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Nationwide Energy Consultants has been a key figure in the utility industry for almost 20 years, making us one of the first companies to set up within the market. We have the expertise and knowledge necessary to find the best deal for our client’s individual circumstances through our successful working relationships with utility suppliers nationally. As part of our service, we offer all potential

clients a comprehensive analysis of their current gas, electricity, water expenditure and energy surveys to reduce consumption. As a family-owned and run company, Nationwide Energy Consultants understand and empathise with the needs of business owners – that’s why we always aim to provide each of our customers with a service that meets their requirements and goes beyond a standard package.

The energy price cap was in the news last week, up 4% from 1 October. Before you read any of it, one thing: the cap does...
01/09/2026

The energy price cap was in the news last week, up 4% from 1 October. Before you read any of it, one thing: the cap does not apply to your pub.

The price cap protects households on default tariffs. Business energy has no cap. Your protection is the contract you signed: the rate, the end date, and the notice period on it.

Which means the headline number, up or down, tells you almost nothing about your own bill. The questions that do: when does my contract end, what am I paying now, and what would I be offered today?

If you can find a recent bill, you can answer all three. Send us a photo of it and we will do the reading. No forms, no obligation. 02476 328995.

We have put a new guide on the site, and there is a deadline attached to this one.From 1 October, VAT on electricity dro...
31/08/2026

We have put a new guide on the site, and there is a deadline attached to this one.

From 1 October, VAT on electricity drops from 5% to zero until the end of March, for supplies that count as domestic. Gas stays at 5%.

Your main pub meter almost certainly will not qualify, and the guide says so straight away rather than promising you a saving that never turns up. Where it does matter is the meters you never look at: an outbuilding, a cellar block on its own supply, the flat, a site shut for the winter. Those should already be on the lower rate with no Climate Change Levy, and plenty of them are quietly being charged the full whack instead.

And if you live above the pub but have never sent your supplier a qualifying-use certificate, they are within their rights to charge you 20% on the lot. That is the one to sort before October.

Read it here: https://nationwide-energy.co.uk/blogs/zero-vat-electricity-which-pub-supplies-qualify

Or send us a recent bill and we will check every meter you have. 02476 328995.

There are two taxes on your energy bill. VAT, which you know about, and the Climate Change Levy, which almost nobody rea...
29/08/2026

There are two taxes on your energy bill. VAT, which you know about, and the Climate Change Levy, which almost nobody reads.

Since April the levy has been 0.801p for every kWh you use, the same on electricity and on gas. If you are VAT registered you can claim your VAT back. You cannot claim the levy back at all, and you pay VAT on top of it.

Both drop if HMRC counts your supply as domestic. Two ways that happens.

The first is automatic and needs no form. An electricity supply of 1,000 kWh a month or less, or gas of 4,397 kWh a month or less, counts as domestic no matter what it powers. That is 33 kWh of electricity a day. Your main pub meter will be well over it. A second meter might not be, and pubs often have one: an outbuilding, a cellar block, a site closed for the winter. Those quietly get charged the full rate. One catch worth knowing is that if a site has several meters, they get added together for this test.

The second needs a form. If you live above the pub, the share of the energy running your home should be at the reduced rate with no levy on it. Be realistic about the size of that share, because the flat is rarely more than half of what a trading pub uses. Whatever the split, the supplier has to have a qualifying-use certificate on file. No certificate, no reduced rate, and most pubs have never sent one.

Worth knowing before winter: from 1 October to 31 March, VAT on qualifying electricity in England, Scotland and Wales is 0% instead of 5%. Gas stays at 5%.

Dig out a recent bill and look at two things: the VAT percentage, and whether there is a levy line. Or send it to us and we will check every meter you have. 02476 328995.

Taking on a pub, and the energy supplier keeps asking for one more document?Sometimes that is a supplier being careful. ...
27/08/2026

Taking on a pub, and the energy supplier keeps asking for one more document?

Sometimes that is a supplier being careful. Sometimes it is not. In December 2024 the regulator, Ofgem, made one business energy supplier pay £1.65m after an investigation that found — among other failures — excessive paperwork demands on new tenants, which risked trapping them on expensive deemed rates while the account sat unresolved.

The paperwork for a pub handover has a defined shape: the signed change of tenancy form, your contract, meter photos with the readings visible, and the lease or completion statement. Ofgem expects suppliers to review a complete pack within ten working days.

If the requests keep moving after that, stop sending documents and get help chasing the account instead.

Free guides on what to have ready before a handover: https://nationwide-energy.co.uk/free-guides-to-help-your-business/

Quiet Monday? Your kitchen didn't get the memo.Researchers metered fourteen pub kitchens and found the kitchen takes abo...
25/08/2026

Quiet Monday? Your kitchen didn't get the memo.

