Utilities are players with whom we all interact. We all contract energy for our businesses and homes, and at some point, we want to compare offers to see who offers the best service. Last week we looked at the annual energy management survey responses and discussed the current challenges and objectives of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs).

We were glad to have gathered data from various Utilities in our Energy Management Report, which you can download here.

In this article, we want to focus on utilities. We will look at the market situation in the UK, and the customer attrition rate and also discuss the energy efficiency services that utilities can offer to their customers.

This article may reflect some of your key challenges if you work for a Utility company. So please let us know if you think what you find in this article is similar to one or more of your own experiences.

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If you follow us on social media or are an avid reader of our blog, you will have noticed that the results of our survey “The State of Energy Management 2022” have been released and that you can now download our report for free.

As in previous editions, this year we also focused on Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), the challenges they faced in 2022, their priorities for 2023 and the trends they believe will shape the energy landscape in the upcoming years. 

In this article, we will have a closer look at the results.

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Last December, we asked you to participate in our Energy Management survey and more than 250 of you responded favourably!

The survey was aimed at companies directly related to energy, such as ESCOs or energy suppliers, but also at companies from other sectors such as the tertiary sector or facility management. The results were analysed and synthesised to give an overview of the opinion of all these professionals on the challenges and trends in energy management. 

To learn more about the challenges, priorities and trends in energy management in 2022, we invite you to download for free our energy report here. 

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The real estate market is a sector that can be qualified as volatile, this is no secret. It went from being a safe, easy and stable investment to high risk.  The increase in energy demand also has a huge impact not only on this sector but also on others, such as facility management.

In this article, we will have a look at what are the challenges faced by these two sectors.

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2022 is shortly coming to an end…As we all know, this year has been particularly tumultuous marked by an unprecedented energy crisis, requiring a shift in our paradigm and making all of us reconsider our rapport with energy and energy management. As IEA’s 2022 World Energy Outlook report highlighted, “there remain huge uncertainties over how this energy crisis will evolve and for how long fossil fuel prices will remain elevated, and the risks of further energy disruption and geopolitical fragmentation are high”. It has therefore never been so urgent to embrace and invest in renewable energies.

If you are a frequent reader of our articles, you know the drill: every year we publish an article ranking the most-read articles by energy professionals. Curious about the 10 most popular pieces of 2022? Keep on reading!

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A gateway in tech-talk is a device that connects two different networks, allowing information to pass from a network to the Internet.

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Modern businesses, regardless of their types, depend on the extensive use of digital tools and infrastructure. In 2022, you would not see an employee without a laptop or a smart device in any given organisation. For the smooth use of these digital tools, having a communication network in place is a must. 

Indeed, contemporary facilities, from manufacturing plants to skyscrapers, rely on extensive communication networks to connect people and devices to the internet. As you can imagine, the energy consumption of these 24-hour networks is high: In 2021, the global electricity consumption of data centres amounted to 220-320 TWh, or about 0.9-1.3% of the global final electricity demand.  

In this article, we give you some tips to better manage the energy consumption of your communication networks. Whether your company is large or small, you will have to manage data that is often stored in a dedicated room. In this post, we will use data centres to give you concrete examples. Indeed, although these centres are only dedicated to the management and protection of data, you can draw inspiration from their management to reduce the energy consumption of your network devices. Keep reading! 

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On their own, SMEs don’t consume huge amounts of energy, but collectively, their energy demand is a different story. The IEA estimates SMEs consume around 13% of total global energy demand. Yet, approximately 30% of that demand could be eliminated by cost-effective energy efficiency measures, such as implementing energy management software. That would save more energy than Japan and Korea consume in a year!

Which business wouldn’t want that level of savings? Well, according to the Observatory of European SMEs, fewer than 30% of them in Europe have implemented any measures for conserving energy, and, even though 60% plan to reduce carbon impact, just 4% have a comprehensive approach to energy efficiency.

In this article, we will discuss the main challenges faced by SMEs in terms of energy management, the different energy-saving measures they can put in place and the support available. Finally, we will present the release of a new guide that can be downloaded free of charge and is specially designed for SMEs and ESCOs wishing to improve the energy efficiency of this type of company. Enjoy your reading!

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If you are considering incorporating an energy manager into your staff and you are not sure if this professional role will add value to your company, Enrique Pérez (Energy Efficiency Manager at CIRSA) will clarify your doubts in this article:

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One of the main reasons for global warming is the sustained increase of CO2 emissions, trapping heat and warming up the atmosphere. With more frequent storms, landslides or floodings, climate change will make buildings more vulnerable and reduce their lifespan. As energy plays a key role in the management of buildings, in this article, we will discuss the consequences of climate change and increased CO2 emissions on the building’s energy consumption and occupant comfort. For the following calculations, we will use Building Energy Modelling (BEM) to evaluate how an office building will behave in the near (2050) and distant future (2100) compared to the year it was designed (2000). 

As you might know, Dexma uses BEM for many purposes such as simulating the impact of energy efficiency retrofits, estimating the disaggregation of energy consumptions, or evaluating the impact of different scenarios.

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If you work in the energy world, it is not surprising that the ‘language’ is technically complex in nature. While borrowing terms from a range of disciplines, from physics to finance, energy productivity also has its own set of complicated terms and jargon that are likely to appear in any conversation about energy efficiency.

As if that wasn’t complicated enough, the list of energy management acronyms keeps growing (IoT, EMS, aM&T,..). To add to the confusion, a lot of terms sound bewilderingly similar or are used interchangeably even when they shouldn’t be.

So whether you’re a senior energy professional or brand new to the energy game, you need to be equipped with the right vocabulary – so here’s your arsenal of useful terms to know.

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