Get the cheapest business gas prices with Energy Advice Line

The Energy Advice Line is one of the UK’s leading price comparison and switching service for business gas. Established in 2006 and helping 1000’s of businesses every year compare the market for the lowest prices, Energy Advice Line are here to help you save money.

We continually campaign for a better deal for all energy users, including calling for a ban on cold calling, and changes to the regulations in order to make it easier for all consumers, both business and domestic, to switch their suppliers.

Our service is completely independent and absolutely free of charge. Businesses can quickly and simply search the market for the best available energy deals from an extensive panel of both small and large energy suppliers.

We compare the market with an extensive panel of suppliers to offer customers complete transparency

We are uniquely positioned by having terms with an extensive supplier panel and working closely with each one to get our customers the best possible prices on their energy contracts. We are, however, not aligned with any of the suppliers but work on behalf of our customers to get the best possible contract option in terms of price and duration.

Looking for the best available commercial gas prices in the market when your fixed-term contract expires is the easiest way to save your business money. Using a reputable price comparison service like the Energy Advice Line is more likely to help lower your bills than if you stay with the same supplier year after year. There is no doubt that it literally pays to shop around in order to stay in control of your company’s supply. It is also more important than ever in a climbing market to compare prices, as global energy prices continue to spiral upwards. Firms in energy-intensive sectors can save thousands of pounds each year by using an expert to find them the cheapest prices available.

We give you our best price first time!

At the Energy Advice Line we compare gas prices online quickly and efficiently by collecting your information along with your meter address postcode, our quote engine then proposes the best rates around for your business. Our best price first time policy guarantees that our customers get full price transparency and a service that they can always trust year on year.

Keep it simple and seamless – that’s why our customers come back year on year

Our business objective is to make the price comparison and switching process as simple, and as seamless, as possible. This means that while we do the legwork to ensure you get the best prices, you can get on with running your company. Our panel is made up of both large and small supply companies, and offers a wide range of choice.

This way you not only get the lowest prices on the market, but you will also be in the best position to benefit from our future deals.

A service designed exclusively for you!

We are the only service of this kind designed exclusively for companies, and our team of experts have extensive knowledge of commercial gas prices, as well as the available contracts. We will also help you through the switching process when you change suppliers. There will be no interruption to your supply as the changeover happens.

We will also help to ensure that you avoid getting stuck in an expensive rollover deal when your fixed-term contracts ends. Unless you give notice to your supplier and shop around for a better deal, the business energy prices you are paying now could increase significantly overnight. We pride ourselves on being a Consumer Champion, helping firms of all sizes find the cheapest prices on the business energy market.

Reduce the price you pay for your Business Gas

Business gas meters consume in the region of 8,125 TWh’s annually which accounts for the significant proportion of energy consumed by businesses in the UK.

Gas meters however only account for approximately 24% of the volume of meters if we look at the mix of business electricity and gas meters in the UK.

No of Business Elec meter points – 2,758,425
No of Business Gas meter points – 878,525

Source: Cornwall Energy Non Domestic energy supply report 2014 (Q1)

It has never been more important to reduce the amount you pay for your business gas. Energy Advice Line can help.

We are one of the UK’s leading price comparison and switching service. Established in 2006 we challenged the status quo and made price comparison and switching for businesses as transparent as doing the same for household energy.

We have continued to help 1000’s of businesses save money on their gas bills every year by comparing prices with the UK’s leading energy suppliers. We only offer business customers the best rate first time as our business model dictates that we try and save customers as much money as possible.

A supplier’s business model dictates that they need to earn as much money as possible from their customers so there is a very strong likelihood that they will not offer the best gas or electricity rate to you first time. If they did this, the simple fact is that they would reduce their profit margin significantly. Although a supplier directly will often adopt a price match approach so it looks like they are being fair to their customers, we strongly believe that is not a very transparent way of approaching a loyal customer on renewal.

The most transparent approach should be a best price first time policy as customers know where they stand, they can compare the market and make a quick decision rather than being told that if their customer can get a better price, they “might” be able to match it.

A supplier is almost incentivizing its customer to go and do the work they should be doing and over complicating the renewal process for their customer by going with the price match approach. In business, time is money and a business owner or key decision maker needs to weigh up the time that they spend by going through the price match “challenge” with their current supplier. It can take a lot of time and the saving in the end is eroded when you take this into account – especially in business as we all know that you cannot get time back.

The Energy Advice Line constantly challenge its supplier partners for their best price so they can pass this onto their customer every time. We are paid a referral commission from the supplier partner that we place the customer with – this is usually in the region of £100.00 – £150.00 per referral. However, this amount depends a lot on what the supplier partner pays and the length of the contract.

Will a business customer get a better price going to a supplier directly?

