In the latest in our series of questions to the boss, we focus on the issue of smart meters. Question: Why do you need to credit check my business? Business Juice: Most business energy suppliers require a credit check to be undertaken in order to understand whether they wish to supply a business, and what […]
Business Rates, the Unnecessary Evil
It’s often the case that a business will find the perfect location for their expansion, strike an attractive rental deal and then be hit by an extortionate business rate bill. Yet the one bright spot in this common business gripe was the powers enshrined upon local councils by the Coalition government to enable them to […]
British Gas Business Hits the Headlines
In the news for all the wrong reasons… More energy supply company controversy hit the headlines over the Easter weekend, this time however the focus was on a different sort of ‘victim’. Small businesses and charities were the ones to allegedly suffer at the underhand tactics of a household name energy supplier. The Daily Mail broke the […]
Renewing the Debate on Renewables
The snazzily titled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, a group of 200 of the world’s leading climate change scientists last week published a new report titled ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’. As a headline it called for a three to four-fold increase in the spread of renewable plant worldwide as the most ‘realistic’ route […]
Smaller Energy Suppliers are Increasingly Influential
In good news for choice in the energy market and signposting an alternative to the much maligned Big 6 energy suppliers, Energy UK, the energy supplier trade body reports that the rate of customers switching electricity to smaller suppliers is at an all-time high. Electralink, the organisation that runs the data network that underpins the […]
SMilE – things are looking up for UK SMEs
In welcome news for UK business, the Office for National Statistics has reported industrial output growth significantly higher than expectations. In the latest 2014 figures, industrial production rose 0.9% whilst manufacturing grew 1% registering a year on year increase of 3.8%. George Buckley, UK economist at Deutsche Bank, held a very punchy view of the […]
Business energy for start-ups
6 tips to save money and cut stress If you’re running a start-up, or thinking of starting your own business, there’s no doubt that you have a lot on your mind: business plans, accounts, sales figures, marketing, tax, employees… We don’t want to needlessly add to that list, but we are going to suggest that […]
Labour’s Energy Price Freeze Proposals
The expected unexpected impact According to friends of Business Juice, Cornwall Energy, Ed Miliband’s ‘off the wall’ and ill thought through commitment to freeze energy prices after the next election has resulted in the fully expected unintended consequences of market meddling. The independent energy consultancy, has written to Caroline Flint, the Shadow Secretary of State […]
The End of Russia’s Influence on European Energy?
In early March we wrote an article on the Ukraine crisis where we compared the current energy standoff to similar Russo-Ukranian conflicts in 2005 and 2009. We spoke of a renewed sense of optimism amongst central European nations that the impact would be mitigated as the energy markets had moved on in a short few […]
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