Business Energy Saving Tips In 2023

We’ve all seen the news about rising energy prices, but we have seen little coverage of the challenges businesses are facing. We’ve created this top business energy-saving tips guide to help you become more energy efficient and save money. 

Energy prices are at an all-time high thanks to the current energy crisis. Due to this, it’s essential that businesses save energy wherever they can in order to reduce costs. There are many ways in which you can save energy at your company, and luckily, many of them are simple.

Like most things, every little helps, and when multiplied, measures can have an even larger impact on your energy saving. Below, we list a number of energy-saving tips to help you reduce your business energy consumption and cut costs. Doing two or three of these simple measures can add up to much larger savings, especially if every person in your business makes a small effort to contribute to saving on gas and electricity usage.

Our Top Tips For Energy Saving

Below, we outline our top tips for saving energy in your business. Energy saving, as well as ensuring that you choose a suitable energy tariff, can help you get greater control over your energy usage and your overhead costs.

Find out how you can reduce your business gas and electricity consumption here:

1. Dress for the occasion 

This goes for all seasons. During winter, wearing a sweater to work means you’ll be able to turn the heating down in your office. Likewise, wearing thinner attire during the summer and cracking a window open can help to reduce your reliance on air conditioning. These simple measures can help you lower your energy use and your bills, as well as reduce your business’s carbon footprint. 

2. Install Office or Shop Thermostats

If you don’t currently have thermostats installed to monitor temperatures in rooms, offices, or the shop floor or workshop of your business, getting one fitted could reduce your gas and electricity bill. It could also lower your carbon footprint by approximately 280kg a year. 

3. Switch off standby mode

You should always encourage staff to turn appliances like laptops, chargers and printers off at the switch instead of leaving them on standby mode. A significant amount of energy is wasted on what is known as “phantom power” each year. Phantom power is the electricity used by appliances when they are left in standby mode. It was previously reported that if everyone in the UK turned their PCs off overnight instead of leaving them on standby, it would save potentially more than £ 30 million across the UK on business energy bills. Plus, with energy rates on the rise, this figure is likely to increase significantly.

4. Draught-proof your working space 

A simple yet highly effective energy-saving measure. Sealing any holes or cracks in door and window frames can help you save money on your gas bill. Draught-proofing helps to prevent warm air from escaping from your offices in the winter, it also stops cold air from entering. This measure also helps to keep your rooms cool during the summertime. 

5. Avoid Covering Radiators and Remember to Bleed them!

You should avoid placing desks or furniture in front of radiators, as they’ll absorb heat and make your radiators less efficient at heating rooms and offices. This might require you to reshuffle a few things in your office, but this will be more than worth it once you see the difference in your temperatures and your energy bills. Bleeding your radiators periodically can also help to keep them as efficient as possible and help to prevent energy wastage.

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