Managing the details so you don’t have to
Pulse, our energy brokerage service, created POD. This award-winning energy management portal links directly to your energy meters. You get real-time reporting on usage and progress towards Carbon Neutral goals. It’s fast, automated, paperless – and ideal for complex and distributed sites.

POD is your all-in-one solution for bills, contracts and documentation. A bill validation tool. A document library for bills, contracts, rates. With energy usage reporting and energy budgeting tools. Everything at your fingertips.
Provides full visibility for all your latest energy bills, especially useful if you have multiple suppliers.
Online storage for invoices, contracts, and historical documentation.
Real time consumption reports at your fingertips, with real time data from your energy meters.

Optimise your consumption with real-time reporting and usage alerts
Ever-changing commodity prices. Governments continually adjusting taxes and levies. With these challenges, no wonder it’s hard to accurately forecast energy consumption costs. That’s why POD gives you a powerful budgeting tool. Combine this with real-time usage insights, and you can react and adjust long-term strategies on the fly.
- Link your energy meters to POD for in-depth usage trends over time so you can reduce consumption.
- Usage is time-stamped to identify optimisation opportunities, for example overnight closedown routines at your sites.
- Email alerts can be set as % tolerances, so you instantly know when consumption patterns change.
Plotting your progress to Carbon Net Zero
Gain strategic support and resources for transitioning to Net Zero. POD gives you the data you need to establish your current baseline. From there, it’s a case of identifying where to start optimising your usage patterns. The resulting reports can be used to support your communications with stakeholders, regulators and other parties.
- ‘Net Zero’ feature automatically updates your consumption using inputs from sources such as fleet mileage.
- Gain real-time visibility for generating realistic targets towards achieving Zero Carbon emissions.
- Energy consultancy service to identify reduction areas such as green energy procurement, onsite generation, EV charge points.
Keeping on top of your energy account
Multiple IT systems, faulty meters, human billing errors. The reasons for suppliers’ incorrect invoicing are many. However, when you also have many sites to manage, it’s a huge challenge to find and prove errors. Unless you can deploy an Automated Bill Validation function.
- Automated Bill Validation helps check 65+ different variables that can affect supplier invoices.
- Alongside the technology, our energy consultants work to validate your bills.
- Recovery is handled by our team of energy invoice experts, with £2million+ already recovered on behalf of customers.
FAQs
Net Zero means there is zero difference between the amount of greenhouse gas that’s produced, and the amount removed from the atmosphere. The ultimate goal is about reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
POD offers a suite of on-demand tools. These include access to bills, contracts, MOP and AMR documents, consumption reports, KVA analysis, budgeting tools, DUoS charges support, plus much more.
Pulse Online Database. Built by energy broker Pulse, POD gives you transparent reporting to improve efficiencies across finance, facilities and sustainability teams.
The RO is a government-led initiative, obliging electricity suppliers to source a proportion of their supply from renewable energy sources.
Over the years we’ve encountered many reasons for errors. Sometimes it’s down to new IT systems and issues with implementation and integration. It can be down to older meters which have degraded or developed faults. There’s also the risk of human error, particularly when processing billing for large organisations.