As business owners there’s a lot that you can do to improve energy efficiency to cut costs and run your business more sustainably. Regulation and changes in law may mean these improvements will become absolutely essential in the very near future. Efficiency improvements in your physical assets as well as ways of working can have a real, beneficial impact to your bottom line and emissions. According to the Energy Saving Trust (2022) the average SME could reduce its energy bills by 18-25% by undertaking energy efficient measures and by making behaviour changes to reduce energy demand. Here are some examples of the smaller and bigger changes you can make to become more energy efficient.
Making your business energy efficient improves your future operating costs, cashflow and resilience, while contributing to a more habitable planet for generations to come. For our own business, we aim to have net zero emissions of greenhouse gases as soon as possible and by 2040 at the latest. As well as our own operations, this includes the assets and activities we finance, and the companies we invest in. So the measures you take as our customer also help us achieve our goal!
