Here's how you can be in more control as an indie retailer with a smart meter

Take control of your energy use with a smart meter

With energy costs rising, many businesses are understandably worried about the impact of higher bills. A smart meter could help your business avoid spending more on energy than it needs to.

Bills are based on how much energy you’ve used

Firstly, having a smart meter means your business gets a bill based on how much energy you’ve used –not an estimate. That’s invaluable if you’ve taken steps recently to reduce your energy use. It could be good news from a cashflow perspective too, especially if your energy use increases or decreases in line with your sales. Your bills will reflect that.

Insight into how and when you use energy

As in so many aspects of business life, more information is vital to being –and feeling –more in control. If spiralling energy costs are one of the things keeping you awake at night right now, it may be the perfect time to get a smart meter for your business.

Smart meters offer further benefits for businesses because they track how much energy you use when providing you with a valuable source of insight into your operations.

While businesses don’t typically get the instant information that in-home displays offer to domestic smart meter users, many suppliers are able to provide data about business energy usage. By analysing that, many businesses have been able to spot opportunities to reduce their energy use.

That could be something as simple as ensuring computers are switched off outside working hours. Making such small savings on a daily basis can then add up to a more substantial benefit over time.

Or it might allow you to calculate the financial benefits of changing to low-energy lighting for your overnight display or investing in more efficient machinery.

If your business is on a time-of-use tariff, you could go further still and change shift patterns or working hours to make use of the lower rates, view more information here. 

Installation at your convenience 

When organising your installation appointment, you can agree to a time and date that best suits you, so there’s no disruption to your business. Many small businesses can get a smart meter at no extra cost, but it depends on your energy supplier and tariff.

To find out more, talk to your energy supplier about smart meters for businesses: a vital way to help you stay in control of your energy use.

Ask your energy supplier for a smart meter for your business or search ‘get a smart meter’ today

Some properties can’t get a smart meter yet but will be able to get one before the end of the rollout. Your energy supplier can tell you if you can have one. They can also tell you how soon you can get one installed.

Contact Smart Energy GB for more information

 
 

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