If you can shape your energy use you can reduce your energy bills

You may be aware that, between the hours of 4pm and 7pm, energy is more expensive. (That’s when families come home and fire up every appliance in the house, including the oven.) However, for most business customers, energy doesn’t cost more at these peak times.

Generally, your energy company gives you a blended rate – averaging the expensive energy across your tariff. But what if you could manage your business, so you minimised energy use in winter at tea-time?

You could benefit from all the other cheaper ‘time-of-day’ rates. That’s the simple idea behind Power Hours – the ‘time of day’ tariff from British Gas.