Your kWh
Electricity, gas and water used this month, and the running total for the year.
Hospitality Energy Support
Your venue. Your bills. Your results.
Every month you get a clear picture of your site: what you used, what it cost, when the building peaked, how that compares with the same month last year, and the next small step worth taking. Not national averages, not a brand dashboard. Just your venue’s numbers and what to do about them.
For independent hotels, restaurants, pubs, leisure centres and venues. Written by a GM with 30 years’ experience. One site, one subscription. No hard sell.
Your monthly picture
One report, one venue. Everything in it comes from your own bills and, where you have it, your half-hourly meter data.
Your £
What it cost at your own tariff, so the savings are in money, not just units.
Your maximum demand (kVA)
The highest load your site pulled. Peaks drive capacity charges and show plant that all starts at once.
Your 30-minute heat map
Every half hour of the month on one grid: overnight base load, kitchen start-up, plant left running.
Same month last year
What changed against the same month a year ago, and the likely reason.
Your next small step
One or two practical actions for the team, a little at a time. No big capital ask unless the data backs it.
Example results
Anonymised client examples. Source: each site’s own half-hourly electricity meter data. Names, brands, meter numbers and contractors are withheld.
Anonymised client example
Hotel A — mid-size city-centre hotel
Electricity, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
550,858 kWh
9.3% less than the year before (607,420 kWh)
Jan – Sep 2026 vs Jan – Sep 2025
~41,212 kWh saved
about £8,613 at £0.209/kWh · 9.7% less
- Summer months fell from about 36,500 to about 29,300 kWh a month.
- Summer peak maximum demand dropped from about 85 kVA to about 67 kVA.
- Best month: July, 21% less than the July before.
What it shows: steady, month-by-month savings on one building, checked against its own previous year.
Anonymised client example
Hotel B — large full-service hotel
Electricity, per year
~1.17 GWh
Broadly flat year on year
Maximum demand
~200–229 kVA
High all year, summer and winter
- Here the first job isn’t just kWh. It’s the peak.
- Start with peak demand and plant control: what starts together, what runs overnight, what never switches off.
- The 30-minute heat map shows where to look first.
What it shows: every site is different. Your report starts with what your own data says matters most.
Results are specific to each site and are not a promise of savings at yours. Figures are rounded where marked “about” or “~”.
How it works
Low effort for you. You send the bills; we do the reading, the comparing and the reporting for your one site.
Subscribe
Choose Essential (£49) or Premium (£99) for one site, tied to that venue’s postcode.
Dedicated email
Get a dedicated address for that site’s electricity, gas and water bills.
Bills and meter data in
Forward invoices, or ask your supplier for copies and half-hourly data. We pull out your consumption, cost, peaks and trends.
Your monthly report
Your kWh, £, kVA, heat map, year-on-year change and next step. Premium adds “are you aware of these local grant schemes?” for your postcode area, plus dashboard, Green Tourism readiness and awards support.
Who it’s for
Built for independents and owner-operators. One subscription per site, so every report is about one building.
Hotels & spas
Bedrooms, laundry, pools, kitchens and cost per occupied bedroom.
Restaurants
Extraction, refrigeration, cooking kit and trading peaks.
Pubs & bars
Cellar cooling, heating and late trading load.
Leisure & gyms
Pools, air handling, hot water and base load.
Wedding & event venues
Seasonal spikes, heating and kitchen demand.
Packages
Month to month. Operational energy support — not a sales pitch for kit.
