Energy Made Visible
Half-hourly energy monitoring, bill validation, and multi-site benchmarking. Included free when your supply contract sits with Purely Energy.
Insights is included free because you have signed your business gas or electricity supply contract through us. We earn from a disclosed broker margin on the supply, between 0.3p and 1.0p per kWh depending on volume and term, the same margin we would earn whether or not you used the dashboard. No tying, no kit-rental fees, no per-meter charges, no hidden uplift on the unit rate. The platform improves how we price, time, and renew your supply, so the better your data, the better the deals we put in front of you.
The dashboard pulls half-hourly meter readings from your supplier data feeds and our Elexon-accredited MOP pipeline, refreshes roughly 30 minutes after settlement, and consolidates every site under one login regardless of supplier. Non-half-hourly meters arrive via AMR and supplier billing. Circuit-level sub-meters stream through the same pipeline where you have asked for them. The FD sees cost, facilities sees kWh, and sustainability sees kgCO2e, all from one record.
When the platform flags an overcharge, our account team raises the credit note with the supplier and chases it to ledger. You do not lift a finger. When a contract is approaching end, we send a renewal recommendation with the wholesale, non-commodity, supplier margin, and Purely margin shown separately. The platform earns its keep by acting on what it shows, and we make sure someone does.
What it does for you
Overnight baseload, weekend BMS overrides, and out-of-hours spikes get flagged the day they happen. Fixed in one shift, not three months later on the bill.
Every supplier invoice gets checked against your contracted rate, line-by-line. When something is wrong, our account team raises the credit note. You do not chase anyone.
One dashboard regardless of supplier or fuel. The FD reads £, facilities reads kWh, sustainability reads kgCO2e, all from the same record.
SECR, ESOS Phase 4, ISO 50001, and CDP exports come straight from the same data. Savings are measured against weather-adjusted baselines so the board-pack figure survives audit.
Energy made visible turns into savings made measurable. Named clients, the saving figure first, the mechanism second.
£22,668 saved over three years
Typocolor
Previous gas contract cost £37,379.72 a year. After a tender that beat four other brokers, the new contract came in at £29,823.63 a year, an annual saving of £7,556.09 (roughly 20 percent off the gas bill) on a sustainable-manufacturing site with FSC-certified production.
Purely Energy tendered against four other brokers and came back with the best deal, on a contract that holds for three years.Read the full case study
£67,625 saved a year
Good Taste Bakery
Multi-site independent bakery across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire. Annual energy bill cut from £150,000 to £82,375 after re-tendering an incumbent broker contract that was not competitive. Now used as the procurement route for every new site they open.
Whenever we open a new site, we contact Purely. They handle the change of tenancy as well as the procurement, and the rates beat what we were getting before.Read the full case study
More named outcomes across other sectors
Professional Services
£37,435 saved across three gas meters
Mahne & Mahne (property management, London)
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£5,987 a year saved, £17,961 over three years, zero standing charge fixed
PTS Property (100+ unit portfolio)
Read case studyEducation
£26,347 a year saved after a kVA review
Bosvena School
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£5,641 a year saved on out-of-hours consumption
Watford Grammar School for Boys
Read case studySee what Insights would surface across your sites.
Send us your meter list, we will come back with a portfolio-specific saving estimate.
Snippet answer
Real-time energy monitoring is the practice of pulling half-hourly meter and sub-meter readings continuously, turning them into dashboards, alerts, and reports finance, facilities, and sustainability teams can act on. Done well, it makes energy visible at the half-hour and converts utility bills from a quarterly surprise into a live operational signal, with verified savings, lower carbon intensity, and audit-ready half-hourly settlement, SECR, and ESOS reporting. Purely Insights ships this with every Purely Energy supply contract.
For a side-by-side comparator of UK platforms, see compare UK energy monitoring platforms.
From contract sign to live dashboard: 7 to 14 working days. No install required for HH-metered electricity. No install required for AMR-metered gas.
7 to 14 working days
Step 1
Choose fixed or flex, sign on your supply (gas, electricity, dual fuel, water). The dashboard is bundled, you do not sign anything separately for Insights.
