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- Four steps to better energy budget management
- Your top questions on energy procurement answered
- DCP 161: Upcoming changes to excess capacity charges
- Non-energy costs: why third-party charges are pushing up energy bills
- How better employee engagement can save your business on energy costs
- Why confidence in energy efficiency investment keeps on rising
- Water Deregulation
- ISO 14001:2015 - Free Gap Analysis offer from SMS Plc
- Building our Industrial Strategy
- Energy Audits - Why?
- Autumn Statement 2016
- UK: £1.7 billion economic boost thanks to energy efficiency savings
- Display Energy Certificates - A missed opportunity?
- 3 Reasons Why You Really Should Have An Environmental Management System
- Join SMS Plc at the ESTA Energy Efficiency Summit
- Opening of the water market in England
- Tackling the Building Energy Performance Gap
- Join SMS at The Energy Event 2016
- Monitoring & Targeting – Establish Potential Savings Without Leaving Your Desk
- Department of Energy and Climate Change abolished
- CRC Compliance – an irritation too far? Perhaps not.
- OFGEM announces review of regional electricity distribution connection costs
- EU Referendum and the Energy Industry
- Understanding your utility invoices and the charges
- How much did it save? – Why good M&V accelerates energy efficiency
- Join SMS Plc at ESTA’s Regional Events
- Wales leads the way for sustainability
- Understanding the Heat Metering & Billing Requirements of the Heat Networks Regulations
- ESOS: Thousands of businesses face enforcement action as final deadline passes
- SMS CEO Alan Foy wins IoD Scotland Director of the Year award
- George Osbourne's Budget Announcement 2016
- Competition in Connections Update
- SMS secures metering and data contract with Network Rail
- Join SMS Plc at ESTA aM&T Conference & Exhibition
- ESOS 40% of businesses non-compliant by deadline day
- Record-breaking 2015 for UK wind energy
- New ISO 14001 environmental management standard
- Employee engagement - a key (but often forgotten) ingredient in sustainability strategies
- Validating ESOS Opportunities Next Steps to Deliver Energy Savings as ESOS Phase 1 Closes
- SMS nominated for UK energy reduction and efficiency award
- Environment Agency ESOS Update
- Environment Agency warns UK firms risk missing out on £250m in energy savings
- SMS Achieves ‘Green Business of the Year’ Award
- ISO 14001 changes published next week
- Watchdog reveals just 120 businesses are ESOS compliant
- Join SMS Plc at The Energy Event 2015
- SMS Plc shortlisted as finalist for the Green Business Award
- UK doubles large-scale solar capacity with world set for new installation record
- A Growing Business
- Blog: SMS Energy Desk - Raising the Alarm
- Understanding your business energy bill – what you should know
- Positive perception of smart meters on upsurge, major study finds
- DUoS charges – how will DCP 228 legislation impact on businesses?
- Businesses not yet tapping benefits of open water market
- Why industry engagement is the key to better building performance
- Meeting MEES: Are SBEMs a quick EPC fix, or energy efficiency obstacle?
- DNOs face Ofgem fine for poor customer service
- How to avoid being overcharged on business energy bills
- Join SMS Plc at the RWM Exhibition 2017!
- New guide aims to increase workplace energy efficiency engagement
- Smart charging: the EV solution for a smarter grid?
- Smart meter roll out ramps up, latest figures show
- Join SMS Plc at UK Construction Week’s Energy 2017!
- Two million reasons to switch your water supplier
- Consultation on non-domestic smart metering policy – how to participate
- Non-energy costs: how to prepare for 2018’s price rises
- Will offshore wind’s big wins be a turning point for our energy system?
- How will the new Clean Growth Strategy impact businesses?
- Can supply of EV charging infrastructure catch up with rocketing EV demand?
- Smart meters inspire 86% of people to take energy-saving actions
- Energy efficiency: a persevering trend or prevented by poor policy?
- Smart meters: paving the way for our future energy system
- Budget 2017: what we learned from a smart energy perspective
- Digital technologies set to “transform” energy sector – report
- Job opportunities in energy management as demand for services surges
- Smart energy systems central to UK's new Industrial Strategy
- Smart meter roll-out gathers pace with 15 percent quarterly rise
- EU Emissions Trading Scheme compliance: Brexit policy update
- Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme: ESOS Phase 2 compliance – Act now!
- Not just red tape: environmental regulation proven to support business growth
- The year in review: Our Top 5 Blogs of 2017
- UK Government extends Advanced Meter Exception (AME) end date
- Three major energy trends to watch out for in 2018
- Heat Network Regulations update: BEIS consultation and legislation changes
- SMETS1 and AME end-dates moved back to facilitate smooth transition to SMETS2 system
- Streamlined energy and carbon reporting – policy changes update
- Competition launched to develop energy management tools from smart meter data
- Price Risk: How to counter rising energy costs?
