To help your office kick-start its energy efficiency journey, Current Cost is giving away a free EnviR energy monitor to lucky winners. The latest hot new device from Current Cost will also come with a bundle of energy-monitoring technologies to equip the whole office!
To enter, simply click on the 'register now' button and fill in a few details about you and your company. At the end of January, Current Cost will announce the names of six businesses which will each win a high tech Current Cost EnviR energy monitor, an innovative device which helps UK offices and homes to identify energy wastage.
Businesses in the UK are to receive extra help from the Government if they sign-up for renewable energy initiatives. A new website - Community Energy Online - has been launched which is designed to show organisations how to generate electricity and take advantage of the incentives. The site will offer businesses, local authorities and community groups detailed advice and case studies showing how to select and implement local low carbon and renewable energy projects.
Climate Minister Greg Barker said: "With the right combination of incentives and freedoms, community groups, businesses and organisations can get together to build a cleaner, greener future. They can generate their own heat and electricity, and their own profits, and as a by-product, help the UK to save energy and help to cut carbon emissions."
CEO is being administered by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and will offer guidance on how organisations can start small-scale energy generation projects. The site provides advice about how to raise the necessary finance, select the right technology, comply with regulations, and qualify for relevant incentives such as the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) and Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).
A new energy survey from Current Cost, the largest global provider of energy monitoring real time displays (RTDs), has shown that many people are not taking advantage of the competitive energy market and keeping track of the price that they are charged for electricity.
The survey, which was conducted amongst householders from across the country, revealed that over 66% of respondents did not know which electricity tariff they are currently being charged - despite the fact that the process of switching supplier and keeping track of the price charged for electricity should be easy in the deregulated UK market. The majority (59%) of users that did know what tariff they were on said that they did not plan their usage around off-peak times, something which is significant from an environmental perspective because off-peak, night-time energy is less reliant on fuel consumption.
For households that are able to easily manage energy usage, the most obvious advantage of the off-peak tariff is cost. Yet the fact that some of these tariffs charge almost double the rate of a standard tariff for any energy used during the 'peak' times, can quickly cancel out any savings and even result in a higher bill compared with an ordinary tariff. "I was surprised to discover that more people are not keeping a close eye on their electricity tariffs," says Current Cost managing director, Martin Dix. "The findings also suggest that the financial and environmental advantages of off-peak usage are unclear to many people. It's also possible that users simply feel it is too inconvenient to plan their electricity usage. Act on energy waste!
"The best way to cut the cost of energy bills overall is firstly to identify and cut back on the amount of electricity that is wasted around the home and then to get online to find the most competitive tariff for your household's individual usage. Cutting energy wastage can also reduce our individual carbon footprint."
First-time home energy monitor user and technology expert, Andrew Westgarth, gives us a low-down on how he has put Current Cost technologies to use around his Sunderland home.