Step 2
MPAN and MPRN list, or your most recent bill set. We accept email, CSV, or a shared folder. Most accounts teams complete this in well under an hour, end to end.
Step 3
Standard letters of authority to your incoming supplier and to the meter operator. We pre-fill them. You sign electronically, no notary, no printing.
Step 4
Half-hourly data arrives, baselines build over the first 13 weeks. Email alert recipients set. No install required for HH-metered electricity, no install required for AMR-metered gas.
Sub-metering installs, only where you have specifically asked for them, are typically a 1 to 2 hour electrician visit per circuit and slot into your normal maintenance window.
Who owns it inside your business: you nominate one person to read the monthly pack, typically the Finance Manager, Operations Lead, or owner-operator. Expect 30 to 60 minutes a month, no more. Everything else (chasing credits, validating invoices, filing renewal recommendations) sits on our side.
Same platform on every contract. The tiers are about how much account-team time we put alongside the data.
Under £150k annual energy spend
Single-site SME and small multi-site
Dashboard, monthly billing pack, automatic bill validation, renewal-window alerts, all included. Same platform a 200-meter portfolio uses.
£150k to £2m annual energy spend
Mid-market, 2 to 50 sites
Adds multi-site benchmarking, SECR-ready exports, weather-adjusted comparisons, and consolidated reporting across every supplier on your panel.
Above £2m annual energy spend
Large corporate and I&C, 50+ sites or 10 GWh+
Adds a named energy analyst, bespoke KPI dashboards, NCC modelling, ESOS Phase 4 evidence pack production, and dispatch verification for demand-flex revenue stacking.
What it costs you
No per-meter fee, no kit-rental charge, no minimum portfolio size, no separate Insights invoice. One dashboard, one supply contract, one named account team.
Purely Energy earns a disclosed broker margin on the supply contract, between 0.3p and 1.0p per kWh depending on volume and term, shown line-by-line on every quote. No hidden uplift on the unit rate.
How Purely Energy gets paid in fullBalance-sheet impact
Insights uses the half-hourly data the meter operator already sends to your supplier. There is no kit on your balance sheet and no lease line on your P&L. If you ever need granular sub-metering of a specific load (a production line, a refrigeration bank, a sub-tenant), we supply, install, and own the sensors. The hardware sits on our balance sheet, the data sits on yours, no capex and no lease. If you leave us, the sensors come back to us at no notice cost.
On a factory floor
You do not have to source your own electrician. Our installer of choice is NICEIC-registered with £10m public liability cover, and we can arrange and project-manage the install for you, or coordinate with your in-house maintenance team if you would prefer them to do the live-LV work. RAMS and competency cards are issued before any visit, either way.
Every feature listed ships in the standard product. Nothing here is a paid upgrade.
The technical answers procurement, finance, and IT will ask for.
| Meter compatibility | HH (P5 to P8), NHH (P1 to P4), AMR, smart, sub-meter, manual upload fallback |
|---|---|
| Data refresh | Half-hourly meters: 30 minutes after settlement. AMR: daily. Sub-meter: per device cadence. |
| Historical data | Up to 6 years where supplier data flows allow |
| Site capacity | 1 to 1,000+ meters per account, sub-meters in addition |
| Users per account | Unlimited, role-based permissions per site, group, or function |
| Export formats | CSV, Excel, PDF, board-pack PDF, JSON API on request |
| Alert channels | Email, SMS, webhook |
| Carbon factors | DEFRA latest published, refreshed annually |
| Compliance exports | SECR, ESOS Phase 4, ISO 50001 evidence pack, CDP |
| Browser support | Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari (current and current-1) |
| Security and data | ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus aligned, UK data residency, you own the data |
| Cost to customers | Included free with every Purely Energy contract, no per-meter fee, no minimum portfolio size |
Side-by-side against the realistic alternatives, no straw men.
