World Kinect: Save time, money and energy - Autumna

We’ve mentioned our Go Green initiative a few times since we launched it last summer, so you might already be familiar with its aim of helping care homes reduce their carbon footprint and lower their energy costs. With summer in sight, now’s an excellent time to start thinking about your strategies for going a little greener and finding a better energy deal.

To help with this, we thought we’d quickly reintroduce World Kinect. This is the expert energy brokerage and services team we’ve chosen to partner with to give support to businesses like yours. We think World Kinect’s input could really make a difference in reducing your energy consumption and costs, not to mention helping you to achieve any Go Green targets you may have in place.

You may not have heard of World Kinect before, but they’re certainly not new to the energy sector. In fact, it’s a company that’s been steadily growing its worldwide reputation for almost 40 years. Today, World Kinect has an impressive track record and boasts more than 5,000 employees and 160,000 customers globally, as well as managing an astonishing 219 TWh of energy.

World Kinect is listed in the Fortune 100 in the USA, while here in the UK the company is an accredited member of Utilities Intermediary Association: an official mark of integrity. Coupled with its expertise and great range of services, it’s this kind of stature that made us choose World Kinect as a trusted partner to work alongside.

How does this help your care business?

One of World Kinect’s key areas of expertise is energy brokerage. It means the team there has the knowledge, resources and contacts to identify the perfect suppliers and tariffs to match the very specific needs of individual businesses like yours, both for gas and electricity. In fact, through its brokerage service, World Kinect can help care home businesses save significant time and money as well as simplify their everyday admin.

You can read about it in more detail in our blog: Care homes can save time and energy with an energy broker.

World Kinect also provides useful advice and information aimed at helping businesses reduce their actual energy consumption. From auditing usage and setting up data monitoring, to making practical recommendations around everyday efficiency and sustainability, the team here will share their expertise with you and your team.

Our handy blog covers this: Improve your care home’s energy efficiency with simple changes.

Just as with your gas and electricity, the specialists at World Kinect can also help you monitor and understand your usage of water, then switch to a better supplier – and a cheaper deal – when they find one. The water market was deregulated six years ago in England and 15 years ago in Scotland, and while many businesses themselves don’t realise it, experts estimate that there are big savings to be made by switching from default suppliers.

We’ve written in more detail about water brokerage: How Can Care Homes Save Water and Reduce Costs? And for more savings on your water bills, read this blog.

Why World Kinect?

This all sounds great, but you probably need to know about some of the particular benefits that come with enlisting the help of World Kinect. What is it that makes its team and their services special?

Face-to-face contact

World Kinect is a business proudly built on relationships, so its brokers will come to you in person and take the time to really understand the ins and outs of your business, including its unique everyday operations and long-term goals.

Saving time, not just energy

World Kinect’s brokers understand that their job isn’t just about reducing utility energy consumption; it’s about reducing the energy and time that individual staff spend on managing those utilities. That’s why World Kinect brokers focus on providing solutions that reduce workloads, minimise risk and streamline entire energy processes, from procurement to paperwork and everything in between.

Expert advice on all things energy

From how to monitor and understand your energy consumption to whether solar panels would make a sound investment for your particular care home – they’ll give you clear, honest and up-to-date advice, all as part of the service.

Pick and switch

As well as explaining the utilities market to you, your World Kinect broker will identify the suppliers and tariffs that make the most sense for your business. They’ll even factor in the different considerations that matter to you most, whether that’s price, customer service or a supplier’s green credentials. Not just that, they’ll also sort the dreaded ‘switchover’ for you, meaning one less hassle for you to worry about.

More than ever, we understand that the energy market is a confusing and daunting place for care home businesses. Knowing who to trust, how to switch and what energy prices will do next are all difficult enough challenges, without having to juggle it all as part of a hectic and stressful workload. We believe that World Kinect can help, and we certainly think that a free consultation with them is an ideal place to start.

For information about World Kinect and its services relevant to care homes, or to book one of its free no-obligation energy consultations, click below.