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. First we understand the estate, then we manage the priorities, and finally we assess longer-term opportunities using your own invoices, contracts and meter data.
Stage 01 of 03
Mapping
We start by building a clear picture of each site. We review its meters, contracts, invoices, equipment and operating hours, then compare them with actual energy use. This establishes the starting point and highlights waste, errors and missing information.
What we examine and do
- Review each site's meters, equipment and operating hours
- Compare meter data with invoices and contract terms
- Check twelve months of bills and supporting paperwork
- Identify out-of-hours use, ageing equipment and unused meters
What you receive
A clear baseline for the estate, showing what is working, what needs attention and what information is still missing.
How the baseline is builtOur toolkit
A supplier switch only changes the rate. These three reviews check what you are billed for, what capacity you reserve and what your buildings run when nobody is there. Select a review to see the example document.
Review 01 of 03
Bill validation
Every line read against the signed contract and the arithmetic checked, so a rate nobody agreed does not get paid twice.
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.
The initial review costs nothing. Our fee for each of the reviews above 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.
Published result
£206,000
a year saved on procurement
Source and scope
20 hotels, single managed group
Client value summary, Michels and Taylor · EV-01
Brands we work across
Checkable with the issuing body
Errors rarely announce themselves
Energy problems often appear as a slightly larger number each month, on an invoice nobody has time to question. Select an issue to see what it means and where we look.
What this means
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.
Where we start
Your existing invoices, contracts and meter data provide the starting point for the initial review.
Every one of these is findable from paperwork you already hold. That is where we start, and the initial review costs nothing.
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 some of what you pay cannot be switched away from at any price.
Cost area 01
Regulated network charges
TNUoS, DUoS and the levies reset every April and every supplier passes them through. Changing supplier does not change them. Your capacity, your peak demand and when you draw power do.
- 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.
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. Select an area to see the problem it addresses and what you receive.
One account, clearly documented
Energy management
We manage the estate in one place, including consumption, contracts and reporting. Each action is dated, so you can see what happened and when.
The problem
Energy handled in parts across several people and inboxes, with nobody holding the whole picture for the estate.
What you receive
A written management plan per estate, stating what happens, when it happens and who holds it.
Service detailsThe 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
What we will not do
Our commitment
We will not tell you a supplier has fixed network charges unless we hold their written confirmation for that product.
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. The initial review and health check cost nothing. Where a further efficiency review is needed, it is quoted in writing and agreed before it 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.
Step 01
You send the basics
The latest full invoice for each meter and a signed Letter of Authority. That is usually enough for us to complete the initial review and feed back our findings.
Book a free energy reviewSend an enquiry
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.