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How we work

Energy solutions designed to deliver from day one.

Saber assesses, designs, funds, delivers and operates blended on-site generation under a single Power Purchase Agreement. The same process whether it is one facility or a national estate.

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The process, stage by stage

From data to live operations.

The same structured process for every project, scaled from a single facility to a national estate. Each stage has clear accountability and a structured output.

  1. 1

    Feasibility

    Half-hourly data analysis and technical screening. Indicative blend, savings range and delivery timeline returned within one to two weeks. No commitment at this stage.

  2. 2

    Design and commercial terms

    Site walks, detailed engineering, blend optimisation, PPA terms shaped around the dominant commercial driver. Outputs sized for finance committee review and stakeholder sign-off.

  3. 3

    Grid and permitting

    DNO liaison, planning, private-wire design. Where DNO timelines threaten the schedule, Saber Bridge to Grid removes the queue from the critical path with day-one CHP-led power.

  4. 4

    Financing and contracts

    Funding drawn against the £300m senior secured facility from Pollen Street Capital. PPA executed with SRE Capital, the dedicated long-term asset ownership vehicle. Capital preserved on the client side.

  5. 5

    Delivery and commissioning

    Specialist partners coordinated through the platform. Each site progresses through defined stages with clear accountability. Sites come online on the operator programme, not the DNO queue.

  6. 6

    Operate and optimise

    24/7 telemetry, automated billing on metered output, Scope 1 and 2 reporting. The blend evolves over the term as the site roadmap progresses and grid carbon intensity changes.

The thesis

We design around your demand, not a product list.

Every Saber design starts with verified half-hourly data, your site infrastructure, your thermal profile, and the dominant commercial driver. The blend, the contract terms and the deployment programme all flex to fit your estate, not the other way around.

Below-grid pricing on the energy we generate. Defensible Scope 1 and 2 reduction backed by metered output. No capital outlay. Capital preserved, risk transferred.

Demand-led, not technology-led

What the blend looks like for your sector.

Pick a sector to see a typical half-hourly demand profile and the blend Saber would model against it.

Manufacturing weekday profile

48 HH periods | kW demand

Solar PVHydrogen-ready CHPBESS dischargeResidual grid importTotal site demand
05001,0001,5002,000kW00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00Hour of dayMORNING PEAK SHAVEDHydrogen-ready CHP carries the rampSOLAR PV PEAKSwith productionEVENING PEAK SHAVEDwhen tariffs are highest
Indicative profiles and outcomes. Shapes derived from real anonymised half-hourly data; your figures are modelled from your own.
Typical blend
Solar PV + Hydrogen-ready CHP + BESS
Indicative outcome
£700k to £950k a year across a mid-market multi-site estate
Self-consumption
Up to 85% of generation used on site

Share 12 months of half-hourly data and a basic site pack. Saber returns an indicative blend, a savings range and a delivery timeline within one to two weeks.

Start with your data

Concepts

Engagements, anonymised.

What deployment at scale looks like across transport network services and hyperscale data centres. All figures indicative and modelled against site-specific half-hourly data.

ENGAGEMENT 01 · TRANSPORT NETWORK SERVICES

A multi-site estate modelled as a single programme

One PPA across an estate that was previously procured site by site. The commercial pattern recognises the network economics, not just the site economics.

ScopeMotorway service sites, single commercial framework
TimelineTwo months for the portfolio assessment
StatusIndicative proposal work
Indicative blendSolar PV + BESS with EV charging ramp under one PPA

60+

Sites modelled

1 to 2 wks

Single-site feasibility

2 mo

Portfolio assessment

Anonymised. Modelled against actual half-hourly data.

ENGAGEMENT 02 · HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRE

100 MWe Hydrogen-ready CHP modular scoping

Operational from day one, with a clean transition plan when the grid arrives. Bridge to Grid is the structural answer to the DNO queue.

ScopeBridge to Grid, 100 MWe modular Hydrogen-ready CHP
Timeline10 year indicative PPA term
StatusIn development
Indicative blendHydrogen-ready CHP led, Island mode grid-transition plan

100 MWe

CHP modular plant

821 GWh

Modelled annual output

10 yr

Indicative PPA term

Anonymised. Modelled against developer's commercial requirements

Why Saber

Five things separate Saber from the field.

Distributed energy is busy. The differentiators below are what hold up under finance committee scrutiny.

  • Owns the infrastructure

    Not a consultancy, not a developer transacting projects. SRE Capital funds and owns the assets and carries the planning, grid and delivery risk through to operational maintenance, with delivery coordinated through specialist partners.

  • £300m senior secured facility

    Committed by Pollen Street Capital. Deployment is funded at platform level, not conditional on raising for each project. Sites move on site readiness, not fundraising cadence.

  • Demand-led, half-hourly first

    Assets sized against verified consumption data, not generic profiles or speculative output. 13.3m HH data points already under management.

  • Private-wire, behind-the-meter, island-mode

    Generation sits behind the meter and supplies the site directly. Removes grid export dependency and the DNO queue from the critical path. Delivery in months, not years.

  • One integrated platform

    Origination, deployment, operations, billing and ESG reporting in a single record. The Saber Intelligence Platform is the operating layer behind every contract.

The commercial frame

Unit rate is the wrong comparison.

Unit rate compares one number and ignores the bill. A typical UK industrial energy bill is roughly 45% commodity and 55% non-commodity, and a solar-only design leaves most of that untouched. In the published worked example, a modelled 14 GWh a year manufacturing site displaces around 80% of grid-imported volume with a blended design: commodity falls from about 45% of the bill to about 9%, and network charges from 18% to about 4%. Only the residual remains exposed to grid volatility, and that residual is the variable a finance director can actually manage. Figures are modelled and indicative, against site-specific half-hourly data.

0%13%25%38%50%Share of the bill today45%Commodity, todayWholesale energy, 45% of the bill9%Commodity, with the blendDown to 9% of the bill18%Network (DUoS), todayDistribution charges, 18% of the bill4%Network (DUoS), with the blendDown to 4% of the billCommodity down 36 points, network down 14
Illustrative: derived from the published worked example

Modelled on a 14 GWh per year manufacturing site. Around 80% of grid-imported volume is displaced, so the wholesale and distribution lines shrink together; levies and standing charges continue as before.

Around 80% of grid-imported volume displaced

Where it starts

From a passive energy user to a self-supplied estate.

Whether you are driven by cost, by your decarbonisation commitment, or by both, it starts with one conversation about your energy profile. One contract from survey to billing. Capital preserved, risk transferred.

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