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For over four decades, Elcomponent has supplied advanced metering systems to businesses across the UK. These systems form part of a wider ecosystem that includes energy monitoring devices, submetering services, and Energy Pro—the company’s cloud-based energy management platform. Together, they give building owners and energy managers the visibility they need to cut waste, reduce carbon output, and improve efficiency.

What a Complete Metering System Includes

A metering system is not a single product but a carefully configured network. It typically includes:

• Main meters for incoming supplies
• Submeters for departments, tenants, or specific plant equipment
• Data loggers such as Elcomponent’s PowerPack Pro
• Communication modules for data transfer via Ethernet, GSM, or LoRaWAN
• Energy monitoring software to analyse and report performance

Each element has a distinct role. Submeters capture granular consumption data, loggers store and transmit it, and cloud-based dashboards interpret the information for actionable insight.

The Power of Data Visibility

The old saying “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” has never been truer. A robust metering system allows energy professionals to:

• Track energy consumption in real time
• Identify anomalies or leaks early
• Allocate costs accurately across departments
• Support ESG reporting and compliance with SECR or ISO 50001
• Benchmark performance and track ROI on energy-saving initiatives

For multi-site organisations, this visibility extends across the entire portfolio—transforming isolated data points into a single view of consumption and cost.

Integration with Energy Monitoring Solutions

Elcomponent’s Energy Pro platform transforms raw data into insight. It integrates seamlessly with their metering hardware and PowerPack Pro data loggers, creating a full energy monitoring solution that’s reliable, scalable, and proven in demanding environments.

The integration enables automatic reporting, intuitive dashboards, and exception alerts. Whether managing one building or a nationwide estate, users can identify inefficiencies instantly and make informed operational decisions.

Supporting Submetering Services

Every building has unique characteristics. Elcomponent’s submetering services ensure that metering systems are designed and installed to capture the right data in the right places. From electrical distribution boards to individual water submeters, every circuit and utility feed can be tracked. This accuracy makes it possible to implement tenant billing, allocate energy fairly, and promote accountability throughout an organisation.

Compliance, Control, and Carbon Reduction

Modern compliance standards—from Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) to ESOS—demand precise data. A metering system provides the evidence needed to demonstrate reduction initiatives and ongoing performance improvement. For sustainability managers, it’s an essential step in achieving carbon-neutral goals.

By capturing and analysing consumption, businesses can uncover inefficiencies such as out-of-hours usage, equipment faults, or unnecessary baseloads. Small changes in behaviour or maintenance often lead to substantial annual savings.

Why Choose Elcomponent

Elcomponent’s long-standing reputation in energy monitoring and metering stems from more than product quality. It’s about service, technical support, and deep industry expertise. From planning and design through to commissioning and integration, their engineers ensure each system performs flawlessly.

Combined with their UK-based manufacturing and software development, Elcomponent offers a level of control and reliability unmatched in the industry.

Not all energy monitoring systems are created equal. The right system should provide accurate, real-time data, be easy to use, and adapt to your business over time.

When choosing a system, consider:

• What level of detail you need (e.g. site-wide vs equipment-level)
• Whether you need remote access or multi-site visibility
• Integration with existing systems or compliance frameworks

Long-term scalability

Elcomponent has helped thousands of UK businesses choose and implement the right solution. With our trusted hardware, LoRaWAN connectivity, and MW2 analytics platform, we deliver everything you need to take control of your energy and start saving.

Start smarter. Monitor better. Choose Elcomponent.

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Many UK businesses still rely solely on main utility meters for energy data. While useful, these meters don’t tell you where energy is going—or why your bills are rising.

Submetering System

A submetering system solves this problem by monitoring individual areas, floors, machines or departments. This enables precise tracking, cost allocation, and early detection of inefficiencies.

At Elcomponent, we design submetering solutions that fit your site layout and operational needs. Our systems are scalable, easy to install, and feed directly into our MW2 software for effortless reporting.

If you're serious about saving energy and cutting costs, a submetering system is the essential first step.

You can also explore the Energy Saving Trust for further guidance on improving building efficiency.

 

Energy use in commercial buildings can be unpredictable and inefficient. Heating, lighting, ventilation and equipment often run beyond need—costing money and increasing emissions.

