Business energy and utilities
Energy is complicated. Your side of it does not have to be.
Making energy make sense. Starting with what you are charged. You pay for capacity you never use. We find it. Most of your bill is not the energy. We show all of it. Our commission is on the rate. Line by line. Nobody has checked your water. We start with the supply points.
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Mapping, Managing, Maximising
Every appointment follows the same three stages. The first two build a verified record of your meters, contracts and invoices; the third acts only on what that record proves. Nothing is recommended that cannot be traced back to a source document.
01
Mapping
Understanding the estate as it stands
Mapping is the audit stage. We review the energy systems in use at each site, from lighting and heating and ventilation through to plant and the working pattern around it, and we benchmark the meters against the consumption they record. That gives a baseline for the estate and shows where energy is being used to no purpose. Anything we cannot confirm from a source document or on site is written down as unconfirmed.
- Site and equipment review, recorded per site
- Meter benchmarking against recorded consumption
- Twelve months of invoices and contract paperwork checked in
- Waste identified: ageing plant, out of hours load, meters no longer in use
What you receive
A written baseline for the estate: every meter, contract and finding traced to its source, with each gap marked as a gap.
02
Managing
The plan, run and recorded day to day
Managing turns the baseline into a written plan for the estate and then runs it. The plan fits the sites, their contract dates and the way they operate. Alongside it we monitor consumption as the meters report it, oversee supplier contracts so renewals are tendered ahead of contract end, validate each invoice against the signed rates, and train the people on site in the part they hold.
- A written energy plan per estate, stating who holds each action
- Consumption monitored as the meters report it
- Supplier contracts overseen, renewals tendered before contract end
- Site teams briefed on the part they hold, in plain language
What you receive
A dated record of every action, held against the site it belongs to and visible to you in Insights at any time.
03
Maximising
Longer term options, costed from the record
Maximising is where the estate is taken further than tariff and invoice. Because stages one and two produce verified data, options such as on site generation, storage and efficiency hardware can be tested against recorded demand rather than an assumption. Each option is costed and modelled from your own figures, alongside the compliance dates it affects and the room the estate needs to grow.
- On site generation and storage tested against recorded demand
- Efficiency hardware options costed, with the calculation shown
- Compliance obligations carried into the plan as dates
- Capacity and growth headroom reviewed as the estate changes
What you receive
A costed list of options with the working shown in writing. You decide what proceeds, and you sign every contract yourself.
Our toolkit
This is the part of the work a switch cannot do for you. Rates only decide the price of what you use; these reviews go after what you are billed for, what capacity you reserve and what your buildings run when nobody is in them. It is how we make energy make sense.
Every line read against the signed contract and the arithmetic checked, so a rate nobody agreed does not get paid twice.
Agreed capacity tested against a full year of recorded demand, so nobody pays for headroom a site never draws.
Half-hourly data drawn as heat maps, so out of hours running is visible before anything is bought or replaced.
Example documents in full
Bill validation, example report
Every line read against the signed contract and the arithmetic checked, so a rate nobody agreed does not get paid twice.
7 pages. Illustrative example, figures invented.
Capacity (kVA) review, example report
Agreed capacity tested against a full year of recorded demand, so nobody pays for headroom a site never draws.
3 pages. Illustrative example, figures invented.
Energy waste report, example report
Half-hourly data drawn as heat maps, so out of hours running is visible before anything is bought or replaced.
4 pages. Illustrative example, figures invented.
Our fee for each review is set out in writing and agreed before we start. Where a change we identify needs implementing, that work is quoted separately and you are free to use your own contractors.
None of this announces itself
Energy problems do not arrive as a crisis. They arrive as a slightly larger number each month, on an invoice nobody has time to question. These are the five we find most often.
The contract lapsed
Nobody diarised the end date, so the supply rolled onto out of contract rates. Those rates are significantly higher than a contracted price, and they are variable, tracking the short term market rather than a rate you agreed. They apply from the day the contract ended.
Nobody checks the invoices
Suppliers make mistakes. Rates are billed that were never agreed, standing charges appear on meters that serve nothing, and estimated readings sit unchallenged for months.
You are paying for capacity you never draw
Agreed capacity is a monthly charge on headroom you reserved, not on what you use. Most sites reserved it once, years ago, and have never tested it against what the meter actually records.
Plant runs all night in an empty building
Half-hourly data already records it. The figure that reaches your office is the total at the bottom of the bill, so nobody ever sees the overnight floor.
Compliance applies, or it does not, and nobody has confirmed which
ESOS, SECR, TM44, heat network registration and letting standards all have different tests. The same company can sit inside one and outside another. Rules of thumb get this wrong.
A half-hourly electricity load profile across one day. Demand sits on a low but clearly non-zero overnight plateau of about 40 kW, rises through the morning to a daytime plateau of about 170 kW, then falls back in the evening to the same overnight level. A horizontal line marks that overnight floor, and the shaded band beneath it runs across all twenty four hours, including the hours when the site is closed and nobody is on site. That floor is bought every night of the year.
The shaded band never stops. It runs every night of the year, in a building nobody is in.
Every one of these is findable from paperwork you already hold. That is where we start, and our fee for the review is set out in writing and agreed before we begin.
