In the current economic climate business owners should be welcoming methods to cut business energy costs with open arms.

One way to cut costs is through efficiency. In recent years popular awareness of energy waste and efficiency issues has increased dramatically. Energy efficient methods and devices are seen as key to reducing household bills and helping reduce waste in the environment. Unfortunately, it seems small businesses have failed to learn these energy efficiency tricks from households which could be saving them thousands of pounds a year.

Recent EON research highlighted that a huge four million UK small businesses are missing out on £7.7bn per year because of a lack of efficient energy measures. For example, 13 per cent of small businesses admit to leaving the windows open when the air conditioning or heating is on. If you think there are roughly 4.8 million small businesses in the UK, that is a huge 624,000 who admit to a significant waste of energy. In fact, according to EON only 21 per cent of small businesses have any energy efficiency measures in place at all.

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