Energy Optimisation, Investigation and Insight

Inenco has 25TW (£2.4bn) energy under management, which could power the whole of Ireland for an entire year!
We have one quarter of the total energy use by UK Industry under management
Our customers are paying 48% less than the market price for their gas commodity. That's a saving of £480k per £1m that would have been spent
Our experts process over 93,000 invoices per month and we've recovered over £11m in over-charges for our clients in the last year
Inenco look after 8,000 customers across the group, managing 140,000+ meter sites
We provide support to over 500 businesses for energy and carbon management
Inenco supported over 320 organisations with ESOS Phase 1 compliance and carried out more energy surveys than any other independent consultant in the UK
Our solutions team have identified savings of £37.5m per annum for our clients, a total of 495,338,992 kWh savings identified
Last year we saved our CCA clients alone £25.5m

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Expertise and insight to support your strategy

Our Investigation team is made up of experienced analysts and qualified engineers, working together to conduct thorough examinations of your data and organisation to help inform new strategies. We’ll conduct on-site energy surveys, work with you to fully understand your organisation, and use the latest analysis tools to form a total picture of your energy usage, helping us to inform both energy reduction strategies and determine the feasibility and potential performance of new projects before investing in any new technology or generation. As independent, technology-agnostic experts, you can rest assured that you will receive impartial advice that you can rely on.

“Understand the true viability of projects in terms of their impact, return on investment and feasibility against your core business objectives. ”

David Oliver - Head of Energy Optimisation

Energy Surveys

Without an understanding of what drives your business and without looking at your usage data beforehand, the insight that can be gathered from energy surveying is limited. We pride ourselves in contextualising the facts that the data presents, because without an understanding of the priorities of your business, meaningful recommendations for energy reduction are impossible.

Informed by base data analytics, our energy surveyors visit your business and know where to investigate to understand energy usage and the part it plays in your business. Alongside electricity and gas usage, we can also look at water usage on site and transport, to give you a full picture of energy consumption, environmental impact and carbon footprint. We’ll provide you with a bespoke roadmap to cost and consumption savings, from employee engagement to implementation of new systems and technologies.

Alongside looking at electricity and gas usage, we can also look at water usage on site and transport, to give you a full picture of energy consumption, environmental impact and carbon footprint.

Rather than providing you with a report which may be shelved or pushed down the priority list, we go beyond simple recommendations for energy reduction by looking at supply, demand, management and delivery; backed up by robust savings projections.

What is the benefit to you?

The core benefit of using our energy survey solution is that we will tailor our survey process and outputs to suit your business. If you do not have capex to fund a large scale project, or have a risk averse attitude to new technology, we present the facts and then tailor our recommendations to suit you.

What we provide is a bespoke roadmap to your energy efficiency cost savings, offering a balanced view of energy reduction opportunities, whether this be through management of the people in your business, or through implementation of new systems and technologies.

What kind of organisation is this product designed for?

Any organisation who wants to look at utility reduction initiatives but has not had the time or motivation to take it forward. We can also provide a benefit to any organisation who has been through energy surveys but not extracted maximum value form these, or those that have yet to look at their water and transport usage.

What information do we need to get started?

Any utility data, from fiscal meters, AMR meters or sub meters.
Information on operating patterns, shift patterns, timing of production runs etc
Insight into your business, its cultures, activities, attitudes and drivers.

Feasibility Studies

Our engineers can conduct comprehensive feasibility studies to assess the practical, technical and commercial merits of an energy-related project, from new investments to optimising existing assets. From high level investigations to in-depth due diligence and developing the business case, we can offer bespoke support.

Our feasibility studies include:

Site reviews of on-site generation, energy reduction and/or demand-side management schemes
Investigation of the costs and benefits of installing CHP
Review of potential for renewable generation
Review of potential for renewable heat
Advice, design and accreditation of heat networks.

Our financial modelling can provide you with a complete picture of the economies behind any given project, using forecasting of energy and non-energy costs to build up a comprehensive overview of payback periods and income.

The reviews we carry out are completely flexible to your requirements; we can carry out high level investigations, in-depth due diligence, optimisation and development of business cases. This solution is not just for those embarking on new projects: if you are looking to optimise existing assets then we have a solution to suit you.

We combine the expertise of Inenco’s consultancy division with support from a team of energy trading and renewables experts, to offer a solution that truly stands out from the crowd. We believe in providing a holistic technical and commercial analysis of projects, complete with insightful advice on the practicalities of implementing a project.

What is the benefit to you?

What is the benefit to you?
We will arm you with an in-depth knowledge about the costs of implementing renewable and low carbon policies within your own corporate social responsibility framework. The information we provide will be invaluable in helping you to decide whether to implement a project yourself, get third party funding or redirect attention to a more viable project.

The insight which Inenco provide can then be used to build investment grade business cases, enabling you to secure the funding you need to move your project forwards. We can also assist you with applications for funding, design specification, project management, and contract services. In short, everything you need to get things moving. Plus, we’re completely independent, so you can rest assured that you’re getting impartial advice you can rely on.

What kind of organisation is this product designed for?

Any organisation who has identified projects but has not had the time or sufficient information to build a persuasive case for implementation. We can also provide a benefit to any organisation that has had a proposal from a developer or a technology provider and wishes to verify the claimed benefits of the project.

What information do we need to get started?

The information we need to carry out the work is project specific, however the information we need falls under these broad categories.

Electricity and gas/oil/lpg consumptions ;
Energy costs (£/MWh excl. fixed charges);
Site specific demand factors, such as operating hours per week;
Description of how heat is generated and how heat is used on site.

Why Choose Inenco

We combine the expertise of Inenco’s analysts and engineers with support from a team of energy trading and renewables experts, to offer a holistic technical and commercial analysis of projects, complete with insightful and impartial advice on the practicalities of implementing a project.

We use our in-depth knowledge of the market to provide you with information about the costs of implementing renewable and low carbon policies to help you to decide whether to implement a project yourself, get third party funding or redirect attention to a more viable project.