An energy management company has announced it is relocating its office to Bristol from Cornwall with plans to double its workforce.
Best. Energy monitors and tries to reduce energy consumption costs of around 100 firms globally, including supermarket chain 7-Eleven and fast food brand KFC.
Founded in 2006, the company said it had now outgrown its first commercial space in St Austell, and the move to the Bristol Business Park in Stoke Gifford, would allow it to expand its research and development facilities.
The business, which currently employs 60 staff, said it had experienced “significant growth” as a result of firms driving to reduce the carbon emissions to net zero rising energy costs, which it said was “substantially” impacting on its commercial customers.
Best. Energy said it had chosen Bristol for its new base due to the city’s emergence as an “up-and-coming” tech hub, and its reputation for sustainability. Bristol was previously the first UK city to be named European Green Capital by the European Commission in 2015.
Troy Wrigley, chief executive of Best. Energy, said: “We are tremendously excited about our move to Bristol and to find ourselves in a community of like-minded green and innovative businesses.
"The next step of Best. Energy’s evolution requires finding the best and brightest talent to double our headcount in 2022.
“I love it when our people tell me they wake up thinking ‘I’m going to do some good today’ - that’s the passion that we have. To help businesses make real and substantial savings and to reduce the use of carbon, leading to a more sustainable future for us all.”
Mr Wrigley founded Best. Energy with childhood friends Ben Willcocks and Tim McMahon, following his father Ian into the industry, who previously set up boiler management company FuelBoss, and energy saving solutions business Somar International.
The business initially worked with companies in the food retail sector but has now begun offering measurement equipment and technology to all energy intensive companies.
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