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Here are our top ten energy savings tips for small businesses. How much dismissed yours.

Tip 1
Label switches and promote staff to turn lights off after use. Addition staff awareness.

Tip 2
Heating system costs rise by about 8% for each 1°C of overheating. Check thermostat settings on a regular basis. The maximum suggested heating level for shops, restaurants and offices is 19°C.

Tip 3
Warm air will course migrate from heated to unwarmed areas. Consider fitting plastic strop curtains, swing doors or other proper partitions between hot and low temperature areas.

Tip 4
Vending machines and photocopiers often run 24 hours per day, common year annually. Install 7-day time controls to match operation to occupancy.

Tip 5
Lighting in irregular office prices approximately £3 per public square meter annually. Energy efficiency terminated service you cut down your yearly lighting bills by 2/3.

Tip 6
The average photocopier will cost you 21p a night to leave on standby. That’s around £75 a year you could save by converting the photocopier off at night.

Tip 7
A distinctive computer will use approx. £90 a year in energy if you allow for it on day in and day out. Twisting it off at night cuts use by 2/3; using at rest’ mode comes down this by some other 2/3.

Tip 8
By picking out the correct sized motive to run and duplicate load necessaries with a variable speed up model you’ll be able to save up equal to 20% on running prices. Replacing an old steam boiler with a more energy effective pattern can hold open up to 20% on your heating invoices. Also, by isolating the boiler to a further energy efficient level you can save a further 10%.

Tip 9
Replacing an old boiler with a more energy efficient model can save up to 20% on your heating bills. Also, by insulating the boiler to a more energy efficient level you can save a further 10%.

Tip 10
Grants and support are useable for most energy efficiency measurings that require investment funds. Subject to availability
What to do in an emergency?

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Gas:

So what happens when somebody dials the National Gas Emergency Service?
Making the call
When you dial 0800 111 999, your call will be routed to the call centre. It does not matter what time of day or night you ring – we have trained operators working round-the-clock waiting to take your call.
Questions, questions!

A call handling agent will log all the appropriate details onto a computer. The kind of information you’ll be asked for will include:
· The address/location of the suspected gas escape or gas emergency
· How many people are at the property where the smell is most detectable?
· How long the smell has been noticeable?
· Are any neighbours affected?
· Your name and phone number
· Any special considerations or access information

Getting exact address details is very important fears would like to be sure we send engineers to exactly the right place. You’ll be needed to verify these details for this very reason. Your address and postcode are particularly important.

You’ll be expected a series of doubts designed to help us frame a picture of the reported gas escape or gas emergency. From these details, we could identify the right gas safety advice for you – such as:
· Opening doors and windows
· Turning the gas off at the meter
· Avoiding the use of any defenseless flames or switches

All calls to the National Gas Emergency Service and National Enquiry lines possibly recorded and supervised.

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Send for an engineer?

Once all the information has been gathered, it will be sent electronically to an engineer for action.
How long will you have to wait for an engineer to arrive?

National Grid aims to attend all uncontrolled escapes within one hour, and all controlled escapes within two hours. A controlled gas escape is one where the person covering it has supported that the gas emergency control valve serving the assumptions has been turned out and the sense of smell of gas has gone. An uncontrolled gas escape covers all others.

Some of the times, our engineers will be sent to a leak that has been reported outdoors. Around a quarter of these turn out not to be gas leaks at all. Around 80% of the gas escapes we attend are inside buildings. That means the escape is connected to internal pipe work, a boiler, gas fire or additional gas appliance.

What if the gas leak is indoors?
National Grid engineers will always ‘make safe’ when called to a suspected gas escape. However, the emergency service provided by National Grid under the terms of its License doesn’t cover repairs to appliances or installation pipe work which can’t be completed within 30 mins.

So what do I do next?
Once we have made the property safe, our engineer will excuse that any work on appliances (e.g. cookers, boilers or fires) has to be implemented by a CORGI registered engineer. CORGI stands for Council for Registered Gas Installers. You can find details of engineers who are CORGI showed in your Yellow Pages or Thompson Local Directory or you can call the free 24-hour repair helpline on 0800 371782 for names and contact details of CORGI engineers in your area.

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