| Feature | Purely Insights (included) | Supplier portal | Standalone monitoring (third party) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-supplier consolidation | Yes, one view | Single supplier only | Yes |
| Half-hourly granularity | Yes, refreshed every 30 minutes | Sometimes | Yes |
| Wireless sub-metering at circuit level | Supported where installed | Rarely | Often hardware-only |
| Anomaly detection and alerts | Built in, configurable | Rare or basic | Add-on or premium tier |
| Bill validation against contract | Automatic every cycle | Manual download | Often manual |
| Carbon reporting (SECR, ESOS, CDP) | Built in, exports ready | Manual | Add-on |
| Tied to procurement decisions | Yes, feeds Flex and renewals | No | No |
| Demand-flex revenue stacking | Baseline data feeds DFS, CM, DNO | No | No |
| Continuous savings verification | Built in, year-on-year | No | Project-by-project |
| Per-meter cost | Free | Free, limited features | £15 to £80 per meter per month |
Scenarios from the Purely Energy book of business.
| Customer profile | Scenario | Outcome with Purely Insights |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-academy trust, 22 schools | Bursar needed weekend-heating exceptions flagged before the term ran out of budget. | Insights flagged 6 sites with weekend baseload above 8 kW, BMS reset across all 6, projected £41k saving for the academic year. |
| Hotel group, 11 properties | Suspected one site was being over-billed but no one had time to validate every invoice. | Bill validation alert triggered on month 2, supplier issued a £6,400 credit and corrected the going-forward rate. |
| Cold storage operator, 4 sites, 18 GWh electricity | Wanted weekly consumption forecast to feed flex trading decisions. | Insights API connected to the Flex desk model, tranche cadence shifted from monthly to weekly, captured a £74k advantage over the prior strategy. |
| Food and drink manufacturer, single site, 12 GWh | Wanted to know where 14 percent of monthly consumption was disappearing between intake and finished product. | Sub-metering on three production lines isolated a refrigeration setpoint drift, fixed in a single shift, baseload reduced 11 percent year-on-year. |
Insights is included because you have signed your supply contract through us. We earn a disclosed broker margin on that supply, between 0.3p and 1.0p per kWh depending on volume and term, shown line-by-line on every quote and every renewal recommendation. That margin is the same whether or not you use the dashboard. No per-meter fee, no kit-rental fee, no hidden uplift on the unit rate, and no minimum contract size.
From contract sign to live dashboard is 7 to 14 working days. No install is required for half-hourly metered electricity or AMR-metered gas, we pull the data from the meter operator and supplier feeds your existing meters already produce. The four steps on your side: sign the supply contract, give us your portfolio list (or upload your latest bills), accept the data-access letters of authority, and pick your alert recipients. We handle the rest.
Our account team raises the credit note with the supplier and chases it to ledger. You do not lift a finger. The credit, the date it landed, and the reason it was issued all appear in your monthly reconciliation pack, so finance has a complete audit trail.
One monthly supplier invoice per fuel per meter, exactly as the supplier issues it. Then one monthly Purely-side reconciliation pack, free, that summarises every site, every variance, every credit issued, and the running annual position. There is no separate Insights invoice, ever, because there is nothing to bill you for.
Yes. You keep every byte of consumption data, exportable as CSV, JSON, or Excel for the life of your account plus 12 months after. If you cancel supply through us, the dashboard goes read-only at end of supply, then exports stay live for 12 months. We do not hold your data hostage and we do not need leverage on you to earn our keep.
No. Insights uses the half-hourly data the meter operator already sends to your supplier, no hardware to capitalise. If you ask for granular sub-metering on a specific load, we supply, install, and own the sensors. The hardware sits on our balance sheet, the data sits on yours, no lease and no capex. If you ever leave, the sensors come back to us at no notice cost.
99.5 percent platform uptime measured monthly, with service credits applied to your next reconciliation pack if missed. Status page is public. Live human support 8am to 6pm Mon to Fri. Out-of-hours alarm escalation: if a configured sensor breach triggers, the system pages your nominated site contact directly. Our duty engineer is paged if you have added that tier. We do not run a 24/7 helpdesk by default, and we say so plainly.
