Personal energy usage was found to have increased by around 37 per cent, largely balancing out business savings of 6 per cent on electricity and 1 per cent on gas, on average in 2020.
Hospitality saw the largest fall in business consumption while manufacturing experienced just a 5 per cent reduction.
The research found that many businesses may have unknowingly experienced an increase in total net energy consumption, when accounting for a remote workforce.
Gazprom Energy is wholly owned by Russian oil producers Gazprom, the third largest carbon emitting firm in the world, according to a study from 2019.
The business energy supplier said it wanted organisations to educate themselves on their true total consumption by taking employees’ working-from-home consumption into account, and has launched an online Net Energy Consumption Calculator to make this process easier.
“The misconception of a drop in total business energy consumption has the potential to...