The basic answer to this is a supplier might be able to reduce their offer to you if they believe that they are at risk of losing you as their customer. However, they will not offer this price to you first time and will require you to shop the market and go back with proof of a more competitive price.

You can do this but I think we have proved that this can often count against you in terms of time and effort. If you make a note of your time and put a cost against it then add in the time that you have lost that could have been utilized to growing your business, the price match approach adopted by some suppliers is actually not treating you with an awful lot of respect.

I have just moved into a new business premises – what do I need to do?

It can take between 15 and 45 days to swap energy supplier (depending on the supplier you choose) so it is important that a business addresses how much it is paying for its utilities as soon as they possibly can.

I am sure that you will have a list a mile long of things you need to do when moving in but it is so important to address how much you pay for your critical costs before they start to erode the overall business profit margin.

Let’s take a new restaurant start up as an example. A supplier will charge you what are called deemed rates when you move into the premises. These tend to be 30% higher than a fixed term contract prices from an online price comparison site – so if we take a spend of £800.00 for gas and electricity per month, the deemed rate at 30% extra would be an extra £342.00 every month until the point the situation is addressed and you agree to a fixed term agreement.

Most suppliers bill you every 3 months, so you could get a nasty surprise 3 months into running your business when margins are tighter than ever and you are under pressure trying to increase your customer base. The extra £1,026.00 could have been put too much better use than paying deemed contract rate charges to your energy supplier!

It only takes a matter of minutes to compare the market, signup and get the switch underway to your new energy supplier. If we take the above restaurant start up as an example, a few minutes could save you over £1,000.00.

Please also be warned however that you will be called by unsolicited cold callers with a very short period of time of moving in to your new premises. The cold callers will know that you are paying deemed rates and will usually offer you a slightly better rate which might save you 4-5%. This on the face of it seems like a reasonable offer as they are making you a saving – however, the most important thing to remember is that they are saving you 4-5% on your deemed rates which can be 30% more expensive than fixed term rates with an online price comparison service. So you will now be paying 25% more than you should be!

Although accepting the price from the unsolicited cold caller might appear to be the easiest option as they are on the phone, we would really advise you to get the rate that is being offered and quickly go online to as we can assure you will find a much cheaper rate for your business.

More importantly, you were in control of the entire process and assured that the correct decision has been made for your businesses trading future.

Campaigning for a better more transparent energy market

We continually campaign for a better deal for all energy users, including calling for a ban on cold calling, and changes to the regulations in order to make it easier for all consumers, both business and domestic, to switch their suppliers.

Our service is completely independent and absolutely free of charge. Businesses can quickly and simply search the market for the best available energy deals from an extensive panel of both small and large energy suppliers.

We compare the market with an extensive panel of suppliers to offer customers complete transparency

We are uniquely positioned by having terms with an extensive supplier panel and working closely with each one to get our customers the best possible prices on their energy contracts.

We are, however, not aligned with any of the suppliers but work on behalf of our customers to get the best possible contract option in terms of price and duration.

Looking for the best available commercial gas prices in the market when your fixed-term contract expires is the easiest way to save your business money. Using a reputable price comparison service like the Energy Advice Line is more likely to help lower your bills than if you stay with the same supplier year after year.

There is no doubt that it literally pays to shop around in order to stay in control of your company’s supply. It is also more important than ever in a climbing market to compare prices, as global energy prices continue to spiral upwards. Firms in energy-intensive sectors can save thousands of pounds each year by using an expert to find them the cheapest prices available.

We give you our best price first time!

At the Energy Advice Line we compare gas prices online quickly and efficiently by collecting your information along with your meter address postcode, our quote engine then proposes the best rates around for your business. Our best price first time policy guarantees that our customers get full price transparency and a service that they can always trust year on year.

Keep it simple and seamless – that’s why our customers come back year on year

Our business objective is to make the price comparison and switching process as simple, and as seamless, as possible. This means that while we do the legwork to ensure you get the best prices, you can get on with running your company. Our panel is made up of both large and small supply companies, and offers a wide range of choice.

This way you not only get the lowest prices on the market, but you will also be in the best position to benefit from our future deals.

A service designed exclusively for you!

We are the only service of this kind designed exclusively for companies, and our team of experts have extensive knowledge of commercial gas prices, as well as the available contracts. We will also help you through the switching process when you change suppliers. There will be no interruption to your supply as the changeover happens.

We will also help to ensure that you avoid getting stuck in an expensive rollover deal when your fixed-term contracts ends. Unless you give notice to your supplier and shop around for a better deal, the business energy prices you are paying now could increase significantly overnight. We pride ourselves on being a Consumer Champion, helping firms of all sizes find the cheapest prices on the business energy market.