| What’s included | £49 Essential / month | £99 Premium / month |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated utility email (per site) | Yes | Yes |
| Electricity, gas & water monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly PDF report | Yes | Yes |
| Year-on-year comparisons | Yes | Yes |
| Savings identification | Basic | Detailed |
| Local grant schemes (by postcode) | — | Yes — “are you aware of these?” plus links to your local council’s grant pages (and national pots that fit: EV, solar, biomass BUS, CHPQA, voltage optimisation funding where relevant) |
| Energy performance dashboard | — | Yes |
| Green Tourism readiness support | — | Evidence pack from this site’s bills |
| Local tourism awards (Regenerative / sustainability) | — | One drafted entry per year for that site’s VisitEngland-aligned competition |
| Awards calendar alerts | — | ~3 months before your area’s awards open or close (by postcode) |
| Specialist introductions | On request | On request |
| Celebrate 12 months with us | Gift (~£25–£30): energy-saving bar, 20 LED bulbs, or smart plug set for home | Gift (~£25–£30): energy-saving bar, 20 LED bulbs, or smart plug set for home |
Prices exclude VAT where applicable. Essential and Premium are operational monitoring and practical advice — not an ESOS assessment and not a promise of guaranteed savings. After 12 continuous months with Hospitality Energy Support on one site, we celebrate with a small practical gift (~£25–£30) — something useful at work or at home to save money: energy-saving bar / socket set, 20 LED bulbs, or a smart plug set (while stocks last; one gift per subscription). Exact products we can swap as we source them. If you need statutory ESOS work, we can introduce a qualified partner (optional). See Do we need ESOS?. If we earn a referral fee from a partner introduction, we’ll say so. Technical work stays between you and the specialist you choose.
Small steps first, then ways to earn
Start with the free and cheap fixes your data points to. Bigger projects only when your numbers back them.
When data suggests a next step — lighting, heating controls, pool plant, variable speed drives, voltage optimisation, solar, EV charging, biomass pellets or gas CHP (including CCL relief via CHPQA) and more — we can introduce specialists who already work in hospitality. On Premium we also email links to your local council’s grant schemes for that postcode — different councils do different things.
Some sites can also earn: EV charging for guests and staff, and solar with surplus exported under the Smart Export Guarantee. We show what fits your roof, car park and load profile, not a generic pitch.
Why this approach
Simple and low-cost
Built for busy operators, not energy departments.
Practical
We focus on the key areas that drive your bill.
Grounded
30 years as a hospitality GM — advice that fits real kitchens, plant and guest comfort.
Current
Tuned to today’s cost pressure, staffing limits and funding options.
Big brands have the tools. Independents have us.
Energy is one of the hardest costs to control in hospitality. Bills arrive late, figures are hard to compare, and there’s rarely time to dig into overnight load, kitchen demand or plant that never sleeps.
Branded hotels get systems like Hilton LightStay, IHG Green Engage and Marriott Serve 360 to gather their energy and water data. Independents are usually left with a pile of invoices. We give you the same clarity for your own building, without a portal to feed or a dense consultancy pack: you send the bills, you get your results back.
Already on a brand system? Keep it for brand reporting; we don’t replace it.
Freebies & free help
Free water and energy resources, EV/solar grant pointers, plus a note for branded hotels. We don’t run these schemes; brand portals stay with the brand.
Water
National campaign tips, plus free audits and water-saving devices from many water companies (taps, showers, flush controls, leak fixes).
- Let’s Save Water — England & Wales water-efficiency campaign
- Southern Water — free water-saving audits & devices
- Severn Trent — free business water support
Ask your local water company or retailer what’s free for your postcode — schemes change.
Energy & lighting
Unlike water companies’ free tap/shower kits, there isn’t a nationwide “free LED bulbs for hotels” giveaway. What’s free is advice, assessments, and (by area) grants that often cover lighting.
- Zero Carbon — free hospitality energy tool / trial (England SMEs; lighting & heating tweaks in the advice)
- Scotland — free lighting assessment (then SME loan/cashback for LED upgrades)
- Business Energy Scotland — free SME advice
- Energy Saving Trust — SME tips
- Ofgem — find local grants & schemes (many cover LED lighting)
- GOV.UK — business finance & support finder (search your postcode for council grants)
Smart meters are usually installed at no extra cost via your supplier — useful for independents gathering their own data.
Local council grants
Different councils do different things. Premium emails you links like this for your postcode — we don’t run the schemes.
- Example — Sheffield Local Growth Fund Low Carbon Project — free energy survey + grant up to 50% (capped £30k) for SME premises in Sheffield; solar and efficiency (not EVs). Other South Yorkshire councils have their own pots.
