We all do this, right? Make some New Year’s resolutions to better ourselves around January 1, swear we’ll follow through, but then give up on them by the end of the month!

Here is one business resolution for you for 2023 that will improve profitability, greatly reduce costs, increase employee and customer satisfaction, and reduce operational costs. Create and implement your own energy management plan. It’s more important than ever. In case you didn’t notice, energy prices soared in the US in 2022, up 13.1% overall. This rise had to impact just about every business. What should you do? Just shrug your shoulders and “take it”? No. You can control costs by developing and implementing energy strategies in 2023! And the cost savings of smart strategies can be enjoyed right in your first billing cycle.

What is an Energy Management Plan? It is simply strategically managing your business’s energy usage to ensure it is there when you need it, at an affordable cost. You can implement smart energy saving projects piecemeal or develop a coordinated strategy to align business practices with energy efficiency.

A strategic energy management plan can help you in 2023 in these ways:
• Reduce your costs. Do you enjoy seeing Bookkeeping writing out a large check to the utility every month? In most cases, you can do the operations your business needs to do but do so using less energy, based on smart, proven, new technologies. An analysis of options and whether it benefits your business can lead to significantly reduced costs and greater equipment reliability.
• Risk reduction. It’s hard to believe, but there are parts of this country whose energy infrastructure is not robust enough to guarantee electric or natural gas supply at all times when needed. Imagine the impacts on your business if you had no power – even for a short time. Your operations, equipment, refrigeration, data center! Being more efficient and having backup sources will reduce your business’s risk of a catastrophic failure and, thus, improve stability when faced with potential outages or high costs.
• Competitive advantage. Any way you can smartly reduce energy costs will put you in an advantageous situation compared to others who don’t address this.
• Customer/Employee satisfaction. A comfortable, well-lit, and, yes, green premises will lead to greater satisfaction among customers and employees lead to increased business and greater workforce retention and talent acquisition, the latter being a very big business advantage in this era of worker shortages.

Start slowly but make your 2023 New Year’s resolution to not accept high energy prices, but to smartly use technology, when applicable, to do better and reap the great benefits.

CCES has the experts to help your business develop such a plan tailored to your needs to be energy efficient and develop backup plans for greater reliability. Contact us today at 914-584-6720 or at karell@CCESworld.com. Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year!