Finding the Perfect Blend of Renewables for UK Manufacturers
A practical guide to cost certainty, resilience and credible carbon reductions through a Saber commercial Power Purchase Agreement. Fill in your details and your guide will be sent to you immediately.
A Power Purchase Agreement for UK manufacturing sites that covers the full demand curve.
Non-commodity charges now account for the majority of the total electricity cost on most manufacturing sites. Distribution costs, network charges, the Climate Change Levy. A fixed retail tariff locks in one number and leaves everything else to drift upward, year after year. When the contract renews, those charges have moved regardless.
A blended Power Purchase Agreement for UK manufacturing from Saber changes the structure. Solar PV, hydrogen-ready CHP, and battery storage under one zero-capex agreement. By generating behind the meter, the site reduces the volume of grid-imported electricity. Both the commodity cost and the non-commodity stack fall on every unit displaced.
Lower energy costs
A zero-capex Power Purchase Agreement reduces your commodity rate and your non-commodity stack together, because every unit generated behind the meter is a unit you never bought at grid prices. That saving does not reset each year. It compounds across the full term.
Zero Upfront Capex
Saber funds, designs, installs, operates, and maintains the assets under the PPA, so nothing touches your balance sheet and nothing is paid for until it is generated. You pay for metered output at a pre-agreed rate, backed by a £300m facility with Pollen Street Capital.
A carbon position your sustainability team can defend
Half-hourly settlement data backs every unit of on-site generation, which is what turns a Scope 2 reduction from a claim into something your sustainability team can actually defend. That same asset gives you a hydrogen-ready CHP pathway for Scope 1 as the fuel mix changes.
What is in the guide
This guide explains how a Power Purchase Agreement for UK manufacturing sites works in practice. The technology stack, the commercial structure, and what the delivery process looks like from first data request to commercial operation.
- Why your energy bill has two problems, not one. The non-commodity stack is the part most contracts ignore. Here is what it costs and why it keeps rising.
- How the blend actually works. Solar PV covers the daytime peak. Hydrogen-ready CHP runs overnight and captures waste heat for process use. Battery storage manages demand spikes. Each covers a different part of the demand curve.
- What you sign and what Saber is responsible for. The PPA structure in plain English. Term, tariff, indexation, maintenance, performance risk.
- The hydrogen question, answered honestly. Why hydrogen-readiness matters for a fifteen-year investment and what the technology can actually do today.
- Three worked examples. Small, medium, and large UK manufacturing sites. Transparent inputs. Sensitivity bands on gas price, PV yield, and electricity escalation.
- From data to commercial operation. What the six to nine month process looks like, and why the timeline is faster than most manufacturers expect.
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