Many businesses, however big or small, are often unaware of ,or ignore, easy ways of saving energy, focusing on making profits when so much can be wiped away by not taking simple precautions to cut costs. Business advisors to small and medium-sized companies from all over Britain at the Business Hypotheticals workshop at the Mayfair Intercontinental Hotel, London, on 10 September, heard just how easy it is for many companies to make energy savings of 10%, but that so many, through ignorance or sloppiness fail to do so.