Are You Paying Too Much for Business Utilities?
If you manage a budget or run a business in the UK, it’s hard to know whether your gas, electricity, water, or telecoms bills are correct – especially across sites, meters, and contract changes. Energy Marketing and Trading Ltd validates your bills, recovers overcharges going back up to six years, and gives you board-ready clarity so you can protect margin and plan with confidence.
For business owners, finance directors, and utility managers spending £500k–£5M per year on utilities.
What You Gain
- Budget certainty – validate rates, kWh, kVA, standing charges, and non-commodity costs.
- Margin protection – recover historical overcharges and stop ongoing leakage.
- Board-ready visibility – clean, auditable reports that stand up to scrutiny.
Who We Help
Multi-site businesses, manufacturers, hospitality and retail groups, logistics, education and care providers—any UK organisation with complex utility billing and material spend.
How We Work
Independent validation across contracts, invoices, meter data, and industry flows. Transparent findings. You approve actions; we correct bills and recover funds. Start with a no-obligation assessment.
The Hidden Risks of Incorrect Utility Bills
Utility billing is complex. Errors creep in when meters are changed, sites open/close, contracts roll, or estimates are used for too long. If no one validates the detail, cost leakage builds quietly and eats into margin. Typical issues we uncover include:
- Incorrect rates or non-commodity pass-through charges applied against the wrong tariff bands.
- Estimated consumption that never trues-up, masking real usage and inflating accruals.
- Wrong meter configuration (profile class, MPAN/MPRN mismatches, kVA capacity) leading to excessive capacity and DUoS/TNUoS charges.
- Duplicate billing during supplier switches or after meter replacements.
- Out-of-contract rates applied after a missed renewal window.
- VAT and CCL errors for exempt/partially exempt organisations.
Left unchecked, these issues distort budgets, and undermine your ability to forecast. Our validation service is designed to find and fix them—retrospectively up to six years—and to lock in controls going forward.
How Bill Validation Creates Board-Ready Clarity
We reconcile every invoice line against contracted terms and meter data. Where there’s an exception, we flag it, quantify the variance, and document the root cause. You receive a summary that finance can present to the board, plus a remediation plan you can track to closure.
For Business Owners
Turn uncertainty into cash recovery and clearer run-rate. Get a simple yes/no on accuracy and a quantified savings pipeline, without drowning in technical jargon.
For Finance Directors
Replace estimates with evidence. Tighten accruals, improve forecast accuracy, and safeguard margin. Our reports map to GL codes and include audit trails.
For Utility Managers
Gain a second set of eyes on complex charges and capacity levels. We help correct supplier records, right-size kVA, and stop recurring errors at the source.
What Our Validation Delivers
- Cash recovery from historic overbilling, with supplier-backed credit notes or refunds.
- Corrected invoicing going forward—rates, tariffs, and capacity aligned to reality.
- Exception dashboards so you can track issues by site, meter, and supplier.
- Governance-ready documentation that supports internal audit and external review.
Most importantly, you’ll know you’re paying only for the utilities your business actually uses—no more, no less.
Start With a Simple, No-Obligation Check
Getting started is straightforward. Share recent invoices, contract schedules, and meter identifiers. We run a preliminary validation and show you where the red flags are. If you instruct us to proceed, we complete the full six-year retrospective review and implement corrections with your suppliers.
Prefer to see the full method first? Read How It Works for the step-by-step.
Resources to Build Confidence
We publish practical guides to help you understand charges, spot errors, and engage suppliers effectively. Start here:
- Bill Accuracy & Compliance – understand the components of a utility invoice.
- Capacity & Non-Commodity Charges – why kVA and pass-throughs matter.
- Data Readiness – what to prepare for a smooth validation.
Visit the Resource Hub for more articles and explainers.
Ready to Validate Your Bills?
Submit your latest invoices and contract details. We’ll confirm accuracy, identify any errors, and recover what you’re owed.
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Who This Is For
- Business Owners & Managing Directors
- Finance Directors & Controllers
- Procurement & Utility Managers
Assurance
Independent, evidence-based validation. Clear documentation. You stay in control of decisions and approvals.