Energy Efficiency Advice
In addition to purchasing cleaner choice electricity for your business, taking simple and inexpensive steps will lower your energy costs and reduce your carbon emissions.
In the UK, on average, organisations consume unnecessarily up to 30% of the energy they buy, this costs business millions of pounds in lost revenue every year.*
Did you know?
- Lighting an office overnight consumes unnecessarily enough energy to heat water for 1000 cups of tea
- A photocopier left on overnight uses enough energy to produce over 1500 copies
- Leaving a PC monitor on all night wastes enough energy to microwave six dinners
- A compressed air leak the size of a match head wastes enough energy in a working day to toast 444 slices of bread
- Switching off non-essential equipment in an average sized office overnight saves enough energy to run a small car for 100 miles
- A typical window left open overnight in winter will waste enough energy to drive a small car over 35 miles
Take positive steps
Market specific energy saving information
Opus Energy is committed to helping its customers save money and improve their energy efficiency:
- We are offering free Smart Meters to all customers, which enable businesses to focus on their environmental targets and reduce expenditure
- For all customers who have a Smart Meter fitted we can conduct a remote energy consumption review which will identify areas for improving energy efficiency
- We can provide free on-site energy audits, via the Carbon Trust, where energy spend is over £50,000 per year to help our customers identify where to make savings
- As an ongoing commitment to reducing carbon emissions we will continue to secure as much of our power as possible from cleaner electricity sources - for all our customers
To find out more about the energy consumption reviews contact us
* Statistics taken from The Carbon Trust