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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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

Blended against stand-alone

Why one blended PPA beats a single technology.

A stand-alone PPA prices one technology against part of your demand. A blended Saber commercial PPA is designed around the whole profile and delivered under one contract.

STAND-ALONE PPA AGAINST BLENDED · SABER COMMERCIAL PPA

Consideration	Stand-alone PPA	Saber blended PPA
Site demand	Sized to one technology’s output, usually the daylight hours for Solar PV.	Sized to the half-hourly profile: shifts, overnight thermal load and the evening peak.
Rate	Below the grid only on the share one technology generates. The rest is bought at the grid price.	One contracted rate, below the grid, across most of the consumption profile.
Site remediation	Roof repairs, asbestos removal or rewiring usually need separate capital approval first.	Remediation can be folded into the PPA and absorbed into the rate, not raised as a separate budget line.
Estate coverage	Site by site, often with different providers and contract terms.	One master framework across the estate, individual site PPAs on consistent terms, a single point of accountability.
Decarbonisation pathway	Addresses electricity only, leaving heat and the evening load untouched.	Covers heat and power together, with Hydrogen-ready CHP specified for the transition and a blend that can evolve over the term.
Grid resilience	Still exposed to grid outages, and to the DNO queue for any growth.	Behind-the-meter generation carries critical load, with island mode where the design supports it.
Design	A standard product, sized to the roof or land available.	Designed around your half-hourly data and your dominant commercial driver.

Site demand: Stand-alone PPASized to one technology’s output, usually the daylight hours for Solar PV.; Saber blended PPASized to the half-hourly profile: shifts, overnight thermal load and the evening peak.
Rate: Stand-alone PPABelow the grid only on the share one technology generates. The rest is bought at the grid price.; Saber blended PPAOne contracted rate, below the grid, across most of the consumption profile.
Site remediation: Stand-alone PPARoof repairs, asbestos removal or rewiring usually need separate capital approval first.; Saber blended PPARemediation can be folded into the PPA and absorbed into the rate, not raised as a separate budget line.
Estate coverage: Stand-alone PPASite by site, often with different providers and contract terms.; Saber blended PPAOne master framework across the estate, individual site PPAs on consistent terms, a single point of accountability.
Decarbonisation pathway: Stand-alone PPAAddresses electricity only, leaving heat and the evening load untouched.; Saber blended PPACovers heat and power together, with Hydrogen-ready CHP specified for the transition and a blend that can evolve over the term.
Grid resilience: Stand-alone PPAStill exposed to grid outages, and to the DNO queue for any growth.; Saber blended PPABehind-the-meter generation carries critical load, with island mode where the design supports it.
Design: Stand-alone PPAA standard product, sized to the roof or land available.; Saber blended PPADesigned around your half-hourly data and your dominant commercial driver.

Indicative. Whether a blend or a single technology is right follows modelling of your half-hourly data.

Delivered

A blended PPA, generating at Deepdale.

A named, operational site, ahead of the programmes in development below. Generation and savings are Saber estimates over the PPA term.

Sport and leisure · Solar PV and Hydrogen-ready CHP

Preston North End FC: 80% of Deepdale’s electricity now generated on site.

Deepdale has hosted football for more than 150 years. Facing rising energy costs and an ageing diesel backup generator that no longer met league requirements, the club needed new energy infrastructure without taking capital away from football. Saber designed a 120 kW Solar PV array and a 180 kW Hydrogen-ready CHP engine, funded under a single 15-year PPA with zero capital outlay. MJ Quinn installed the Solar PV from January 2026 and 2G Energy’s engine followed in February; both were commissioned in the spring and have run together since June 2026. The engine replaces the diesel generator entirely, and together the two systems generate about 1.2 GWh a year. A second phase, folding re-roofing into the same agreement, is under discussion.

80%

Of annual electricity generated on site

£84k

Estimated saving in year one

£1.56m

Estimated saving over the 15-year term

Read the case study

Saber’s Solar PV array on the Deepdale stadium roof, and the Hydrogen-ready CHP engine being moved into place

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.

Scope	Motorway service sites, single commercial framework
Timeline	Two months for the portfolio assessment
Status	Indicative proposal work
Indicative blend	Solar 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.

Scope	Bridge to Grid, 100 MWe modular Hydrogen-ready CHP
Timeline	10 year indicative PPA term
Status	In development
Indicative blend	Hydrogen-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. Saber leads planning and grid work, then SRE Capital funds and owns the assets and carries the delivery and operating risk for the full PPA term, 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.

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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