Business Energy Users Survey - Winter 2008/09 - Moffatt Associates

npower Business Energy Index 2009npower Business Energy Index 20091.2 Components of company energy costs(b) MEUs – Industrial processesResponse SMEs (3) SMEs (4) SMEs (5) SMEs (6) MEUs (3) MEUs (4) MEUs (5) MEUs (6)Gas 16.0% 19.2% 22.9% 22.7% 41.2% 36.4% 40.6% 43.2%Oil 4.9% 4.2% 4.8% 5.1% 2.1% 1.6% 1.8% 1.0%Coal 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.9%LPG 0.1% 2.1% 0.2% 0.7% 1.9% 1.2% 0.5% 1.3%Electricity 78.7% 73.8% 72.2% 71.5% 54.7% 60.2% 57.1% 53.5%Response All MEUs Manufacturing Public sector ServicesLess than 10% 27% 3% 78% 46%Less than 20% 1% 0% 4% 0%Less than 30% 0% 0% 0% 0%Less than 40% 0% 0% 0% 0%Less than 50% 2% 2% 4% 0%50% or more 69% 95% 13% 54%•The relative importance of gas and power ascomponents of a company’s energy costs havemore or less remained unchanged across bothMEUs and SMEs.•MEU reliance on gas (43.2%) and electricity(53.3%) remains high in both cases, whereasSMEs are significantly more reliant on electricity(71.5%) than they are on gas (22.7%).•95% of manufacturing MEUs indicated that 50% ormore of their energy related costs were attributableto industrial processes, in comparison with 54%in the service sector and 13% in the public sector.1.3 Proportion of energy costs related to (a) building services and(b) industrial processes (MEUs only)1.4 Estimated increase or decrease in company energy costs over the last six months(a) MEUs – Building servicesResponse All MEUs Manufacturing Public sector ServicesLess than 10% 39% 60% 8% 8%Response SMEs (4) SMEs (5) SMEs (6) MEUs (4) MEUs (5) MEUs (6) All (4) All (5) All (6)Increased 71% 24% 93% 52% 22% 57% 62% 23% 81%Decreased 4% 14% 7% 14% 45% 43% 9% 30% 19%Less than 20% 16% 23% 4% 8%Less than 30% 7% 9% 0% 15%Less than 40% 1% 0% 0% 8%Response SMEs (4) SMEs (5) SMEs (6) MEUs (4) MEUs (5) MEUs (6) All (4) All (5) All (6)Average 9.0% 18% 48.0% 12.8% 19.0% 32.3% 10.9% 18.0% 42.7%Less than 50% 0% 0% 0% 0%50% or more 36% 9% 88% 62%•Taken as a whole, businesses have experiencedan increase in energy costs in the last six months.•Virtually all SMEs (93%) reported that energy costshad increased, with an average reported rise of 48%.•MEUs operating in the public sector reportedthat 88% of energy costs were related to buildingservices, this compares to 62% in the servicesector and only 9% in manufacturing.•A smaller majority of MEUs (57%) also reports costincreases, and the average reported rise was alsolower (32.3%). Also, a significant minority of MEUs(43%), reported that costs have fallen in line withrecent falls in oil and gas prices.•MEUs in the public sector experienced the largestincreases in energy costs (72%).1213