner.
  • Multi-year energy roadmap
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Executive & board reporting

02

Procurement & Contract Strategy

Electricity and natural gas strategy across rate structures, RFPs, renewals, RECs, and VPPAs with rigorous contract review.
  • Supplier & RFP support
  • Rate structure review
  • Renewal timing & risk

03

Efficiency & Demand Reduction

Utility analytics, benchmarking, demand response, and lighting, HVAC, and controls improvements that reduce operating cost.
  • Utility data & benchmarking
  • Demand response programs
  • Lighting · HVAC · controls

04

Sustainability & On-Site Energy

Solar, CHP, storage, geothermal, and renewable energy options with practical, financially disciplined decarbonization planning.
  • Solar · storage · geothermal
  • Resilience & CHP
  • Reporting support

05

Incentives, Financing & ROI

Federal, state, local, and utility incentives coordinated with payback discipline rebates, grants, tax credits, and capitalstack support.
  • Rebates · grants · tax credits
  • Financing structures
  • ROI & payback modeling

06

Vendor & ABC Diligence

Diligence, evaluation, and coordination of brokers, consultants, advisors, suppliers, engineers, contractors, and developers matched to the client’s priorities.
  • Provider evaluation
  • Scope alignment
  • Ongoing coordination
THE SPRUCE PROCESS

Assess. Align. Execute. Optimize.

A simple, disciplined decision architecture built for busy finance, operations, and facilities teams. The same four steps apply to a single contract or a multi-site portfolio.

Assess

Review utility bills, contracts, facility data, risks, and opportunities across the portfolio.

Align

Set priorities across cost, risk, operations, sustainability, and capital planning.

Execute

Coordinate decisions, vet and
manage providers, and move projects
forward.

Optimize

Monitor markets and performance,
refine strategy, and keep decisions
current.

HOW TO ENGAGE

Three ways to work with Spruce.

Start where it matters most. Move toward full fractional energy leadership at your own pace.

START HERE

Energy Opportunity Assessment

A focused first review. We identify where cost, risk, efficiency, or incentive opportunities may be hiding and the next best step.
  • Utility bill & contract review
  • High-level opportunity map
  • Honest fit recommendation

MOST COMMON

Fractional CEO

Ongoing fractional Chief Energy Officer support. Strategy, provider coordination, market monitoring, and executive reporting on a predictable cadence.
  • Executive-level energy oversight
  • Provider diligence & coordination
  • Quarterly reporting & planning

PROJECT BASED

Sprint & Owner's Rep

Procurement sprints, efficiency roadmaps, or owner’s-rep support for a specific project without a long term commitment.
  • Procurement strategy sprint
  • Efficiency & sustainability roadmap
  • Owner's rep / project support
INDUSTRIES

Built for facility driven organizations.

Spruce creates the most value where energy materially affects budget, operations, resilience, sustainability, or public accountability and where decisions deserve executive-level thinking.

AgriBusiness

Irrigation, processing, and energy economics across large, rural operations.

Commercial Real Estate

Tenant economics, NOI, and portfolio-level energy strategy.

Food Processing & Cold Storage

Refrigeration-heavy operations, demand risk, and utility rate optimization.

Manufacturing

Process loads, peak demand, and capital planning for plants with meaningful utility spend.

Healthcare

Resilience, 24/7 critical loads, and disciplined cost management.

Hospitality

24/7 guest comfort, rate risk, and measured capital upgrades.

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Client energy spend supported

Across procurement, efficiency, and sustainability programs

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Priority industries served

Spanning both C&I and MUSH sectors

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Client-side posture

Supplier-neutral. Always on the client’s side of the table.

Best Fit

When Spruce creates the most value.

Spruce fits best when energy is material to the business, the facility footprint is complex, or a meaningful decision is on the horizon.

Material energy spend

Electricity or natural gas is large enough to deserve executive attention and disciplined strategy.

Complex facilities

Multiple meters, sites, systems, contracts, or projects in motion at once.

No internal energy leader

Energy touches several teams, but no single executive owns the full strategy

Decisions ahead

A contract renewal, capital project, incentive window, or sustainability target is approaching.

RESOURCES & IN SIGHTS

Executive tools for better energy decisions.

Clear, plain-English guidance for CFOs, COOs, facilities leaders, city managers, and boards. Short reads. No jargon. Practical frameworks.

FEATURED GUIDE

The Executive Energy Risk Checklist

A concise review tool for leadership teams before signing a supply contract, approving a capital project, or committing to a sustainability target. Fifteen questions that surface the risks most often missed.


Start here

Request an Energy Opportunity Assessment.

Share the basics. Spruce will identify where cost, risk, efficiency, and incentive opportunities may be hiding and tell you honestly where we fit.

Assessment request

Takes about 3 minutes. All fields optional except name, email, and organization.

What Happens Next

A focused first review.

We review your situation.

Facilities, bills, contracts, timing, priorities. Quietly and confidentially.

We review your situation.

Facilities, bills, contracts, timing, priorities. Quietly and confidentially.

We review your situation.

Facilities, bills, contracts, timing, priorities. Quietly and confidentially.

Best for organizations with meaningful facility energy spend.

PREFER A DIRECT CONVERSATION?
  • EMAIL
  • info@tospruce.com
  • PHONE
  • 443-783-9068
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