Cheaper off-peak electricity for business consumers

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Check if your business could save by using more electricity outside peak periods.

The way electricity suppliers buy energy and pay to transport it to some business consumers is changing. This creates new opportunities for these consumers to get the benefits of advanced meters and save money by using electricity when it is cheapest.

This guide outlines, for larger business consumers, the changes that their suppliers will be making to how they purchase and pay for energy. This will affect the contracts that some of these customers hold, and therefore the types of contract and tariffs they will pay.