Building energy management

Building energy management is the solution. With Elcomponent’s smart metering and MW2 platform, facility managers gain real-time oversight of how buildings perform. This visibility allows for fast identification of energy waste, whether it's out-of-hours use, poorly performing HVAC, or lights left on in empty zones.

Armed with real-time data, businesses can automate controls, benchmark building performance, and spot trends before they become costly. Elcomponent helps commercial landlords, universities, and corporate clients turn buildings into efficient assets—not expensive liabilities.

Guidance from CIBSE supports best practices in building energy performance.

A traditional meter gives you the big picture. A submetering system gives you the detail.

Submetering breaks your energy use down into circuits, areas, or equipment—so you know exactly what’s driving your consumption. This is essential in large buildings or multi-site businesses where usage varies significantly across operations.

Submetering systems

Elcomponent’s submetering systems work alongside your main meter, collecting detailed data and feeding it into our MW2 software for analysis. You’ll see exactly where savings can be made, where peaks occur, and where investment in efficiency will yield the best return.

Submetering also supports compliance reporting and strengthens your ESG story with data-backed evidence. It’s the foundation of an intelligent energy management strategy.

You can also consult BSI's ISO 50001 guidelines to understand how submetering aligns with recognised standards.

Understanding exactly how and where your energy is used is the first step in cutting waste. For industrial facilities, this means investing in power consumption monitoring at machine level.

With Elcomponent’s submetering technology, businesses can drill down into specific areas—HVAC, lighting, production lines—and understand which processes are energy intensive and why. Real-time monitoring helps identify faults, detect abnormal consumption, and support predictive maintenance.

MW2 Platform

Our MW2 platform turns raw consumption data into meaningful insight, showing peak loads, energy trends, and cost attribution across the facility. Whether you're running one site or many, Elcomponent’s solutions scale with your business, helping you take control of power usage and plan for long-term efficiency.

The Carbon Trust offers guidance for industrial energy efficiency, which complements the insights provided by our systems.

Reducing energy costs is no longer a ‘nice to have’—it’s a competitive necessity. The good news? Businesses in the UK can make significant savings with a few well-targeted changes.

Start by installing a reliable energy monitoring system. This allows you to see when and where energy is being used, and crucially, where it’s being wasted. Elcomponent’s submetering solutions provide granular visibility across your site, allowing you to cut waste without compromising operations.

Energy savings guidance

Other strategies include upgrading to energy-efficient lighting, reviewing heating and cooling controls, and encouraging behavioural change. All these become far more effective when backed by real-time data.

For further energy-saving guidance, businesses can refer to Energy Technology List (ETL) endorsed by the UK Government.

Let Elcomponent help you get started. With over 40 years’ experience, we provide the tools, tech and guidance needed to turn energy waste into business value.

Managing energy across multiple sites is a major challenge—especially when each site has its own equipment, operations and energy profile.

Energy Management

An energy management system from Elcomponent solves this by providing a unified platform to monitor, compare and optimise usage across your entire estate. Our LoRaWAN-enabled meters and MW2 software offer scalable, wireless data capture across wide areas—perfect for logistics hubs, education campuses, and multi-branch retailers.

Users can compare sites, benchmark performance, and deploy best practices group-wide. Whether you want to track consumption, identify underperforming buildings, or meet ISO 50001 targets, Elcomponent helps connect the dots.

Refer to BEIS Net Zero Strategy to understand national context for multi-site energy efficiency efforts.

With rising energy costs, stricter regulations, and increasing pressure to meet sustainability targets, UK businesses are being forced to rethink how they manage energy. At the centre of this shift is the energy monitoring system.

An effective energy monitoring system allows businesses to track usage across sites, departments, and equipment in real time. With this visibility comes control. Companies can identify inefficiencies, benchmark performance, and prioritise investment where it matters most.

Tailored Monitoring Systems

Elcomponent delivers tailored monitoring systems to fit any business size or structure. From manufacturing plants to university campuses, our systems are scalable, accurate and compliant with UK reporting schemes like SECR and ESOS. Pairing our hardware with MW2 software gives businesses the insight needed to make smarter decisions—saving energy, reducing costs, and supporting ESG performance.

To explore more about how submetering supports ISO frameworks, visit our Sub-Metering Systems page.