Bills paid unchecked
Suppliers make mistakes, and the mistakes tend to go one way. Without line-by-line validation against contract and meter data, overcharges simply become cost.
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Independent Energy Consultancy · UK Wide
Energy management consultancy for UK industry. Measurable results.
We help manufacturers and multi-site organisations cut energy cost, meet ESOS, ISO 50001 and SECR obligations and manage carbon, led by a Chartered Energy Manager with 20 years running energy inside FTSE 250 manufacturing.
AccreditationChartered Energy Manager
ESOSLead Assessor, EMA registered
AccreditationLead ISO 50001 Auditor
Experience20 years in FTSE 250 manufacturing
How we think
Energy, cost and carbon move together.
Every organisation sits inside the same triangle. Use less energy and your costs fall with your emissions. Ignore it, and rising prices and compliance risk arrive together. We manage all three points as one job, starting from the one your board actually watches: cost.
- ENERGYMetered, monitored and managed. You cannot reduce what you do not measure.
- COSTEvery recommendation we make carries a payback figure, not a promise.
- CARBONFalls out of the first two, and compliance reporting becomes a by-product, not a project.
The reality
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Most industrial sites leak energy spend quietly.
Energy spend rarely fails loudly. It leaks. A mis-billed charge here, a meter nobody reads there, a compliance deadline left to the final quarter. This is where we start.
Consumption nobody measures
Sites without metering, monitoring and targeting carry waste as baseline load, year after year, because nobody is looking at the number.
Energy Management →Compliance left late
As at 2026, the Environment Agency has fined more than 160 organisations for missing ESOS Phase 3, at an average of around £24,000 each. Phase 4 is already running.
ESOS Phase 4 →
What we do
Four services. One aim: energy you can account for.
Every service below is delivered directly by us, end to end. No sales team, no subcontracting, no markup on someone else’s work.
Compliance: ESOS, ISO 50001 & SECR
Meet every obligation, without the last-minute panic.
- ESOS Assessments & Audits
- ISO 50001 Systems & Auditing
- SECR & Annual Carbon Reporting
- Annual Energy Auditing
Energy Management
Hands-on management, not a report that gathers dust.
- Dedicated Energy Management
- Metering, Monitoring & Targeting
- Training, Education & Awareness
Bureau: Energy Bill Validation
Every energy bill checked before it is paid.
- Energy Bill Validation
- MOP & MAM Metering Contracts
Billing errors are common, and rarely in your favour. We validate every invoice against contract and meter data, challenge what is wrong and recover what you are owed. We also manage your MOP and MAM metering contracts so the data behind every bill is right.
Bill validation services →Decarbonisation & Net Zero
Reduce energy. Reduce carbon. Reduce cost.
- Carbon Baseline & Assessment
- Decarbonisation Strategy & Roadmaps
- Renewable Energy Integration
- Electrification & Fuel Switching
- Carbon Reduction Project Appraisal
Practical, cost-effective decarbonisation strategies that cut emissions while improving energy efficiency and controlling operating costs. Actionable projects and measurable savings, not a strategy that sits on a shelf.
Decarbonisation services →
Compliance deadline
ESOS Phase 4 reporting is due by 5 December 2027.
If you employ 250 or more people, or turn over more than £44m with a balance sheet above £38m, you are in scope. Two routes qualify, an ESOS energy audit or ISO 50001 certification, and we deliver both as a registered ESOS Lead Assessor. Phase 3 enforcement has already passed £3.9 million in fines on Environment Agency figures.
250+ employees
£44m turnover
£38m balance sheet
Check your position
05.12.2027
Phase 4 compliance deadline
Qualification date · 31.12.2026
Qualification date · 31.12.2026
Who we work with
Built for UK manufacturers and multi-site organisations where energy is a material cost.
ManufacturingEnergy-intensive processes, ESOS obligations, large sites
Industrial & processingMulti-meter estates, monitoring and targeting, waste hunting
Commercial & officesMulti-site portfolios, SECR reporting, billing control
Multi-site organisationsFirst-time compliance, metering strategy, energy policy
About us
Run by an energy manager, not a salesman.
Ensure Energy Consultancy was founded by Richard Capper, a Chartered Energy Manager who has spent 20 years running energy inside FTSE 250 manufacturing businesses. We have held the budgets, owned the meters and answered to the board, so our advice is built to survive contact with a factory floor, not just look good in a slide deck.
We work nationally, we are fully independent, and we do not sell energy, we manage it.
More about us →Credentials on the record
- Chartered Energy Manager✓
- ESOS Lead Assessor · EMA registered✓
- Lead ISO 50001 Auditor✓
- FTSE 250 manufacturing20 yrs
- CoverageUK wide
How an engagement works
Three steps, no pressure.
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A call
Twenty minutes on the phone to understand your sites, your contracts and where you stand on compliance.
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A look at your data or site
Bills, half-hourly data and a walk round if it helps. Enough to see where the money is going.
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A proposal with costs and paybacks
What we recommend, what it costs and what it returns. If a service will not pay for itself, we will say so.
Find out where you actually stand.
Tell us what your sites do and what you spend. We will tell you what is in scope, what is leaking and what it costs to fix.