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What a typical wholesale bakery uses and pays across the UK, from published benchmarks.
Figures are estimates from published UK benchmarks priced at 25p/kWh electricity, 7p/kWh gas and about £365 a year in standing charges. They are not quotes. See how we estimate.
Bakeries producing for supermarkets, foodservice, cafés or their own shop estate. Rack and tunnel ovens, a steam boiler, automated moulders and dividers, chilled or frozen despatch, and shift patterns that push production well beyond a single trading day.
Rack and tunnel ovens holding temperature across a full production shift, not a two hour bake
A steam boiler that fires from before the first mix to after the last wash down
Blast chilling and frozen despatch storage that runs seven days a week
Half hourly metering, capacity charges and a demand peak that can cost more than the units themselves
Typical equipment loads across bakeries, breweries and food production, with annual kWh and cost bands from published benchmarks.
| Equipment | kWh a year | Cost a year (est.) |
|---|---|---|
| Deck, rack and tunnel ovens (gas) | 30,000–300,000 kWh | £2,100–£21,000 |
| Electric convection, combi and roasting ovens | 8,000–45,000 kWh | £2,000–£11,250 |
| Provers, retarders, dough mixers and depositors | 4,000–20,000 kWh | £1,000–£5,000 |
| Refrigeration, walk-in chillers and cold stores | 10,000–90,000 kWh | £2,500–£22,500 |
| Steam boilers, coppers, stills and jacketed kettles (gas) | 20,000–350,000 kWh | £1,400–£24,500 |
| Glycol chillers, compressed air, extraction and lighting | 8,000–60,000 kWh | £2,000–£15,000 |
Get your half hourly data and find your true maximum demand. Production bakeries are routinely paying for agreed capacity they never come close to using.
Stagger oven and boiler start ups rather than firing everything at shift change. Flattening that peak can change your capacity charge as well as your unit cost.
Insulate steam and condensate lines and fix steam trap failures. A failed trap on a bakery boiler can waste thousands of pounds of gas a year on its own.
Recover oven flue heat into boiler feedwater or the hot water system. On a rack oven line the payback is usually measured in months, not years.
Review your contract twelve months before it ends. At this consumption a one penny per kWh difference on electricity is worth several thousand pounds a year.
Illustrative example
Deck ovens on from 4am with a shop out front
Ovens are most of the gas, proving and refrigeration most of the electricity, and both start before dawn.
Illustrative example, not a real customer. Figures are estimates based on published UK benchmarks. See how we estimate. See all worked examples.
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