Ian Scattergood, Business Development Manager – Healthcare for the Zenergi Group, gives an insight into the energy crisis and the impact on the NHS
Back in 2019, research conducted by Energy Management estimated the energy costs of the UK Public Sector to be around £500m. Taking hospitals in England into consideration alone, that figure is now calculated to have more than doubled when today’s…
With climate change hot on the agenda and businesses becoming increasingly aware of their social and environmental responsibilities, net-zero status is a goal that many are working towards in 2022. Being net-zero means the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced…
After a year unlike any other, forecasting business energy prices has become something of a lottery for anyone other than the best-informed analysts in the market. At Energy Management we have a team of highly-skilled and experienced energy consultants to…
Business energy markets are volatile at the best of times due to the plethora of factors that can drive up prices, and pretty much all of them are outside of a company’s control. But everyone working inside the energy industry…
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions are divided into three different groups or ‘scopes’ by the most widely-used international accounting tool, the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. For Scope 1, companies need to report on emissions relating to owned and controlled aspects of…
Recently there have been calls for the government to introduce measures to alleviate the problems faced by industry in the face of the current energy crisis. Hit by four-fold increases in the cost of electricity and natural gas over the…
With the closing date for the consultation process for ESOS Phase 3 now expired, here’s a reminder about the scheme and who is eligible. What is ESOS? ESOS stands for the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme and was introduced by the…
With industry experts warning that the recent surge in energy prices might be a sign of things to come, it is more important than ever for businesses to manage their energy costs more effectively. Proactive energy procurement and the introduction…
As he prepares to host world leaders next month at a crucial UN climate summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to shift all energy production in the UK to ‘clean’ sources by 2035. By going totally green, the U.K…
With colder weather now arriving it’s easy to think that the energy crisis will get worse before it gets any better. The demand for more heating in homes and offices will only put supply under more pressure and continue to…
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With fears over an energy crisis making headline news and more people returning to the office, there has never been a more pressing time for businesses to implement an energy efficiency strategy. Today energy is climbing up the corporate agenda,…
A pot of money totalling £265milion has been made available by the UK government to support renewable energy projects in the upcoming Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction. The majority (£200m) will be invested in fixed-bottom offshore wind projects, in a…
Daily Telegraph report warns of potential gas shortfalls in the UK if a ‘perfect storm’ materialises.
A blog on edie.net outlines the benefits of public sector energy procurement frameworks as a means of encouraging energy efficiency. Control, choice and competitive pricing are some of the key benefits of an energy procurement framework. But a blog written…
How we’re helping the UK’s leading forecourt operator to become a market leader in EV power. Recent announcements by Asda and Vauxhall have only served to highlight the speed at which the motor industry is shifting from petrol or diesel-powered…
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is currently running a consultation process to seek views on government proposals to update and improve the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme (ESOS). BEIS hopes to strengthen and increase the uptake of…
Businesses of any size can keep their energy spend in check simply by using less energy. Identifying energy efficiency opportunities and then implementing measures to address them will reduce the amount of gas and electricity used. Encouraging an energy efficiency…
With wholesale gas and electricity energy prices rocketing ahead of the October peak month for switching, it now more important than ever for businesses to monitor and review their energy consumption and devise an effective energy procurement strategy. Electricity prices…
What the first half of the year has reminded us of is that there are multiple variables affecting business energy prices, some predictable and others not. Having as much insight as possible into the way different factors may lead to…
Predicting the business energy price markets has been a fairly straightforward exercise over the summer months with the general trend being upward. However, due to a number of factors directly related to the energy industry or not, this is not…
The UK government have brought forward their target to end coal-fired electricity generation by a year as it continues to try and set the agenda on climate change. While the percentage of power generated by the carbon-emitting fossil fuel has…
Driven by the Paris Agreement and the need to meet goals on climate change, environmentally-conscious companies across the world are stepping up their attempts to contribute towards a net zero carbon economy. Understanding the emissions that they generate directly is…
The first half of June has highlighted just how challenging it can be to secure the best business energy deal if you’re not armed with the right information.
If you don’t know where you are, how can you know how to get to where you want to be? That is the question we put to many of our clients when discussing the Climate Change Agreement’s (CCA) Target Period…
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is at its highest ever recorded level, according to US-based scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather station in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide at about 419 parts per million last…
Knowing your megawatts from your megabytes is crucial for booming broadband providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). IT and the internet is one of the boom industries of the last 12 months due to the changing behaviours brought about by…
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) has announced the world’s first comprehensive study on how to transition to a net-zero energy system by 2050. And the message to governments around the world is that they need to up their game to…
The global coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on how much and what type of energy we use globally. During the height of lockdown in 2020, every day was like Sunday in terms of energy use. So dramatic was…