Every program we offer is free to enroll in and many have no cancellation fees. Most of the programs we offer are either variable rate or fixed rate programs.

Variable rate programs are ones where your rate changes every month as it rides the market. The benefits of a variable rate program are:

• The supplier usually gets a lower price than the local utility or provides an additional service or benefit that the utility doesn't provide.
  
• You can wait until market conditions are right for fixing your rate..
  
• They almost always have no cancellation fee, so there's no risk in trying them out.

Fixed rate programs are ones where the rate is fixed for a certain period of time--you pay the same per unit of energy every month. We go as short as 6 months and as long as 5 years.

These programs aren't available in all markets, but when they are available, we almost always recommend them to our customers because energy prices go up year after year. Can you remember what you were paying for natural gas and electricity 3 or 5 years ago? Imagine if you were paying the same rates today. This is how many Fortune 500 companies buy their energy because, in the long term, the price of energy only goes up.

The benefits of a fixed rate program are:

• You pay the same rates regardless of how high markets go, avoiding increased energy costs.
• Budget certainty that eliminates the negative effects of market volatility.
• The potential for significant long-term savings.