Do operators with workshops and depots in more than one region treat electricity as a national average, or check each site?
I ask because the same deal is not always the same bill. When I look at one supplier’s current one-year fixed acquisition prices as at 6 November 2026, an 80,000 kWh site costs about £24,576 a year in Southern and about £27,443 in Merseyside and North Wales, before VAT and CCL. That is roughly a 12% gap for the same consumption and the same contract type.
For a haulage business, that gap lands on top of fuel, wages, insurance and maintenance. A depot in one distribution area can be paying thousands more a year than a sister site elsewhere, even when both are on a fixed deal. Operators who roll every site into one national assumption can miss that difference until renewal, by which time the higher region has already carried the load.
The practical habit that helps is simple. Compare each site against its own distribution area, not against a UK average, and do it before you renew. The numbers above are a snapshot from one supplier on one day; prices move, so the exact gap will shift. The pattern is what matters: region still changes the cost of powering a workshop, a cold store or a charging bay.
If your fleet already runs tight on margins, that 12% is worth finding on paper before it shows up in the monthly bill.
Andy Hunter, director, Evolve Energy Green Solutions
