Energy 101

As a business owner, understanding your expenses is an important part of streamlining your business. By knowing what you spend on energy, you can make a few changes to your energy usage and reduce your operating costs and your business’s impact on the environment.

The planet—this great, blue orb we all inhabit—is surprisingly fragile. Sure, it’s made of durable stuff like rock, but there are other ways in which the Earth is susceptible to damage. We are all consumers by nature, and the resources we need to live– like electricity, oil, and natural gas — are limited in supply.

Maybe you’ve looked into green energy for the environment, but there’s so much more to it than that. So what is green energy’s impact on the world, apart from the environmental benefits? To answer that question, here are nine things you may not know about green energy:

Saving energy makes good business sense. Not only is conserving energy good for the environment, but it’s also good for your bank account. By implementing a few simple energy-conservation strategies you can help reduce your monthly business energy bills.

Smart businesses are always looking for ways to cut costs, and taking steps to be more energy efficient has compounding results that do exactly that.