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The new Torse head office located in the well established and sought after business area of Nottingham city centre, Nottingham Lace Market has attracted much interest from the local press. The Nottingham Evening Post has published a story admiring Torse’s decision to move into such a prestigious location that holds so much history behind the original industries of Nottingham. Well that’s PR for you!

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Whilst the new Torse head office building could accurately be described as ‘old’, as they are Grade II listed buildings in the revitalised Lace Market area of Nottingham City Centre, we are excited about our new workspace in this vibrant area. A fair amount of preparation needs to be done first and but we will be moving into these attractive new premises soon! The move reflects an opportunity with the much increased space to build our client and supplier management teams, our data management and sustainability functions to enhance the levels of proactive support for Clients. There will be improved training and presentation facilities for internal activities and client and supplier visits.

Torse has been working in conjunction with ETC, The Environmental Technology Centre at Nottingham University, to balance Energy Management wishes with Conservation Area requirements. We have also been in discussion as to whether the Torse building could be linked into the Enviroenergy heating and energy network, although this may be a longer term project.

We will update you with more news and images soon. We look forward to meeting you at our new premises!

[/caption]British Gas have canceled their annual conference. This may well have been an excellent opportunity to hear BGB extolling their Smart meter successes, or reassuring businesses that slashing more than £100 million out of back Office Staff wouldn’t impact on Service Levels.

Businesses were probably as keen to try and understand how BGB’s current focus on increasing the value extracted from Business users would sit with a professed intention to offer high levels of service to SME groups.
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The Government has passed legislation requiring all suppliers to replace both Electricity and Gas meters with automatic meters for all (but the smallest) businesses by 6th April 2010. It might sound a long way away, but they will have to change 200,000 meters.

Guess who pays? The government has allowed suppliers to pass on all the costs to businesses. This will be either through your supply contract (much the same as it is for most businesses at the moment) or a separate AMR Metering contract. This will inevitably cause some confusion when Renewing or changing your Gas and Electricity supply contracts; the business or whoever looks after your Energy Supply arrangements will generally be able to assist in this area. This information really belongs to the business and so you can sort out all your own metering arrangements and not just keep paying the supplier.

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