Renewable power. No panels required.
Nothing to install. Each half hour, your sites’ demand is matched to output from renewable generators in the private energy market, with a quote to set beside your current contract.
Who it’s for
Businesses that want to know where their power comes from.
It suits
- One site or many
- A contract ending within 12 months, or out of contract
- Happy to switch supplier
What you gain
Know where your power comes from
Matched with UK renewable generators selling through the market.
Nothing to build or maintain
No panels, batteries or new connections at your sites.
A quote you can compare
Line by line against your current contract.
Sites move as their contracts allow
All together, or each as its contract ends.
How the market works
Matched every half hour, delivered over the grid you already use.
The private energy market is one marketplace. Renewable generators sell on one side and businesses like yours buy on the other. In the middle, our licensed supplier partner matches and settles every half hour.
A day’s 48 half hours
Matched and settled every half hour. The electricity itself travels over the public grid.
Renewable generatorsselling through the market
Licensed supplier partnermatches and settles
Your sitesand other buyers
A commercial match
Each half hour, our licensed supplier partner pairs generators’ output with your demand and settles it.
Delivered as now
No dedicated cable runs from a generator to your sites. The electricity reaches you over the public grid.
Not matched
Whatever isn’t matched is supplied in the usual way, so we don’t describe your supply as wholly renewable or put a percentage on it.
What to expect
What changes, and what stays the same.
What changes
- Your supplier, to our licensed supplier partner
- Your supply contract and its terms
- Who bills each site
What stays the same
- Your connection to the grid
- The way electricity reaches your sites
- How your sites run, day to day
Buying and selling through the private energy market is settled by our licensed supplier partner, which is named in your contract.
Switching
How switching works
You
Step 1 of 4: Tell us about your sites
Where they are, how they’re metered and when each contract ends. Leaving a fixed contract early can carry exit charges.
How many sites?
Pick one and the enquiry opens on question two.
Supplier partner
Step 2 of 4: A quote you can compare
If your sites fit, the supplier partner quotes. Read its volume terms (charges if use moves far from forecast) and its exit terms.
You decide
Step 3 of 4: Each site switches on its own date
A business supply contract may have no cooling-off period, so take the time you need with the quote. Then sites move together or one by one, as their contracts allow.
Supplier partner
Step 4 of 4: One bill per site
From its switch date, each site is supplied and billed by the supplier partner, and its demand is matched every half hour.
Suitability
Is your site set up for this?
A half-hourly meter at each site
It records a site’s use in each of the day’s 48 half hours, which is what matching needs. If a site doesn’t have one, we can tell you what fitting one involves.
Not sure?
Look for a supply number (MPAN) starting 00 on your bill. Still not sure? Say so in the enquiry and we’ll check.
No half-hourly meter?
Our sister company Smart Energy Switch can find that site a better gas or electricity contract.
Supply number (MPAN)
00: half-hourly
Several sites?
Tell us how many and we look at them together, in one enquiry.
FAQs
Questions about buying
More in the FAQs, including contracts, metering and switching.
Our promises
Everything in writing first. Prices, the term and the company you contract with are in writing before you sign anything.
No obligation. An enquiry commits you to nothing.
A straight answer. If your site doesn’t suit, we tell you, and point you to what might.
No sales calls. We only phone you if you ask us to.
Start here
Could your sites buy through the market?
Tell us how many sites you have and when their contracts end, and Shayma or a colleague in the team will reply with whether your sites could buy renewable electricity through the private energy market.
Shayma Boukeras
Renewable Energy Adviser, Cwmbran.
Smart Energy Markets Ltd, Cwmbran.
How many sites would you buy for?
Or pick an answer above and the enquiry opens with it already chosen. You can change any answer before you send it.