The major UK energy companies have all put their gas and elecrticity prices up by around 10% in the past 12 months or so, and further considerable increases are forecast for the coming years. Expensive energy is here to stay!

 
The best way to deal with this is of course to reduce your consumption: monitor your energy use; improve insulation; upgrade your equipment; recalibrate or reset controls; turn off unused lighting and appliances. Whatever your business, you should be able to reduce or even eliminate the impact of these energy rises.

 

Almost all homes and businesses in the country can benefit from the government’s “Green Deal”.  This is scheme whereby properties can be made by energy efficient by insulation and other measures, and the costs of this paid for by the energy savings made. According to DECC (Dept for Energy & Climate Change), 8^th Dec 2010, “We’re working to make the Green Deal accessible to businesses too – enabling them to access the benefits of savings on energy bills without the need to provide up-front finance… Installations under the Green Deal – domestic or business – will all meet a single key principle: the expected savings must be greater than the cost of the work being done.”  

 

The Green Deal is to come into effect in the autumn of 2012: the bill which covers it was introduced to parliament on the 8^th December 2010. One interesting and innovative aspect of the Green Deal is that the charge for insulation work is against the property, not the owner, so if they move out and cease to be the bill-payer at that property, the financial obligation doesn’t move with them but moves to the next bill payer: the charge is only paid whilst the benefits are enjoyed.

 

This is a low cost way of improving the energy efficiency of your business.
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