Understand your energy habits with a smart meter <\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.goodenergy.co.uk\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/new-smart-meter-1.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nIf you haven\u2019t already had one installed, getting a free smart meter is a good place to get started with energy saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A smart meter will make it easier for you to track how much electricity and gas you are using every day – helping you to see in real time the cost of heating your business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find out how to book in your business smart meter installation here. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nGet a business energy audit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Getting an audit of your business’ energy usage is another good way to understand what you’re using and take actions to reduce it. Good Energy’s partner Green Wing Energy Solutions<\/a> offers thorough audits of your existing energy assets, helping to identify inefficiencies. This will be followed up by a thorough report with tailored recommendations. What’s more, they’re offering our customers 10% off for the remainder of 2025.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nWhat happens in a business energy audit?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nImprove the insulation at your business premises<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
There’s little point spending money to heat your business for it just to disappear out through the walls or ceiling. Ensuring your business is well insulated will make it a more pleasant place to work, cut your carbon footprint, and save you money on your energy bills every year. Other things to think about include updating windows and doors to leak less heat<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many businesses need cooling as well as heating, and these can work against each other if they are not kept sufficiently separate. If there is an area of the site where the priority is to keep machinery from overheating, ensure this is insulated from other areas so that the cooling fans aren\u2019t working to chill air that you\u2019ve paid to heat (and vice-versa). If you are a retailer with a fridge section, ensure that there are well-sealed doors on the chiller cabinets so that they don\u2019t pump cold air into the main store area and force the heating system to work unnecessarily hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are often free surveys and grants<\/a> available to businesses that want to be greener – so you may not need to pay the full cost of insulating your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\nReplace your gas boiler with a heat pump<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
If your business is heated by a conventional boiler, it will be running on natural gas, a fossil fuel that generates greenhouse gas emissions. Heat pumps operate in a completely different way<\/a>, using electricity to transfer heat from the air to your heating system. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGood Energy now offers heat pump installations for businesses and can support you to explore green grants<\/a> to bring down the cost of your installation.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nFind out more about commercial heat pumps<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nTry different ways of working<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Just making small tweaks to the way your sites are used can achieve significant savings in your energy use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turn down the thermostat. <\/strong>The Energy Saving Trust estimates<\/a> that a three-bedroom semi-detached home could save \u00a355 and 300kg of carbon emissions every year by turning the thermostat down one degree; obviously these savings will be greater for larger sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\nBut remember that guidance for workplaces suggests a minimum temperature of 16\u00b0C, or 13\u00b0C if employees are doing physical work<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nUpgrade the controls.<\/strong> Heating controls and thermostats have become more sophisticated in recent years, so upgrading these could help to save energy even without making any changes to the heating system itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\nEvaluate site usage.<\/strong> You may achieve even bigger savings by assessing how well your heating programme matches use of the site. The patterns of occupancy could well have changed since you last checked: are any parts of the site being heated while empty? <\/p>\n\n\n\nOptimise working patterns.<\/strong> Could you optimise your employees\u2019 working patterns so that you need to spend less time heating the site? At Good Energy, the majority of our staff work in a hybrid format with just one or two days in the office each week. There is evidence that it improves both productivity and job satisfaction<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.goodenergy.co.uk\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/B2B-ZapMap-2023_-75-x1280-1024x682.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSwitch to green gas \u2013 but avoid the greenwash<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
