May 9, 2024 Georgia Young
Energy Consultancy: The benefits of a holistic approach
In the realm of energy management, it is important to understand the difference between an energy broker and an energy consultant. While both play distinct roles, opting for an energy consultant offers a deeper dive into strategising and forecasting, tailored to your business’s needs.
What is energy consultancy?
Working with an energy consultancy is a great way for organisations and businesses to identify ways to reduce costs and optimise their energy usage. Consultants can work alongside businesses to identify inefficiencies and make recommendations of how to enhance the overall performance of their sites. This advice can be aligned with a business’s sustainability ambitions, enabling them to save money, energy and carbon.
What’s the difference between an energy broker and an energy consultant?
While some consultants are also brokers, it’s important to get the right kind of help. If you know exactly what you need, a broker can be enough, but an energy consultant will spend more time ensuring the deal is right for you.
An energy consultancy might have an in-house team which can analyse your carbon footprint or help create a strategy that helps with compliance such as ESOS and SECR. As an energy consultancy, Amber is unique as we have both an in-house trading team to help with buying your energy, and an in-house team of Net Zero experts.
What are the benefits and opportunities of working with an energy consultant?
Start with the strategy: By working with an energy consultant, clients can access the best energy offers by starting with the needs of the business and establishing a tailored strategy to fulfil their energy requirements.
Improved forecasting: Energy consultants create procurement strategies by using historical data for accurate cost forecasts.
Savings on energy bills: Energy professionals can help you analyse market trends to identify cost-saving opportunities tailored to your business’s risk tolerance and financial objectives.
Amber’s holistic approach to consultancy
A good consultant will try and understand your business more holistically. You employ them to advise you and help you own your strategy, whereas a broker is more likely to be interested in completing a deal as efficiently as possible.
Our in-house experts mean that we have a fully holistic approach to energy consultancy.
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