BESA’s comments are in light of new data from the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) which found that UK businesses and homeowners were missing out on over £3 billion worth of savings every year due to a lack of energy efficiency awareness and financial incentives.
Turning down thermostats and heating flow temperatures, having boilers and other plant serviced, improving insulation, and replacing inefficient lightbulbs with LEDs are all quick and easy measures that are not being widely adopted.
The “Powering Energy Efficiency” report published in collaboration with the pump manufacturer Grundfos found that 14 per cent of businesses have either never had a boiler service or have not had one in the last five years, despite three-quarters of business owners saying they wanted to make their heating system energy efficient.
20 per cent of business owners admitted they had not had an energy efficiency audit for more than five years, and some had never had one.