Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Hawley Energy is an independent consultancy. Recommendations are based on the evidence from your buildings and the commercial case in front of you, not on a supplier, vendor, manufacturer, or lender sales target.

The team brings practical experience across building services, energy management, and sustainability. Hawley Energy works with CIBSE-accredited professionals and an ESOS Lead Assessor, giving you technical confidence alongside a clear commercial view.

An energy consultant starts with how your buildings operate: the data, the waste, the risks, and the improvements that could make a difference. An energy broker usually focuses on arranging an energy supply contract or another specific commercial product. Hawley Energy can help you understand the wider decision before you commit to one route.

The work can include energy efficiency audits, monitoring and data, invoice and performance review, compliance including ESOS, project design and delivery, and decarbonisation planning. The right starting point depends on the problem your organisation needs to solve first.

We bring together bills, meter data, baselines, operating patterns, and what is happening on site. That helps reveal unusual consumption, building drift, avoidable waste, billing issues, and places where the energy strategy no longer matches the way the building is being used.

Both are possible. Hawley Energy can advise on the right improvement, then help move it through design, approvals, procurement, delivery, and post-completion verification. You can start with a focused question and connect the next step when the evidence supports it.

Published Hawley Energy results include indicative consumption reductions in the range of 10-30%, annual savings of £500k+ across suitable estates, and paybacks under two years for some projects. These are useful reference ranges, not guarantees: the outcome depends on the building, its starting point, how it operates, the quality of its data, and the scope of the work.

The assessment follows the building rather than a fixed technology list. It can include solar, heat pumps, building management systems (BMS), and metering, alongside the operational and fabric changes that determine whether an investment will perform in practice.

We compare the evidence, the likely impact, the practical constraints, and the commercial case. That creates a sequence your team can defend, with the quickest useful action separated from the work that needs more design, funding, or operational preparation.

PowerPacks is Hawley Energy’s route for exploring finance for worthwhile energy efficiency and decarbonisation projects. It is intended to help a sound project move forward when waiting for a large upfront capital budget would keep the waste running.

We start by understanding the project, the building, and the improvement it is expected to create. We then explore a suitable commercial structure, such as rental or hire-purchase, alongside the project scope and delivery route. The aim is to give you a clearer basis for deciding whether to proceed.

With hire-purchase, the equipment is owned outright after the final payment. With rental, ownership remains with the financier during the rental arrangement, with an option to buy at the end of the term.

A broker typically focuses on finding and arranging a finance product. PowerPacks considers finance as part of the wider energy project: what the building needs, what the improvement could achieve, how it will be delivered, and which commercial route may make sense.

Start with a conversation about your estate, energy spend, and the project you are considering. We can then understand the evidence, shape the next step, and explore whether financing is a sensible route for that particular building and business case.