Managing Your Business Energy Costs.
The Government are encouraging everyone, especially manufacturers and commercial sites, to manage their business costs. The easiest way to do this, is to track your usage by using a smart meter and using an energy management system.
As an electricity broker, we always encourage clients to do the simple things to manage their business costs such as:
· Making sure that your office computers are on sleep mode or preferably off when you’re not using them.
· Turning off your lights and electrical appliances saves a huge amount of money. This type of energy is known as “baseload electricity” and it can usually be easily reduced by energy diligence, and you can see this on your usage data.
· Install LED lights as they use around 10% of the power used for a normal light.
· Switch to energy-efficient equipment, i.e., replacing your old computer with new energy-efficient versions.
· Simply closing doors and windows in cold weather, and consideration for using renewable sources of energy like solar panels for instance.
· Install Solar Panels, as these reduce costs whilst being virtually maintenance free and lasting for more than 20-25 yrs.
In conclusion, business electricity savings should be considered as a top priority for all businesses. Your business electricity broker should be advising you on this subject and both business gas and electricity brokers should know about different costings for electricity at different times of the day.
Additionally, your electricity broker should have knowledge about savings from power factor correction and voltage optimisation, both of which involve adding apparatus to lower the energy use and resultant billing cost.
Overall, it is important that clients have access to the usage data in order to make these valuable decisions and get their long-term savings. Our Utility Brokers and Consultants in the UK can help or advice you on the best ways to manage your business energy costs. Give us a call today on 01746 335348.
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