Purely Energy Ltd is a UK B-Corp certified company, registered at Companies House under number 13393163, with audited annual accounts you can pull from the public register. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001 alignment plus Cyber Essentials Plus. Elexon NHH accreditation for MOP, MAM, and DC services, so the metering pipeline is ours end-to-end.
Clip-on sub-meters are IP65, CT-rated to 600A (standard) or 1500A (heavy industrial), DIN-rail mountable, with a cellular gateway so IT is not involved. Sensors survive heat to 70 degrees C, dust, vibration, and washdowns. Installs are typically half a day on site, no plant shutdown required unless you specifically ask for a circuit isolation. You do not have to source the electrician: our installer of choice is NICEIC-registered with £10m public liability cover, and we can arrange and project-manage the install or coordinate with your in-house maintenance team if you prefer them to do the live-LV work. RAMS and competency cards are issued before any visit, either way.
No. The dashboard, monthly billing pack, and automatic bill validation ship to single-site SMEs the same as they do to a 200-meter mid-market portfolio. You get the same data, the same alerts, and the same renewal recommendations. The deeper tiers (named energy analyst, bespoke KPI dashboards) are an option for portfolios above £2m annual energy spend, not a requirement to use the platform.
Yes. The platform consolidates HH and AMR data across every supplier on your portfolio, so a single dashboard view covers your entire estate regardless of who supplies which site. This is the main reason most multi-site teams switch off the supplier portal as their primary monitoring tool.
SECR (Companies Act 2006 Section 414) mandates UK energy use plus Scope 1 and 2 emissions disclosure for qualifying entities. ESOS Phase 4, with a compliance deadline of 5 December 2027, requires audit-grade evidence covering at least 95 percent of total energy consumption. Half-hourly meter data, sub-meter data, and weather-adjusted profiles from Insights feed directly into the lead-assessor pack and shorten the audit cycle. Our carbon and compliance team produces the final ESOS report.
We pull daily AMR readings where the meter supports it, and supplier billing data otherwise. You still get year-on-year, month-on-month, and weather-adjusted views, plus monthly alerting. We will also flag the sites where moving to half-hourly settlement (often free under the MHHS rollout) would unlock meaningful additional savings.
Yes. Purely Energy operates an integrated management system aligned to ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental), and Cyber Essentials Plus. UK data residency. Role-based access with full audit trail. You own the data, and exports are available at any time at no charge.
Yes, on request. A read-only JSON API exposes consumption, alerts, and emissions for finance, BI, ESG, or BMS platform integration. Authentication is per-account API key with rate limits set per use case. CSV, Excel, PDF, and SFTP exports are also available for systems that prefer file drops.
Yes. Full contract support is included for every customer for the life of the agreement. That covers bill validation, query handling, supplier escalations, change-of-tenancy events, and renewal-timing recommendations. We are not a one-and-done broker.
Question not covered? Call us on 0161 521 3400 or request a quote and we will answer it during the discovery call.
Purely Flex trading desk
Insights data feeds the consumption forecast that drives Flex tranche timing.
Fixed energy contracts
Insights ships free on every fixed-supply contract, regardless of term.
SECR and ESOS submission packs
Insights exports plug straight into our SECR and ESOS submission service.
Demand flexibility revenue stacking
Capacity Market, DFS, and DNO flex all need the baseline data Insights produces.
MOP, MAM, and DC services
We hold Elexon NHH accreditation, so the data acquisition pipeline is ours end-to-end.
REGO and GOO backed Green Energy
Scope 2 market-based zero only counts when Insights holds the certificate evidence.
Live UK wholesale prices
Match the prices on screen to your half-hourly profile in Purely Insights.
Out-of-contract rate comparison
Renewal-window alerts in Insights stop the out-of-contract rate from ever applying.
Get a quote with Insights included
Insights activates on day one of supply, no separate sign-up.
Account team workflow
You do not chase suppliers. We do, and the credit lands in your ledger.
