Today’s businesses are increasingly skilled at spotting ways to make savings – across the board savings at every level of their organisation. Savvy accounts and finance departments often identify their enterprise’s energy consumption as a place where less energy can be wasted and more money saved. Here’s three of the most innovative and effective business energy solutions with a proven track record:
1. Low Carbon Generated Energy. Ask your business energy provider about low-carbon business deals. These often offer far better value than a standard business tariff and are certainly the more sustainable option, helping to stabilise energy costs. Due to the nature of the low-carbon fuel sources, which are either nuclear-generated or derive from renewables, the provider is not so bound to the wholesale gas and oil markets, so can usually offer a fixed price rate over several years, making this solution perfect for more accurate financial planning and budgeting.
2. Making business premises green. If a company has many different sites and a great deal of infrastructure, then it greatly pays to reduce the energy cost at these facilities. Installing such items as solar photovoltaic panels on roofs throughout sites, upgrading air conditioning units and water heaters, plus replacing all bulbs with more energy-efficient alternatives really makes a difference, saving on energy bills and reducing an enterprise’s carbon emissions to boot. Business energy suppliers often offer a consultancy service to help maximise the efficiency of a greening operation, so it’s worth asking your current provider if this is available.
3. Energy audits. Whether carried out internally, through a government initiative, or by a business energy consultant, an energy audit is a fantastic way to identify energy wastage across an enterprise. An energy audit should be just as forensic as a financial one, leaving no stone unturned in the quest to find areas for improvement. Often carried out as a prelude to the greening of business premises referred to above, energy audits will identify such problems as non-existent or inadequate insulation, creaky or obsolete boilers and heating systems, plus suggestions for alternative energy sources. An energy audit does not have to be Holy Writ, but if properly carried out, it’s a fantastic starting point for completely remodelling a business’s energy policy.
