How an energy consultant can help your business

When you’re running a business, your main focus is on operations, sales, and essentially, making your business a success. Very often, not much thought is paid to your business’s energy issues as there are far more important business-related tasks to manage. That is until your energy bill arrives. That’s when you realise you may need to pay more attention to energy-related issues and with rising energy costs, it may be time to hire an energy consultant.

What is an energy consultant?

Consultants are not new to businesses that use them to enhance productivity and performance in various aspects of the organisation. An energy consultant does the same thing but for improving energy-related issues such as optimising energy usage, saving energy costs, and helping the organisation become environmentally friendly and conscious. Energy consultants are experienced, highly-skilled, and trained individuals specialising in identifying issues that affect energy efficiency. They help businesses build plans that propel their operations toward improved energy performance, which ultimately, has a positive impact on the business’s net profits.

Why should you hire an energy consultant?

Whether your business is small, medium-sized, or large, an energy consultant can help you find solutions that work best for your organisation. The ultimate goal is to achieve high energy savings. They are experts in understanding how to reach an organisation’s energy goals as well as how to surpass them. If your business has multi-structures with complex energy profiles or multiple offices and manufacturing facilities, hiring an energy consultant will be an invaluable investment.

What are the biggest reasons to hire energy consultants?

· Industry-specific knowledge and expertise

Energy consultants understand the nuances and impact of energy plans and how small changes and features can have a major impact on the bottom line. They can offer you industry-specific solutions instead of a ‘one size fits all kind of solution. Generic and ill-informed energy solutions can quickly lead to high operational costs. An energy consultant will analyse your organisation’s energy usage and offer advice on various ways to reduce energy costs that you might not have ever considered.

· Energy procurement

A crucial aspect of an energy consultant’s job is to help a business with energy procurement. Energy consultants have strong relationships with suppliers and know how to work with them to augment energy deals in a way that normal consumers would not have been able to. Energy consultants can also help organisations find the latest, eco-friendly energy solutions to help your business save thousands, if not, millions on energy bills while improving energy performance.

· Reduction of overall usage and achieving 100% compliance

Businesses used to only focus on their financial bottom line, but today, things have changed and it is fundamental to consider an organisation’s environmental and social responsibilities. To this end, an energy consultant can help align an organisation’s goals to larger public goals such as reducing energy wastage, opting for green-friendly energy options, and ensuring 100% compliance with energy obligations, such as ensuring your business complies SECR (Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting) legislation.