When the platform flags an overcharge, our account team raises the credit note with the supplier and chases it to ledger. You do not lift a finger. The credit, the date it landed, and the reason it was issued all appear in your monthly reconciliation pack, so finance has a complete audit trail.
One monthly supplier invoice per fuel per meter (their standard), one monthly Purely-side reconciliation pack (free), summarising every site, every variance, every credit issued. No new invoice for the platform itself, ever.
The differences that show up in the data, the bill, and the board pack.
The same trading desk that prices your contract reads your Insights data. Tighter consumption forecasts mean a tighter Flex tranche cadence and a smaller risk premium baked into a fixed price. The data quality directly improves what we can quote.
Any controllable load already in Insights can be registered into the Capacity Market, the NESO Demand Flexibility Service, and the local DNO flex platforms. Insights provides the baseline and dispatch verification. See the demand flexibility platform for the four-stream revenue stack on the same MWh.
Every flagged anomaly, every BMS reset, every contract renewal carries a measured before-and-after in Insights. The savings get verified against weather-adjusted baselines, not against a single-month snapshot, so the number on the board pack survives audit.
Standalone monitoring platforms charge £15 to £80 per meter per month, gating the better tiers behind portfolio size. Insights ships at zero per-meter cost on every Purely Energy supply contract, so a single-meter SME sees the same dashboard a 200-meter mid-market portfolio does.
Hardware streams readings, software turns readings into decisions, people act on what the data says. All three are included.
Your existing half-hourly and AMR meters do the heavy lifting. Where additional visibility matters (production lines, refrigeration banks, EV charging banks, sub-tenant attribution), clip-on or wireless sub-meters at circuit level stream into the same dashboard. No invasive install, no downtime.
A live SaaS dashboard ingests every reading, runs the anomaly rules, holds the historical archive, and produces the exports. Role-based access means the FD sees cost, facilities sees kWh, and sustainability sees kgCO2e, all from one record. Read-only JSON API for finance, BI, ESG, or BMS integration. See the technology stack behind Insights for the half-hourly ingestion and anomaly detection pipeline we built in-house.
Your named account contact at Purely Energy reviews the dashboard alongside you on a regular cadence, flags the trends, and connects the data to procurement and renewal decisions. The platform earns its keep when someone acts on what it shows, and we make sure someone does.
The six metrics every multi-site operator should track in real time. Industry typical ranges, not Purely-specific outcomes.
| Metric | What it means | What good looks like |
|---|---|---|
| kWh per m² floor area | Annual consumption normalised to building footprint. The first benchmark to set when a portfolio has mixed site sizes. | Industry typical: office 150 to 250 kWh/m², retail 250 to 450, warehouse 90 to 160. Lower is better, weather-adjust before comparing. |
| kWh per opening hour | Strips out shift patterns and trading hours so a 24/7 site can be compared to a 9-to-5 site fairly. | Track the rolling 13-week average. A 10 percent jump month-on-month at constant trading hours is the threshold to investigate. |
| Baseload as percentage of total kWh | Overnight or out-of-hours minimum demand divided by total. The single highest-leverage metric for most portfolios. | Office and school: typically 15 to 25 percent. Anything above 35 percent is usually a BMS schedule or always-on plant fault. |
| p/kWh effective unit rate trend | Bill-derived effective unit rate per period, including non-commodity costs, plotted month-on-month against your contracted rate. | Flat or down inside the contract. A rising trend at constant consumption indicates a bill error or a non-commodity-cost step up. |
| Peak-load avoidance £ per period | Cost saved by shifting load out of DUoS red bands and the Capacity Market peak window. | Sites running flexible plant in red bands: shifting 5 to 15 percent of peak-window kWh is normal once the data is visible. |
| Non-commodity costs (NCC) percentage of bill | NCC charges divided by total bill. Tracks the policy and network charge component independently of wholesale. | Typically 50 to 65 percent of an electricity bill in 2026. A jump indicates an NCC reset, not a wholesale market move. |
Ranges are industry-typical benchmarks for context. Your portfolio targets are set against weather-adjusted baselines in Insights once 13 weeks of data have been ingested.
