Automotive Manufacturing
The automotive industry is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. Alongside the push for electrification and the 2035 zero-emission vehicle mandate, manufacturers face rising energy costs, stricter compliance demands, and growing pressure to decarbonise operations.
At Businesswise Solutions, we understand these challenges. Whether you’re designing and prototyping, manufacturing components, or assembling vehicles, we help automotive leaders reduce energy costs, ensure compliance, and progress towards Net Zero.
Businesswise Solutions actively supports the Northern Automotive Alliance with energy and net zero services.
18% of the UK’s total emissions
The automotive sector is responsible for more than 18% of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major focus for net zero strategies.
Effective energy procurement and bureau services
Energy volatility poses a serious risk to the automotive sector, where slim margins and high production demands leave little room for error. We help automotive manufacturers take control with procurement strategies that balance flexibility, cost predictability, and long-term resilience.
Our bureau services then ensure contracts are managed effectively, invoices are validated, and opportunities for further savings are identified.
Through a strategic energy procurement approach, we helped an automotive component manufacturer achieve average monthly savings of £30,000 – enhancing cost predictability and protecting their margins in a volatile energy market.
Complete energy management
Automotive manufacturing is energy-intensive, with stamping, welding, paint shops, and assembly lines all placing heavy demand on heat and power. Rising energy costs and tightening sustainability targets mean manufacturers can’t afford inefficiencies or hidden waste in their processes.
With our Energy Management as a Service (EMaaS), you gain real-time visibility of energy use across your sites and machinery. From monitoring production lines and identifying demand spikes, to uncovering equipment inefficiencies and benchmarking performance, our solutions highlight exactly where savings can be made.
For one automotive manufacturer, we installed 42 submeters and 2 bridges on-site, allowing us to capture their energy data. With the granular data, we identified energy-saving opportunities of over £100,000, which could be invested back into the business.
Supporting the automotive industry with energy and carbon compliance
With rising scrutiny on carbon reporting and regulatory compliance, getting it right in the automotive sector isn’t just about avoiding penalties. It’s about protecting margins, accessing reliefs, and demonstrating sustainability leadership to customers, investors, and regulators.
Our compliance specialists understand the pressures the automotive industry faces, from high energy consumption to increasingly ambitious emissions targets, and ensure that all data is accurate, timely, and fully audit-ready. By taking a proactive approach, we help you unlock financial benefits through carbon relief schemes while building the robust reporting standards your stakeholders now demand.
Our compliance team are experts in:
- SECR
- CCA / CCL
- ESOS
- ESG policy
- Energy Intensive Relief
After doing a carbon tax audit for one automotive manufacturer, we identified that they were eligible for two different reliefs, one that they were already receiving and another that their previous energy consultant had missed. When we presented our findings, the manufacturer was happy for us to apply for the missed relief on their behalf and take on their exemption management going forward.