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During high summer, when the temperatures are verging on scorching, it's easy to forget about your business's heating system.

Navigating the energy landscape can be challenging for businesses seeking to balance cost efficiency with sustainability. Yet, among various energy storage systems, such as electric batteries, pumped hydroelectric storage, and compressed air energy storage, one technology has been underappreciated: heat batteries or thermal energy storage systems. This innovative solution could be the key to unlocking significant energy savings and sustainability benefits for your business.

The advent of summer invariably brings with it an increasing reliance on air conditioning systems to mitigate the discomfort of the sweltering heat.

There are several ways in which UK businesses can go green by improving energy efficiency and increasing their reliance on renewable energy sources – but each initiative comes with a cost, and some infrastructure changes can be extremely expensive. Fortunately, there are a variety of government funding schemes, financial incentives, and

With the cost of heating a commercial premises high at the moment, many business owners and commercial landlords are asking the question whether heat pumps are energy-efficient enough to be a viable substitute for gas central heating. In fact, heat pumps are a good option for most large-scale premises, and we recommend that

Portable Appliance Testing(PAT) is a legal requirement in the UK for any business or public organisation that uses ‘portable electrical appliances’. This catchall category covers any mains-powered electrical device that is hand-held or can be moved whilst connected to an electric source – so the PAT test legal requirements cover fridges, kettles, hair dryers, TVs, phone chargers, power leads, extension leads, computer monitors, and so on.

Facilities management (FM) is the coordination and management of the services and operations necessary to maintain and operate a building or complex of buildings. A commercial facilities management strategy covers a wide range of overlapping servicing, maintenance, and repair tasks, in order to ensure the functionality, comfort, sustainability, and efficiency of an organisation’s physical environment.

Energy costs are a huge concern for UK businesses in 2023, with the high cost of electricity and gas forcing up operating overheads and prices, and contributing to inflation throughout the economy. It isn’t just manufacturers and plant operators who are feeling the pinch, but also retail and commercial office businesses, too, who have faced increased energy bills to keep their premises and employees comfortable over the winter.

The switch to LED lighting is increasingly becoming a necessary move for UK businesses, as it becomes more and more crucial to transition away from energy-inefficient and environmentally harmful forms of lighting, towards more affordable and eco-friendly solutions.

In this article, we explain the advantages of LED light bulbs and why 2023 is the time to make the switch.

Electric and hybrid (EV) vehicles are growing in popularity among drivers in the UK, providing greater convenience, lower fuel costs, cheaper road tax – and often lower repair bills than traditional diesel and petrol fuelled cars. But many would-be EV car owners also face challenges setting up an EV charging point at home. In this article, we look at the main issues to consider and what you can do to overcome them.