Same platform, six common shapes of customer.
10 GWh+ per year, multi-site portfolios. Feeds Flex trading, NCC modelling, and the ESOS Phase 4 evidence pack.
2 to 50 sites, consolidated reporting across suppliers, weekend baseload alerting, SECR-ready exports.
Sub-metering on production lines and refrigeration. Isolates process drift before it reaches the bill.
Term-time and weekend baseload monitoring across 3 to 30+ schools. DfE sustainability ready.
Portfolio benchmarking across stores, hotels, or branches. One dashboard regardless of supplier.
Process-level visibility plus cold storage flex potential. Half-hourly data feeds DFS and DNO flex revenue.
Insights produces the evidence, Purely Energy holds the accreditations that back it.
SECR
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting under the Companies Act 2006 Section 414. UK energy use, Scope 1 and 2 emissions, intensity ratio.
ESOS Phase 4
Compliance deadline 5 December 2027. 95 percent significant-energy-use coverage. Lead-assessor pack produced from Insights data.
ISO 50001 alignment
Energy management system data: baselines, energy performance indicators, monitoring plan. Insights covers the data layer.
B-Corp certified
Highest social and environmental performance standards, B-Corp certified in June 2025 with a verified score of 87.6 against the 80-point bar. Brand-owned trust signal.
ISO 9001, 14001, 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
Integrated management system covering quality, environment, information security, and UK cyber baseline.
Elexon NHH accreditation
MOP, MAM, and DC services held under Elexon NHH qualification. The data acquisition pipeline is ours end-to-end.
Real Living Wage Employer
Accredited by the Living Wage Foundation. Real people behind the platform, paid fairly.
Live human support, on the phone or email, 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday UK business hours. Out-of-hours alarm escalation: if a configured sensor breach triggers, the system pages your nominated site contact directly. Our duty engineer is paged if you have added that tier.
If we miss the 99.5 percent uptime SLA in a calendar month, the supply-side broker margin for the affected month is rebated as a pence-per-kWh credit on the following month's supplier invoice, so the rebate lands directly against the line on the bill it relates to. No separate credit note to chase, no Insights invoice to net off.
We do not run a 24/7 helpdesk by default. Out-of-hours, alarms route directly to your site contact. We say so plainly so there are no surprises at 2am.
If you cancel supply through us, the dashboard goes read-only at end of supply, then exports stay live for 12 months. You keep every byte of consumption data, exportable as CSV, JSON, or Excel for the life of your account plus 12 months. We do not hold your data hostage.
Insolvency or change of control on the Purely Energy side: your Letter of Authority and your direct supplier relationship stay yours. Your historical data exports stay live for 12 months. Supply continues automatically with your existing contracted supplier, on the contracted rate, unchanged.
Sub-metering sensors (where you have asked for them) are ours, not yours. If you leave, we collect them at no notice cost.
Standalone monitoring platforms in the UK typically charge between £15 and £80 per meter per month, plus setup and hardware. For a 20-meter portfolio that is £3,600 to £19,200 a year before carbon-reporting add-ons. Purely Insights is included with every Purely Energy supply contract at no per-meter cost, regardless of portfolio size. SME single-meter customers get the same platform as a 200-meter mid-market portfolio.
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Read case studyGood Taste Bakery saves £67,625 on energy bills with Purely Energy
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Same-day quote for SME, 48-hour turnaround for mid-market and I&C portfolios. Every quote shows wholesale, non-commodity, supplier margin, and Purely margin separately.
Supporting services
Sit alongside any product. Layer these in when the underlying contract isn't enough on its own.
Service
Half-hourly monitoring, MOP/MAM/DC services, smart meter rollout, and anomaly detection. See exactly where your energy goes.
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Service
Tranche-based wholesale purchasing, risk management, and market intelligence. Dedicated trading desk for UK businesses spending £500k+ on energy.
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Service
SECR, ESOS Phase 4, EU ETS / UK ETS reporting, and B-Corp evidence packs. Turn your consumption data into audited compliance disclosures.
Read about Carbon Compliance