- 200,000 planned new homes heighten demand for utility infrastructure services
- Brexit: what does it mean for UK energy security?
- Energy costs: why flowers won’t be the only thing to rise this spring
- Water market update: 100,000 supply point switched in first 10 months
- Your commercial property could be at risk from Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards – even if compliant!
- Sustainability professionals boast better pay and higher job satisfaction than UK average
- Billing Risk: Are you being overcharged?
- 75% of UK businesses enjoy commercial benefits after investing in green technology
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 26 March 2018
- Non-domestic energy customers allowed choice between advanced meters and smart meters
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 2 April 2018
- Smart meter rollout reaches 11 million installations
- SMS Plc supports DCC with development of next generation smart meter network
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 9 April 2018
- One year on: ‘Increased’ customer engagement in the retail water market
- DNOs now entitled to charge connection offer expenses for provision of quotation
- Consumers back smart meters in nationwide poll
- SMS Plc sponsors 'Smartly Sustainable' smart cities event
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 16 April 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 23 April 2018
- Energy efficiency: are you making the most of your half-hourly data?
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 30 April 2018
- Leading the smart energy revolution
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 7 May 2018
- Join us @ edie Live 2018 – Mission Possible: Achieving a Sustainable Future
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 14 May 2018
- SMS Plc awarded place on Crown Commercial Service Framework Agreement
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 28 May 2018
- How can smart meters help accelerate electric vehicle uptake?
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 4 June 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 11 June 2018
- 1.2 million domestic smart meters installed in first quarter of 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 18 June 2018
- SMS Plc is exhibiting at the Public Sector Show 2018
- AIMDA sets out to maintain competition in commercial metering services
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 25 June 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 2 July 2018
- Smart meter technology fund to help small businesses save energy
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 9 July 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 16 July 2018
- SMS Plc: metering and data services supplier to ESPO
- Government unveils streamlined energy and carbon reporting for large businesses
- Can the UK seize its ‘golden opportunity’ to decarbonise?
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 30 July 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 06 August 2018
- Data Communications Company makes progress with SMETS2 system testing
- UK government responds to smart meter rollout criticism
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 13 August 2018
- New energy risk forecaster allows businesses to project costs for next ten years
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 20 August 2018
- Smarter energy consumption on the rise with introduction of time-of-use tariffs
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 27 August 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 03 September 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 10 September 2018
- Smart meter rollout sees quarterly rise as installations exceed 12 million
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 17 September 2018
- Smart meter installation encouraged with the offer of cheaper ‘smart tariffs’
- Global smart electric meter market revenues to grow £1.5bn by 2023
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 24 September 2018
- Electric vehicles: three ways to accelerate the EV revolution
- YouGov: UK energy managers 'unsure' about impact of non-commodity costs
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 01 October 2018
- SMETS1 meters to 'stay smart', as BEIS confirms installation deadline extension
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 08 October 2018
- SMS Plc nominated for prize at Investor Relations Society's Best Practice Awards 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 15 October 2018
- Weekly Energy Market Insights - 29 October 2018
- Over 65s the most likely age group to own a smart meter, study finds
- Smart time-of-use tariff shows “significant impact” on energy consumption behaviour
- Energy Risk Forecaster: UK businesses to suffer two-fold blow of rising energy prices
- Join SMS Plc at the Energy Management Exhibition (EMEX)
- What does the Capacity Market suspension mean for electricity bills?
- National Audit Office publishes report on UK smart meter rollout
- First-generation smart meters “proven to be interoperable” with DCC network
- Six percent increase in number of smart meters operating, new industry report shows
- SMS Plc partners with Virgin Media on EV charging innovation project
- SMS Plc awarded a second SMETS1 metering test lab by the DCC
- SMS Plc appointed utility consultants on Wales’ largest housing development project
- Smart meter owners “more engaged” with energy usage than those without
- Ofgem proposes to make smart energy system “fairer” for consumers
- 8 myths about smart meters
- Smart Metering Outlook 2019
- Smart Metering Outlook 2019 (infographic)
- DCC reaches target of 250,000 SMETS2 smart meter installations
- Four energy trends to watch in 2019
- 7 essential energy policy dates in 2019
- One every nine minutes: record number of EVs registered last year
- Government proposes obligation on energy suppliers over replacement and new connection of smart meters
- Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting: official guidance published
- Government seeks to improve smart meter benefits for businesses
- 400,000 second generation smart meters now installed, confirms DCC