Researchers metered fourteen pub kitchens and found the kitchen takes about 63% of a pub's electricity. Here is the strange part: a Sunday serving three times the meals of a Monday only used about 20% more energy. The fryers, the grill and the fridges cost nearly the same whether the room is full or empty.

So the money is in matching the kit to the day. In the same study, a grill switched off between services used 71% less than one left on all day. And half the fridges and freezers had a fault, usually a sensor showing the wrong temperature — one repaired walk-in freezer cut its energy use by 45%.

Walk the kitchen on your next quiet shift. What is switched on that nobody is using?

Free guides on cutting energy use: https://nationwide-energy.co.uk/free-guides-to-help-your-business/

Quick check for the week: does your pub actually have an energy contract in place — or are you on deemed rates?You proba...
23/08/2026

Quick check for the week: does your pub actually have an energy contract in place — or are you on deemed rates?

You probably have it sorted. But deemed rates catch people out precisely because nobody signs up to them. A renewal that quietly lapsed. A takeover where the new contract never got finished. A second supply everyone forgot about. The supplier will not ring to warn you — the rates just apply, and Ofgem says they average 80% more than a negotiated deal.

How to check, in thirty seconds. Get a recent bill and find the contract line. If it says deemed or out-of-contract, or there is no end date anywhere, that is your answer. A unit rate that jumped without you agreeing anything new is the other tell.

If you are on deemed rates, here is the good bit: there is no notice period and no exit fee. You are not locked in, whatever anyone tells you. It can be fixed the same day you spot it.

Not sure what your bill is telling you? Send it over and we will read it for you. 02476 328995.

Our latest Energy Update is live — the fortnightly plain-English read on what energy markets are doing and what it means...
21/08/2026

Our latest Energy Update is live — the fortnightly plain-English read on what energy markets are doing and what it means for your pub.

This time: wholesale prices have turned back up, with next winter's gas and power hitting new highs this week. The update covers what to do if your renewal lands this autumn, the latest price table, and the checks that stop a bad first bill when a pub changes hands.

Read it at nationwide-energy.co.uk/energy-updates/2026-08-21 — link in bio.

Renewal or takeover coming up? Call us on 02476 328995 and we will price it properly.

Taking on a pub? Somebody will ask you to sign a Letter of Authority — an LOA.An LOA lets your energy broker talk to the...
21/08/2026

Taking on a pub? Somebody will ask you to sign a Letter of Authority — an LOA.

An LOA lets your energy broker talk to the supplier for you: get your meter details, chase the account, see the real rates. It does not switch your supplier and it does not tie you to a contract. Those are separate signatures.

Before you sign, check three things. Your business name is written exactly as it is registered, because a sole trader and a limited company are two different customers to a supplier. The MPAN is copied correctly: it sits in a box on your electricity bill, and the bit that matters is the 13 digits along the bottom row. And the date on it is current.

The Change of Tenancy is the other job, with its own paperwork: the lease or completion, meter photos with readings, and a signed form.

When you first signed an LOA, what were you told it was?

Nobody should be telling you that you have to sign your energy contract today.You can usually agree a renewal up to twel...
19/08/2026

Nobody should be telling you that you have to sign your energy contract today.

You can usually agree a renewal up to twelve months before your current one ends. So for most of that year there is no deadline to beat. You are just picking your moment.

That is what we do for the pubs we look after. We keep an eye on prices across the year and we tell you honestly which it is: a good time to fix, or a bit high at the moment, leave it, you have time. Ofgem tells businesses the same thing, that when offers are high it can be better to wait.

Where it does get expensive is the last fortnight. Two weeks out you take whatever is on the table. And if a contract runs out with nothing arranged, the supplier puts you on what it calls a deemed contract. Ofgem reckons those cost small businesses about 80% more than a contract you actually negotiated.

If you are already on one, you are not stuck. There is no notice period and no exit fee on a deemed contract, whatever anyone tells you.

One job this week: find the date your contract ends and write it down. Send us the date and we will watch the year for you. 02476 328995.

It is hot, and your cellar is carrying it. In a typical pub, cellar cooling is 10-20% of the whole energy bill — the Car...
18/08/2026

It is hot, and your cellar is carrying it. In a typical pub, cellar cooling is 10-20% of the whole energy bill — the Carbon Trust's figure, not ours.

Three checks this week, none of which cost anything.

Put a separate thermometer in the cellar and compare it against what the control says. Overcooling by one degree can add up to 10% to your cellar's energy cost, and a sensor that has drifted looks fine on the dial. The usual range is 11-13°C.

Look at where the condenser sits. A closed-in corner, or grills thick with dust, means it is working harder than it needs to — blocked grills can add as much as 40% to running costs.

Then watch the hatch after the next delivery. Propped open for an hour undoes the rest of it.

Want someone to walk the cellar with you? Call 02476 328995.

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