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ENERGY MANAGEMENT > KVA REVIEWS
KVA Review and Capacity Optimisation
Many businesses are paying unnecessary electricity capacity charges without realising it.
Flame Energy provides professional KVA capacity review services to help organisations assess whether their agreed electricity capacity is correctly aligned with operational demand.
By reviewing your current KVA setup, businesses can often reduce avoidable costs, improve efficiency, and strengthen energy management.
What Is a kVA Capacity?
KVA, also known as kilovolts-amps, refers to the agreed electrical capacity supplied to a commercial property.
Your electricity supplier and network operator use this agreed capacity to determine part of your electricity charges, commonly referred to as capacity charges.
If your agreed capacity is too high, businesses may be overpaying for unused capacity. If it is too low, sites may risk excess capacity charges or operational disruption.
KVA Capacity Reviews for Businesses
Our KVA capacity review service helps businesses understand whether their current electricity capacity matches actual site demand.
We analyse usage patterns, maximum demand data, and operational requirements to identify whether adjustments may be beneficial.
Our KVA capacity check process can help businesses:
- Improve budgeting accuracy
- Reduce unnecessary capacity charges
- Improve electricity cost efficiency
- Identify excess capacity risks
- Support site expansion planning
Capacity Charge KVA Analysis
Commercial electricity bills can include significant costs linked to agreed supply capacity.
Flame Energy reviews historical usage data and demand trends to identify whether businesses are paying more than necessary for capacity.
For some organisations, reducing agreed KVA levels can create meaningful long term savings. For others, increasing capacity may help avoid excess demand penalties and support operational reliability.
Supporting Business Energy Management
Our KVA review services form part of a wider commercial energy management strategy.
Alongside capacity analysis, we can also support businesses with:
- Sustainability planning
- Energy procurement
- Metering solutions
- MOP contracts
- Energy monitoring
- Solar and export energy
Why Now Is the Right Time to Review Your kVA
With RIIO-3 running from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2031, network costs and standing charges are under increased pressure across the UK energy market. Ofgem has confirmed RIIO-3 as the next price control period, covering major network investment and future energy infrastructure.
For businesses, this makes it even more important to check that fixed electricity charges are aligned with real operational demand.
kVA Review Support from Flame Energy
We provide practical and transparent KVA review support for businesses across the UK. Our goal is to help organisations gain greater visibility over electricity usage, reduce avoidable costs, and ensure electrical capacity is aligned with operational requirements.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions list
kVA stands for Kilovolt-ampere. A KVA is 1000 volt-amperes (amps).
kVA analysis is to help your business to understand your kVA allowance and usage. This is to ensure that your Kva stays at the right level.
Your kVA is usually on your bill, if not you can contact your distribution network operator.
This is the level of reserved power for your site that you can use without any additional charges.
The kVA would have been agreed between site user and the distribution network operator (DNO) but the DNO officially sets it.
If usage exceeds the agreed kVA capacity amount you will receive a charge for each kVA over the capacity.
