Manufacturing and industrial
Helping energy-intensive businesses save money and reduce emissions.
Making sense of energy for manufacturers
Utility costs are a hurdle for manufacturers and industrial companies operating in globally competitive marketplaces. Businesses in these sectors also face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and adhere to burdensome compliance standards.
We offer agile procurement solutions, levy relief support and energy reduction programmes to support energy-intensive operations, helping your organisation reduce costs and build sustainability into your operations.
Mitigating unprecedented energy costs
Energy is one of the highest overheads for manufacturing and industrial businesses. Volatility in the price of electricity, natural gas and other fuels can have a huge impact on the profitability and success of your business.
Finding ways to mitigate unprecedented energy costs has never been more important for manufacturers. In the last three decades, the sector has led the drive towards sustainability. For these organisations, cutting carbon emissions isn’t just about protecting the environment.
Manufacturing and sustainability
Sustainable manufacturing can help unlock competitive advantages like reduced costs, more efficient processes and reputational benefits.
The rise of Environmental, Social and Governance matters (ESG) in manufacturing means companies are examining their overarching impact across their value chain. As the sector often relies on energy-intensive processes for daily operations, impactful energy management is a cornerstone of sustainability.
Our industry experience
We specialise in supporting manufacturing and industrial businesses across:
Get your personalised energy and carbon health check report
We can provide you with a free health check analysis of your current processes and practices to help you gain the insight needed to reduce your energy costs, consumption and carbon emissions.
Details of what the energy and carbon health check will include can be found below.
An overview of your current procurement strategy to determine if you are overpaying in your current contract and whether all the fees are correct and transparent.
A comparison with our alternative procurement options to check if you could save on costs.
A review of your levy exemptions to see if you are missing out on any relief and an insight into your usage patterns to spot any overconsumption anomalies.
A compliance check to ensure you are accurately reporting on your carbon savings and complying with any applicable energy legislation or disclosure requirements.
Book your energy health check now
Energy Procurement: The Cost of Complacency
Our latest report, in partnership with Make UK, outlines the benefits of, and the steps firms can take, towards establishing an energy procurement strategy to help them weather future volatility in the UK energy market.
Latest research reveals 1 in 5 manufacturers don’t have a strategy in place, and 1 in 3 haven’t updated their existing one since prices last peaked in 2022.
Don’t leave yourself vulnerable to future crises- download your free copy today.
Manufacturing Net-Zero Roadmap
We have worked closely with Make UK to create a manufacturing-specific Net-zero Roadmap, designed to guide businesses through their complex decarbonisation journey.
The roadmap has been developed in consultation with some of the major manufacturing sub-sectors and offers clear direction and highlights the major milestones required to reach the UK’s 2050 net-zero goal.
It aims to encourage manufacturing businesses to take the first successful steps towards reducing their carbon footprint.
Find out more
Learn how Inspired helped Atec on their journey towards a net-zero future.
Case studies
From perfecting procurement strategies to implementing net-zero action plans, here’s how we support the manufacturing sector in practice.
A tailored end-to-end service
We work with over 500 manufacturers to help purchase their energy, check their bills for any errors and to improve efficiency across sites, implementing low-carbon alternatives and on-site generation. We support manufacturers’ goals of reducing carbon emissions and energy costs, whilst remaining profitable as they transition to a net-zero future.
Dan Hulme
Head of Sales
“During the peak of the energy market crisis, manufacturers were looking to understand how to reduce their energy costs and many turned to efficiency measures to allow this. We can support the sector across all their energy and sustainability challenges.”
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