Your meter already knows where the money is going.
We are Clean Energy Management Experts in the UK. We read half-hourly data for commercial and industrial sites, then tell you what to do about it, before anyone tries to sell you a roof full of panels.
We take no commission from any supplier, contractor or funder. Our only income is the fee you agree with us, so there is nothing on this page we are quietly incentivised to talk you into.
Worked example · drag across the chartOne week of half-hourly demand for a typical single-shift manufacturing unit. Every metered site in the UK has a shape like this. Most owners have never seen theirs.
Drag across the chart, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to read any half hour.
of the annual electricity spend on the profile above happens while the building is empty.
Solar is rarely the first answer.
A flat overnight base load like that one is almost always mechanical: compressors, extract fans or chillers left running on a 24/7 contactor because nobody ever set them otherwise. It is usually a few thousand pounds and a fortnight to fix, and on a profile shaped like this it can take more off the annual bill than a rooftop array costing a hundred times as much.
The array can still go in afterwards. It goes in smaller, sized against a load profile that has already been cleaned up, and it earns its payback against real consumption rather than against waste you were about to stop paying for anyway.
That is the whole job. Understand the site first. Spend the capital second.
What is your empty building costing you?
Set your annual electricity spend and how much of your demand never switches off. The figure on the right is what you are paying to keep an empty building running. It is the first number Clean Energy Management Experts in the UK look at, and it is almost always larger than people expect.
a year keeping an empty building energised, on the figures above.
Indicative arithmetic on your own inputs, not a survey result. What it is for is deciding whether a proper half-hourly review is worth an hour of your time.
Only about a third of your bill is electricity.
The rest is network charges, policy levies and taxes, and most of it is negotiable, avoidable or reducible in ways that have nothing to do with your unit rate. Click any band to see what it is and what can be done about it.
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Each part of a commercial electricity bill has a different lever behind it. Some are fixed, some are worth arguing about, and some disappear entirely if you change how the site behaves.
Typical split for a UK non-domestic half-hourly supply, shown to illustrate the shape. Your own bill will differ, and reading yours properly is the first thing we do.
Assess and advise
Fixed-fee pieces of work with a written deliverable at the end. Take it to us, take it to your board, or take it to three installers and hold them to it.
Half-hourly analysis and load profiling
We pull twelve months of HH data from your supplier or data collector and break the site down: base load, occupancy load, peak coincidence, seasonal swing, and how much of the bill each one accounts for. The report every other decision on this page is built on.
Solar and battery feasibility
Array and storage sizing modelled against your actual consumption shape rather than an annual kWh figure: self-consumption, export spill, degradation, and what the numbers look like if your operation grows or shrinks. Sites weighing a first system, or a second one.
Tariff and supply contract benchmarking
A line-by-line read of what you are paying for: unit rates, standing charges, capacity charges, DUoS bands, and the non-commodity costs that are usually the bit nobody has looked at. Benchmarked against current market, with a renewal position to negotiate from. Anyone inside six months of a contract end date.
Grid connection appraisal
Before you design anything: what will the DNO actually let you connect. Existing capacity, headroom on the local network, G98 and G99 route, likely constraint or curtailment conditions, and a realistic view of connection cost and timescale. Stops most of the expensive surprises in this sector.
ESOS energy audits
Full compliance for qualifying organisations: site audits, transport and buildings assessment, the energy saving opportunities register, and lead assessor sign-off ahead of the deadline. Large undertakings caught by the ESOS thresholds.
Net zero and SECR reporting
Scope 1 and 2 emissions, an honest attempt at the Scope 3 that matters, and the narrative to sit alongside them in your directors' report. Plus a reduction plan you can be held to rather than a pledge. Companies caught by SECR, and those being asked by their customers.
EPC and MEES advice for landlords
Where each asset sits against the minimum standard now and against the ratchets coming, which measures move the rating most per pound, and where an exemption is genuinely available rather than wishful. Commercial landlords with a mixed-age portfolio.
Take it to delivery
When the decision is made, someone has to hold the contractors, the DNO and the funder to what they promised. Usually that person also has a day job. As Clean Energy Management Experts in the UK, this is the half of the work that protects the advice.
Project management of third-party installs
We write the specification, run the tender, check the designs, and manage the installer you appoint through to commissioning and handover, including the O&M pack, the warranties and the as-builts that half of these jobs never produce. You choose the contractor. We make sure they deliver it.
Grid connection applications, end to end
Application drafting, the technical pack, DNO correspondence, offer review, and negotiation on connection terms and constraint conditions. Through to acceptance and energisation. The part of the process that most commonly kills a scheme.
Funding structure comparison
Capex, hire purchase, lease, or a PPA, modelled side by side on your numbers, with the balance sheet treatment, the capital allowance position and the exit terms made explicit. PPA heads of terms reviewed before you sign a twenty-five year agreement. Where the difference between two structures is often six figures.
Do the rules actually catch you?
ESOS, SECR and MEES catch different organisations on different tests, and plenty of companies are inside one without knowing. Answer four questions for an indicative read.
Do you have 250 or more employees?
Is annual turnover above £44 million?
Is the balance sheet total above £38 million?
Do you let out any commercial property in England or Wales?
ESOS Answer above
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme catches large undertakings: 250 or more employees, or turnover above £44m together with a balance sheet above £38m.
SECR Answer above
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting catches quoted companies, and large unquoted companies and LLPs meeting two of three tests: 250 employees, £36m turnover, £18m balance sheet.
MEES Answer above
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards bite on commercial property you let. Since April 2023 it has been unlawful to continue letting a commercial property rated F or G without a registered exemption.
Indicative only, and deliberately simplified: group structures, franchises, overseas parents and part-year qualification all change the answer. Confirm it with us before you rely on it either way.
How an engagement runs
Most clients start with the data review and stop there for a while. That is a perfectly good outcome, and it is how most people first use Clean Energy Management Experts in the UK.
Half an hour on the phone
What the site does, what the bills look like, and what has already been quoted. Free, and it will tell you whether there is anything here worth paying for.
We get your data
A signed letter of authority lets us pull twelve months of half-hourly data and your full supply contract directly. Nothing needed from your team beyond a signature.
The report
Two weeks later: where the money goes, what to do about it, ranked by return, with the numbers behind each recommendation shown rather than asserted.
Your call
Act on it yourself, hand it to your existing contractors, or bring us back to run the delivery. No retainer, and no obligation attached to the report.
Start with the data review
Tell us roughly what the site is and we will come back within one working day with whether it is worth looking at and what it would cost. No obligation, and no salesperson will ring you about panels afterwards.
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Clean Energy Management Experts in the UK. Independent advisory: we do not sell or install equipment, we take no commission from any supplier, contractor or funder, and you are free to take any specification we write to your own contractors. The load profile, cost figures and bill split shown on this page are illustrative worked examples, not a specific client site.