- Find your local council — then their business / climate / grants pages (same idea as Sheffield, different every district)
- Workplace Charging Scheme — national EV grant, up to £500 per socket to 31 Mar 2027
- Boiler Upgrade Scheme — biomass — £5,000 off a new biomass boiler (England & Wales; rural + off gas grid; MCS installer). Heat pumps on the same scheme (£7,500 typical). Older pellet systems may still sit on legacy renewable-heat support — check your own scheme papers; Non-domestic RHI is closed to new applicants.
- CHPQA — Combined Heat & Power — Good Quality CHP (including gas CHP) can unlock a Climate Change Levy discount and related reliefs once certified — not a free plant grant. Worth checking if you already run CHP or are looking at it.
- Voltage optimisation — lowers incoming supply voltage so kit isn’t over-fed; often suits hotels/kitchens with continuous loads (fridges, laundry, motors). Needs a site survey first — not a free device giveaway. In Scotland it can sit under the SME Loan / cashback route; elsewhere check your council pot or ask us for a specialist intro if the bills suggest it.
- Find a government grant — national pots
- Smart Export Guarantee — pay for surplus solar you export
On Premium: “Are you aware of these local grant schemes?” with the matching council page links for that venue’s postcode — and we can flag BUS / CHPQA where they fit. Bigger plant (biomass, CHP) stays a specialist intro if the bills point that way.
Branded vs independent
Hilton LightStay, IHG Green Engage, Marriott Serve 360 / MESH and similar gather energy and water data for branded hotels. We’re building the same kind of clarity for independent hotels and hospitality businesses — who don’t get those systems.
- Hilton LightStay — brand data & reporting (owner/franchise portal)
- IHG Green Engage — required brand sustainability system
- Marriott Serve 360 — brand ESG / MESH reporting
Already on a brand system? Keep using it for brand reporting — we don’t replace it. Independents: this is the gathering and monthly clarity those tools provide, without the brand.
ESOS scope
Not sure if your group is in ESOS? Use our checker, or book the £19 guided check.
About
Hospitality Energy Support is built by someone who’s spent three decades running hospitality operations — not selling theory from outside the building. The aim is straightforward: help you understand your energy, cut avoidable cost, and move on the improvements that make sense.
Looking for a hotel-focused page? Visit Hotel Energy Support.
FAQ
Are the example results real?
Yes. Hotel A and Hotel B are anonymised client examples taken from each site’s own half-hourly meter data. We never name a client, brand, meter or contractor. Your results will be your own and aren’t guaranteed.
What do I need to send?
Recent electricity, gas and water invoices (PDFs or email forwards). Half-hourly meter data from your supplier makes the heat map and kVA picture possible. Occupancy figures help hotel reporting but aren’t required to start.
How soon will I get a report?
After the first usable bills are in, you’ll get a first report, then a monthly cadence.
Is this an ESOS assessment?
No. Essential and Premium are operational monitoring — not ESOS. Phase 4 qualifies on 31 December 2026 with compliance notification by 5 December 2027. Use our simple Do we need ESOS? checker, then confirm on GOV.UK. If you need the statutory assessment, we can introduce a qualified partner.
Can I cancel?
Yes — month to month. No long lock-in on the core subscriptions.
Can one subscription cover several venues?
No. One subscription = one hotel or venue, tied to that site’s postcode. Each extra site needs its own subscription.
What does Premium add for Green Tourism and awards?
Premium helps turn this site’s energy results into evidence for Green Tourism readiness, drafts one Regenerative / sustainability tourism awards entry per year for your local VisitEngland-aligned competition, and emails you about three months before that area’s awards open or close.
What are the Premium local grant alerts?
Different councils do different things — a solar or EV pot in one district may not exist next door. We map your venue’s postcode to your council, then nudge you with links to that council’s own grant or climate pages (and any national pots that fit): “Are you aware of these local grant schemes?” We don’t apply for you; we hand you the right links for your area.
Ready to see your own results?
Email hello@hospitalityenergysupport.co.uk or start Essential today. One site, one subscription.