• TM44 Air conditioning Energy Assessments—When and Why?

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    Having an air conditioning system inspected by an accredited air conditioning energy assessor is designed to improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, operating costs and the carbon emissions of the system. The energy assessor will highlight improvements to the operation of existing systems or opportunities to replace older, less energy efficient systems or oversized systems with new energy efficient systems. When air conditioning inspections are required: All air conditioning systems with an effective rated output of more than 12kw must be regularly inspected by an energy assessor.

    The inspections must be no more than five years apart. The regulations require the first inspection of the affected air conditioning systems to be carried out as follows:

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  • The Utility Rollover Trap

    Posted by Axion on March 18th, 2015

    The Rollover trap – How to avoid Automatic Contract Renewals costing you money

    It has become standard practice now for all energy companies to simply roll over energy contracts when they come to an end into a new fixed term contract. This is what is termed a `rollover’.

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  • UK energy prices – how does your business compare?

    Posted by on January 30th, 2015

    Our graphs below show the average gas and electricity prices paid in the 2nd Quarter of 2014 for non-domestic consumers based on their consumption. Do these prices match with what you are paying?

    Graph 1 – average electricity prices for the 2nd quarter of 2014, banded according to size of consumption.

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