The best way of tackling a new ethical energy initiative is to speak to your supplier and find a renewable source, and then begin the ongoing process of making improvements in your business to conserve energy where possible.
The Regent Hotel in Cambridge is a family-run business. We caught up with its current hotelier to find out how it manages its energy contracts.
When it comes to signing a new utilities contract, there are many red flags that a business should be on the lookout for. Here, we outline a few.
When looking for a provider, whether it’s for gas, electricity or broadband, it’s natural to want a utilities bargain. Here, we examine the different ways you get the best services for the cheapest possible price.
When it comes to travelling through space, beloved fictional characters always seem to do a minor scene where they catch some z’s in a sleeping pod. Of course, a spacecraft isn’t the only place you’ll find such pods, with Google citing it as a key driver of productivity in the workplace. That’s why we took a look at Podtime.
While the likes of Starbucks want consumers to guzzle coffee down like there’s no tomorrow, cleantech enterprise bio-bean is more interested in the leftover grounds that go untouched. The growing firm is working with caffeine merchants, such as coffee shops and factories, to reform the waste into reusable energy.
The next step in our new country export series takes us to Chile, where Mauricio Munguia, director of the Latin America desk at Santander UK, explains why a positive attitude towards international trade and free trade agreements with a wide range of countries makes the nation a good bet.
Removing artificial price barriers from electricity markets, bringing transparency and connecting customers with the cheapest available energy, Everline Future 50 2016 business Tempus Energy envisages a world where low-carbon electricity generates money at least expense to customers and the environment.
Open Utility, co-founded by James Johnston, Alice Tyler and Andy Kilner, is marrying big data technology with Britain’s growing community renewables movement to change the way we buy and sell energy. It’s a worthy part of our 2016 Everline Future 50 class.
By Jan Cavelle
While overall GDP figures expanded for 11 quarters in a row, the speed of the British manufacturing recovery has slowed and companies are more gloomy about competing in the eurozone.