If moving away from a conventional gas boiler isn\u2019t a practical option for your business, you can still cut your impact on the climate by switching to a green gas tariff. At present, the mix in the UK grid is only about 1% green gas (biomethane) which means that most suppliers offering a green gas tariff have to use carbon offsetting. But the type of offsetting is crucial. Check out our\u00a0three-point checklist<\/a>\u00a0for advice on finding a genuinely green gas supplier.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nGood Energy is completely upfront about the proportion of UK-sourced biomethane we buy (10%) and how our offsetting works (by investing in Gold standard projects<\/a> that increase access to renewable energy around the globe).<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis commitment to transparency means that our business customers can show their stakeholders exactly what they are doing about their climate impact.<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIf you haven\u2019t already had one installed, getting a free smart meter is a good place to get started with energy saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A smart meter will make it easier for you to track how much electricity and gas you are using every day – helping you to see in real time the cost of heating your business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find out how to book in your business smart meter installation here. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Getting an audit of your business’ energy usage is another good way to understand what you’re using and take actions to reduce it. Good Energy’s partner Green Wing Energy Solutions<\/a> offers thorough audits of your existing energy assets, helping to identify inefficiencies. This will be followed up by a thorough report with tailored recommendations. What’s more, they’re offering our customers 10% off for the remainder of 2025. There’s little point spending money to heat your business for it just to disappear out through the walls or ceiling. Ensuring your business is well insulated will make it a more pleasant place to work, cut your carbon footprint, and save you money on your energy bills every year. Other things to think about include updating windows and doors to leak less heat<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many businesses need cooling as well as heating, and these can work against each other if they are not kept sufficiently separate. If there is an area of the site where the priority is to keep machinery from overheating, ensure this is insulated from other areas so that the cooling fans aren\u2019t working to chill air that you\u2019ve paid to heat (and vice-versa). If you are a retailer with a fridge section, ensure that there are well-sealed doors on the chiller cabinets so that they don\u2019t pump cold air into the main store area and force the heating system to work unnecessarily hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are often free surveys and grants<\/a> available to businesses that want to be greener – so you may not need to pay the full cost of insulating your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your business is heated by a conventional boiler, it will be running on natural gas, a fossil fuel that generates greenhouse gas emissions. Heat pumps operate in a completely different way<\/a>, using electricity to transfer heat from the air to your heating system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Good Energy now offers heat pump installations for businesses and can support you to explore green grants<\/a> to bring down the cost of your installation. Just making small tweaks to the way your sites are used can achieve significant savings in your energy use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Turn down the thermostat. <\/strong>The Energy Saving Trust estimates<\/a> that a three-bedroom semi-detached home could save \u00a355 and 300kg of carbon emissions every year by turning the thermostat down one degree; obviously these savings will be greater for larger sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But remember that guidance for workplaces suggests a minimum temperature of 16\u00b0C, or 13\u00b0C if employees are doing physical work<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Upgrade the controls.<\/strong> Heating controls and thermostats have become more sophisticated in recent years, so upgrading these could help to save energy even without making any changes to the heating system itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Evaluate site usage.<\/strong> You may achieve even bigger savings by assessing how well your heating programme matches use of the site. The patterns of occupancy could well have changed since you last checked: are any parts of the site being heated while empty? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Optimise working patterns.<\/strong> Could you optimise your employees\u2019 working patterns so that you need to spend less time heating the site? At Good Energy, the majority of our staff work in a hybrid format with just one or two days in the office each week. There is evidence that it improves both productivity and job satisfaction<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n If moving away from a conventional gas boiler isn\u2019t a practical option for your business, you can still cut your impact on the climate by switching to a green gas tariff. At present, the mix in the UK grid is only about 1% green gas (biomethane) which means that most suppliers offering a green gas tariff have to use carbon offsetting. But the type of offsetting is crucial. Check out our\u00a0three-point checklist<\/a>\u00a0for advice on finding a genuinely green gas supplier.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good Energy is completely upfront about the proportion of UK-sourced biomethane we buy (10%) and how our offsetting works (by investing in Gold standard projects<\/a> that increase access to renewable energy around the globe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This commitment to transparency means that our business customers can show their stakeholders exactly what they are doing about their climate impact.<\/p>\n\n\nGet a business energy audit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\nImprove the insulation at your business premises<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Replace your gas boiler with a heat pump<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\nTry different ways of working<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSwitch to green gas \u2013 but avoid the greenwash<\/h4>\n\n\n\n