Turn energy data into strategic action. Energise business energy audits provide actionable insights. Improve business energy efficiency and reduce your overheads
What is an Energy Audit?
An energy audit is a detailed check of organisational energy use. It reviews energy use, highlights wasted energy, and finds energy saving opportunities. Analysis of equipment, systems, and operational behaviours provide a full energy view.
Whether your aim is business energy efficiency, saving money, cutting carbon emissions, operational improvements, or staying compliant.
How Energy Audits help
An energy audit is a step toward making informed, effective changes.
The insights gained help you; prioritise and justify investment, support sustainability goals, and enhance long-term resilience.
Business energy audits form a key part of an energy management strategy. They can support business energy monitoring and inform your net zero strategy.
They help you create real action to achieve net zero emissions.
How Energy Audits benefits business
Reduce Energy Costs
Identify inefficiencies in your energy usage. An energy audit highlights areas of overspending.
Implementing improvements often leads to big reductions in overheads.
Reduce Energy Emissions
Energy audits help you take measurable steps to reduce emissions.
This benefits the planet and can help your reputation among customers and wider stakeholders.
Comply with Regulation
Regulations such as ESOS require regular energy audits.
Staying compliant avoids penalties and demonstrates your commitment to responsible business energy management.
Get the Competitive Edge
Actively managing your energy use can position you better.
Lower operating costs and improved environmental credentials can be powerful differentiators in today’s market.
Get started with your business energy audit today
Whether you’re looking to meet compliance requirements or improve your business energy efficiency, our expert team is here to help.
What’s included in our Energy Audits service
We make energy surveys and audits clear and practical. You focus on your operations while we handle the details.
Our service includes:
Detailed data requests and scheduling – We request granular energy data such as half-hourly readings and floor plans for what is being surveyed.
Pre-survey analysis – Our Analysts review all available data and prepare information packs for our Consultants. This ensures surveys target significant energy users, key areas of focus, and patterns of energy use.
Building surveys – Consultants meet site contacts to access required areas and answer queries. We identify opportunities to reduce energy use. Each building is modelled in specialist software to assess impacts, costs, and payback periods.
Fleet surveys – Consultants meet fleet managers or vehicle owners to review operations and access vehicles. We identify energy and fuel reduction opportunities.
Grey fleet assessments – Using collected and requested data, we complete desk-based assessments for personal vehicles used for business travel.
Each survey receives a report detailing; energy data analysis, energy efficiency and generation opportunities, and potential offsetting options to move towards Net Zero.
With each survey, you receive clear recommendations and practical steps to reduce energy use and emissions across your operations.
Who most benefits from an Energy Audit?
Our energy audits are aligned to the ISO 50002 standard and industry best practice. We have a range of energy audits types available that means we have the solution based on your objectives and operations.
Energy Audits are most beneficial to those that:
- Are looking to initially identify or further find energy saving opportunities
- Want to turn early ideas into detailed plans ready to engage contractors
- Need to comply with ESOS, or support their ISO 50001 system
- Want to explore feasibility of implementing renewable energy projects
Supporting Bidfood in Achieving Significant Energy and Cost Savings
With a strong commitment to advancing energy efficiency, Bidfood participates in the UK’s Climate Change Agreement (CCA) scheme. The CCA scheme supports their drive to meet ambitious efficiency targets and demonstrates their dedication to responsible energy management, with the added benefit of receiving Climate Change Levy (CCL) reductions for achieving those goals.
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Energy Audits FAQs
Yes. Energy audits can support compliance with regulations like ESOS, SECR and ISO 500001. They can also help you meet your own energy saving or sustainability goals.
Whilst many of our customers initiate energy audits for their business in response to external requirements, we help them integrate the benefits into their wider Sustainability or Net Zero strategy.
Energy Audits help businesses:
- Cut energy bills
- Improve operational efficiency
- Meet sustainability goals
- Comply with environmental regulations (ESOS, SECR, ISO500001)
- Identify opportunities for renewable energy integration
- Create tailored actions to support your Net Zero business commitment.
Our audits are carried out by qualified energy consultants with expertise in a range of sectors. Energise have:
- 6 ESOS Lead Assessors (1.5% UK capacity)
- 5 CIBSE Low Carbon Consultants
- 2 ISO500001 lead assessors
Our Energy Audit Consultants follow industry best practices and use advanced tools to ensure accurate analysis.
Depending on the reason for your audit, we will work with you to plan the right sample size for your operations. Then the process typically includes:
- Initial data review and analysis
- Site visit
- Analysis of energy bills and usage patterns
- Identification of improvement opportunities
- A detailed report with actionable recommendations aligned with Net Zero
ESOS (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme) is run by the Environment Agency. Complying businesses need an external Energy Audit (by a qualified lead assessor) in each 4 year period.
Each compliance period (Phase 4 runs until 5 December 2027 – the compliance date) requires businesses to get an external energy audit and identify energy saving opportunities.
The ‘qualification dates’ for Phase 4 is 31 December 2026. That means if your business meets the criteria on the compliance date, you need to submit an ESOS return to the EA.
Companies that need to comply with ESOS Phase 4 are those who have 250+ employees in the UK, OR an annual turnover over £44 million and a balance sheet over £38 million.
If you have had to comply with ESOS before, but no longer meet the criteria on the compliance date, get in touch to check whether you need to complete a return.
ESOS can offer a huge amount of value to your business and your sustainability strategy. You can complete your Energy Audit at any point in the compliance period. This can be a useful way to make it work for you – you don’t have to wait for 2027! If you’re looking to upgrade your offices or examine your Net Zero action plan, it could support you in the process.
Costs vary depending on the size and complexity of your premises. If you are pursuing compliance with ESOS Phase 4, you will usually save money by completing your audit earlier in the compliance cycle.
The level of Energy Audit will also impact the cost – our Investment Grade audts usually build on an initial Energy Audit.
Get in touch for a cost estimate.
No. Energy and Carbon are related, but not the same. You can read more in our blog: “Is reducing energy use the same as reducing carbon?“
During an Energise energy audit, our expert consultants review your business. They look for opportunities to save energy, improving energy efficiency across your operations.
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