The cheapest energy is the energy you do not use
Most firms in this market are paid when you switch supplier, so switching is what they talk about. It matters, and we do it properly. But on most accounts it is not where the largest number sits, and some of what you pay cannot be switched away from at any price.
You cannot switch away from network charges
TNUoS, DUoS and the levies are regulated and reset every April. Every supplier passes them through. Changing supplier does not change them. What does change them is your capacity, your peak demand and when you draw power.
You cannot switch away from capacity you reserved
Agreed capacity is billed monthly on headroom, not usage. It is set once and then forgotten. Correcting it costs nothing to identify and reduces the bill every month afterwards, with no change of supplier.
You cannot switch away from plant running at 3am
Half-hourly data shows the overnight floor on almost every site we read. No tariff fixes it. Turning it off does.
You cannot switch away from an invoice nobody checked
A rate billed that was never agreed is not a procurement problem. It is a refund, and it is already owed to you.
- Wholesale energyChanges if you switch supplier
- Network charges, Policy levies, Taxes, Supplier costsNone of these change if you switch supplier
A single bar representing a business electricity bill, divided into wholesale energy, network charges, policy levies, taxes and supplier costs. Wholesale energy is visibly not the largest part. Wholesale energy changes if you switch supplier. None of the other four, network charges, policy levies, taxes and supplier costs, change if you switch supplier, so most of a business electricity bill is made up of charges a switch does not touch.
Only the first band changes when you switch supplier. The rest is set by regulation and by how you use power.
Twelve months of recorded monthly peak demand in kVA, plotted beneath a flat line marking agreed capacity. Recorded demand never approaches the agreed figure, and the shaded gap between the two is headroom that is reserved but never drawn. Agreed capacity is billed daily on that reserved headroom regardless of what the site actually draws.
The orange is capacity reserved and never drawn. It is billed every day at the same rate as capacity you use.
We run the market properly when it is time to renew. We just do not pretend that is the whole job.
Every Omnium client has access to Insights. Where a reading is estimated rather than actual, the platform says so, and a gap in the data is shown as a gap and not as a zero.
Energy management, monitoring, procurement, reduction, compliance and water services. In every area we build a dated, checkable record before we make a recommendation, then hand you the file.
Energy management
Strategy, contracts and day to day account handling in one place.
One account, one written recordEnergy monitoring
Half-hourly and AMR data read against how each site is actually run.
Read from the meter, not the bill totalEnergy procurement
Electricity, gas and water tenders, with every offer logged and dated.
Tender record, not a phone quoteEnergy reduction
Waste identified from recorded data, then options costed in writing.
Costed before it reaches youEnergy compliance
ESOS, SECR, TM44 and heat networks, held to a dated calendar.
Law separated from proposalWater services
Water and waste water charges checked, tendered and corrected.
Meters, charges and recovery
The method does not change by sector, but the load shape does. Hotels, offices, retail, leisure, care, education and industrial sites are each set out separately. All sectors. Service FAQs
£206,000
a year saved on procurement
20 hotels, single managed group
Client value summary, Michels and TaylorEV-01
£161,000
a year saved on gas, about £483,000 across a three-year term
Nursing homes and affordable housing, Birmingham
Client value summary, BCOPEV-02
Group rates
10 per cent
lower than the previous brokered prices
More than 800 charge point sites, UK wide
Client value summary, RoamEV-03
Brands we work across
Checkable with the issuing body
What we will not do
We will not tell you a supplier has fixed network charges unless we hold their written confirmation for that product.
We will not describe a supply as renewable without a named backing mechanism in writing.
We will not present a cost rise as a saving.
We will not state a government proposal as though it were law.
We will not recommend a project that our own figures do not support.
On every energy contract we place we are paid either by a margin on the final unit rate, or by a fixed management fee invoiced directly. Whichever applies is agreed in writing before the contract is signed. We hold a Level 1 Letter of Authority only, so you sign every contract yourself.
Get in touch
The quickest way to get started is to send us the latest full invoice for each meter and sign a Letter of Authority. We will complete a full review, feed back our findings and the available options, and you can decide from there whether to appoint us. Our fee for the initial review and health check is set out in writing and agreed before anything starts.
Most of what we find costs nothing to act on. Where spend is needed, we say so in writing and you decide what proceeds.
hello@askomnium.co.uk01202 985126
For smaller premises or a household supply, either quick quote route will price it online: SME quick quoteDomestic quote
Commission on the energy contracts we place, shown on the rate, line by line. It is not a separate invoice and it is not hidden in the standing charge. You see it before you sign.
Nothing. We look at your invoices and contract position and tell you what we find. The efficiency reviews that follow are quoted in writing before we start.
A document authorising us to speak to suppliers on your behalf. We hold Level 1 only, which lets us gather your data and approach the market. It does not let us sign anything. You sign every contract yourself.
The supply continues on out of contract rates. Those are significantly higher than a contracted price and they are variable, tracking the short term market rather than a rate you agreed. They apply from the day the contract ended.
Regulated network charges and several policy levies reset annually on 1 April. From April 2026 the transmission residual rose by a volume-weighted average of 64 per cent, with individual capacity bands ranging from 28 to 116 per cent. These are set through regulation, not by your supplier.
Yes. Sometimes the answer is to do nothing, and we would rather say so than sell you something.