Tips & Advice
Business Energy Saving Tips
Our team of energy experts have put together some simple tips below that can help towards improving energy efficiency in your business. Combined with better management of your business utilities with help from costgard, you’ll benefit from lower bills and reduced climate impact.
- Turn off office equipment when you’re not using it overnight, at weekends and during bank holidays. Savings on just a single computer and monitor could be up to £35 a year – imagine the saving for a whole office!
- Cut lighting costs by as much as 15% by turning off lights in empty office rooms and replacing bulbs with energy saving ones. These are readily available and have come down considerably in price since they were first introduced.
- Move office furniture away from radiators where possible. The heat will come into the office space better and you will be able to turn down your thermostat.
- Draught proof your windows and doors. According the The Energy Saving Trust, the average sized office can lose around 15 – 20% of its heat through poor insulation of doors and windows alone.
- Turn off taps fully and fix and drips. A constantly dripping tap can cost your business about £400 a year, wasting more that 5,500 litres – a huge extra cost that can be easily avoided.
- Reduce business waste. By minimising waste in your business, you reduce the amount of raw materials used – a great way to impact overall UK energy usage, and you could save up to 4% of your turnover by improving waste management techniques.
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Reducing your environmental impact through saving energy can improve your reputation and corporate image with customers, employees and external stakeholders. Always publicise your commitment to reducing your environmental impact.
An independent study commissioned by SmartestEnergy reveals that consumers are increasingly favouring brands with a commitment to environmental sustainability. The study reveals that 4 out of 5 people describe themselves as likely to choose a brand with a positive approach to environmental sustainability. This clearly demonstrates a development in consumer attitudes towards companies’ approach to the environment; 90% of people agree that it is vital that society becomes more energy-conscious.
However, despite finding considerable consumer interest in environmental issues, the study reveals that 45% of consumers are unaware of practices which businesses have adopted to encourage environmental sustainability. Companies are therefore either not executing eco-friendly practices, or not adequately publicising their environmental impacts