With energy rates currently on the rise, it all seems like doom and gloom.
Not necessarily! We should be shopping around for the best deal, for the cheapest electricity and cheapest gas prices as we do for insurance.
By doing this, we can obtain better rates than simply staying with the existing supplier.
By allowing specialist brokers to work for you, your time is freed up to concentrate on your main business where you will be more productive.
We can navigate around the problems that are all too common, time-consuming and confusing.
What else can be done to keep our costs down? Quite simply, we need to manage and adjust our energy usage habits.
Often these can be fairly basic practices, U-GET Consultancy Services can advise with this.
Monitoring your energy usage, pin-pointing trends and anomalies and acting on this is the way forward.
Smart meters are being introduced with the perception that this will cure our ineffective routine and reduce bills - not if we do nothing with our data.
A simple and effective procedure is to use an Energy Monitor, clipping the transmitter to your meter and sending information to the energy monitor, with the data able to be viewed on your pc.
This is a great introduction to energy management for business and homes.
With rising energy prices, now, more than ever, we are in a position to take responsibility to not only find the cheapest energy rates, but look at ways to reduce our energy consumption.
We are now able to monitor our energy usage habits and in doing so, can make adjustments to the way in which we use energy.
We can do something useful to help reduce our energy costs, in business and at home, even in a rising energy market.
However, we need to take a pro-active approach to it.