Energy Marketing

Welcome to CenterPoint Energy Services (CES). CenterPoint Energy's non-regulated marketing group, CES, provides competitive natural gas services for commercial, industrial and wholesale customers. Our commercial, wholesale and infrastructure teams are ready to provide you with a wide range of services and the personal service your business needs.

Commercial Businesses

Manufacturing, Agricultural, Health Care, Educational, and many others

Our retail marketing team provides commercial and industrial customers with competitively priced natural gas along with related energy management services.

Supply acquisition strategies
Forward price risk management
Load forecasting
Daily swing volume management
Firm and interruptible transportation

Seasonal storage
Utility rebates
Online access to all usage, invoice and payment information
Invoice consolidation
Electric supply service (for Texas and Illinois customers)

Wholesale Businesses

	Gas Utilities, Electric Utilities, Chemical Plants and Refineries, Other Resellers Our wholesale team manages acquisition of natural gas, transportation and storage capacity across 40 different pipeline systems. The group handles physical and financial trading, as well as asset optimization.
Aggregation of wellhead physical supply Pipeline and storage capacity acquisition and management Structured risk management products	Technical and fundamental market analysis NYMEX trading Weather triggered pricing options

Infrastructure Assets - Industrial Customers and Resellers

Intrastate Pipelines, Storage Investments, Direct Connections, Asset Investment Opportunities

Our business development team coordinates with retail marketing to analyze, construct and operate infrastructure investments for industrial customers and other resellers.

Feasibility analysis
Engineering design
Regulatory consulting
Turnkey construction

Operations (including emergency response)
Maintenance
Physical supply management