If your business is overpaying for energy, it is almost certainly not because you made a bad call. It is because of how the contracts are built. That is worth saying plainly, because the guilt people feel about it stops them doing the simple thing that fixes it.
How the overpaying happens
When a fixed-term energy contract ends, your supply does not stop. Instead, unless you have agreed a new deal, you get moved onto a rollover or out-of-contract rate. These rates are significantly higher than what you would agree by choice, and worse, they keep running indefinitely until someone does something about it.
So a business can sit on an inflated rate for months, even years, not through carelessness, but because nobody flagged the renewal and nothing prompted a review.
The myth that keeps people stuck
The biggest reason businesses do not switch is a worry that turns out to be false: that changing supplier will disrupt the business. It will not. Switching business energy does not interrupt your supply. There is no break in service, no engineer, no downtime. The electricity and gas keep flowing exactly as before. The only thing that changes is the rate and the name on the bill.
Why inaction sticks around
A few things keep owners from acting:
- Contracts feel technical and a bit daunting
- The process seems like it will eat time you do not have
- People assume the saving will be too small to bother with
That last one is usually wrong. Even a modest difference in unit rate, spread across every unit you use over a year, adds up to real money. For energy-hungry sectors like hospitality and manufacturing, the gap between a fair rate and a rollover rate can be substantial.
How a review actually works
It is far simpler than the worry suggests. You send us a recent bill, we analyse the market on your behalf, we explain in plain English where you stand, and you decide. Five steps, fully transparent, no obligation to do anything at the end of it.
We’re paid by the supplier when you switch, never by you, so the review is free and there is no fee for the work.
Why it pays to keep reviewing
Energy prices move constantly. A rate that was sharp eighteen months ago may be well off the pace now. Reviewing your contract regularly, rather than once and never again, is how you keep catching better pricing and better terms before you drift onto a default rate.
What to do this week
The fix here is genuinely small. Find your latest energy bill, check whether it mentions a variable or out-of-contract rate, and if you are not sure, upload it at /upload-bill/. We will mark it up for free and tell you whether you are overpaying, usually back to you the same day.