How SMEs can take advantage of the post-ESOS deadline landscape

The Environment Agency's Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) obliges large undertakings with over 250 employees to revise their energy use and come up with more efficient, cost-effective plans for the future. The long-term savings, in most cases, will outweigh the initial cost of hiring lead assessors to audit their energy consumption, meaning that large businesses could be getting a considerable leg-up on their smaller competitors.

 

How, then, are businesses with fewer than 250 employees to take advantage of this? The answer is simpler than you’d imagine.

 

External lead assessors, who will have been in extremely high demand over the past year, may well find that this demand lessens somewhat by February 2016. Smaller undertakings, therefore, are ideally placed to enlist their services, potentially uncovering comparable proportional savings at a reduced rate.

 

Given that there is no obligation for smaller businesses to comply with ESOS, the auditing process can likely be streamlined and simplified as external lead assessors will not be reporting to the Environment Agency. It is entirely plausible that smaller businesses, rather than the larger ones, will benefit most from ESOS.

 

Utilitas Solutions urges owners of businesses with fewer than 250 employees to get in touch for a free consultation. Our experience in the procurement industry and excellent track record allow us to analyse smaller enterprises’ energy consumption and find the best solutions for streamlining their energy plans.