Solving the grid queue
Day-one power, ahead of the DNO queue.
Saber Bridge to Grid delivers private-wire power under a Power Purchase Agreement, sized to your day-one demand. Hydrogen-ready CHP led, behind the meter, with no capital outlay. The asset transitions to a peaking, resilience or heat-led role once the grid is energised, all under one contract.
Why this exists
The connection queue is now the constraint on growth.
DNO connection timelines now stretch into multi-year horizons. For sites that need power to grow, the queue, not the build, sits on the critical path. Export constraints compound the problem, ruling out solar-only and export-led models in large parts of the country.
The cost of waiting is rarely an energy line item. It is delayed revenue, stalled expansion and capital committed to assets that cannot yet operate. For a data centre tenant, a manufacturing growth site, a logistics expansion or a motorway services operator rolling out EV charging, that delay is measured in years.
Grid reinforcement is a multi-year programme. Bridge to Grid removes it from the critical path while that programme catches up.
Why it exists
First power in months. Full capacity years ahead of the queue.
How Bridge to Grid works
Online on your programme, not the DNO queue's.
Hydrogen-ready CHP led private-wire power, delivered under a single PPA and sized to your day-one demand. Saber funds, owns and operates the infrastructure for the full term. Site comes online on the operator's programme, not the DNO queue's.
Size to day-one demand
Half-hourly demand analysis sets the load the site needs from day one. Hydrogen-ready CHP, modular and scalable, is sized against that profile, blended with BESS for resilience and Solar PV where roof or land supports it.
Deliver private-wire power
Generation sits behind the meter and supplies the site directly, in months rather than years. Funded, owned and operated by Saber under one Saber commercial PPA. Zero capital outlay, risk transferred for the full term.
Transition when the grid arrives
Once the DNO connection is energised, the asset transitions to a peaking, resilience or heat-led role. The same hydrogen-ready engines move to standby and grid-firming duty, all under the original contract.
100 MWe
Hydrogen-ready CHP modular
Indicative. Deployable in 49.9 MWe phases under the local consenting route
821 GWh
Modelled annual output
Against the scoping profile, at 96% average plant availability
10 yr
Indicative PPA term
Contracted and CPI-indexed
24/7
Island-mode resilience
Redundancy configured to your uptime targets
The engine platform
Sized to the site, not the site to the plant.
The hydrogen-ready CHP engine range runs from 20 kWe to 4,500 kWe, modular and scalable. Engines are delivered through Saber’s close partnership with 2G Energy, with hydrogen operation already proven at industrial scale. All figures on this page are indicative and modelled against site-specific half-hourly data, with the final blend and economics subject to feasibility.
Worked example
Hyperscale data centre, day-one capacity.
A single-site scoping for a hyperscale data centre tenant, designed as the bridge while DNO capacity is delivered. All figures indicative and modelled against site-specific data, subject to feasibility.
Hyperscale data centre tenant
100 MWe of hydrogen-ready CHP modular plant
Operational from day one, with a clean transition plan when the grid arrives. Bridge to Grid is the structural answer to the DNO queue.
Approximately 821 GWh of modelled annual output under a 10-year PPA, sized to day-one demand at 96% average plant availability, with island mode configured to the facility’s uptime targets. The plant brings the facility online ahead of the DNO connection, with a clean transition path to a peaking and resilience role once grid capacity is energised. Capital preserved on the tenant side, deployment and grid risk carried by Saber.
100 MWe
Hydrogen-ready CHP modular
821 GWh
Modelled annual output
10 yr
Indicative PPA term
Who it is for
Sites where the queue is holding back the plan.
Bridge to Grid is built for demand that is locked in but cannot yet be served. Where the connection date, not the construction programme, is the thing standing in the way.
Agriculture
Electrified grain drying, cold storage, greenhouses and diversification loads arrive faster than thin rural networks can reinforce. Hydrogen-ready CHP delivers heat and power on the farm's programme, with Solar PV and Wind layered in where roof and land support them, while the connection catches up.
Learn moreManufacturing growth sites
New lines, new shifts and reshoring that need sustained heat and power before grid reinforcement lands. Hydrogen-ready CHP delivers thermal and electrical load from day one, with 96% total efficiency.
Learn moreLogistics expansion
New warehouses, depots and cold storage where the connection date sits behind the operational date. Private-wire power lets the site open on its own programme, with Solar PV layered in where the roof supports it.
Learn moreMotorway services with EV charging
The 1 to 2 MW site growing into multi-MW demand as EV charging rolls out. Bridge to Grid covers the day-one ramp under one PPA while grid reinforcement catches up across the estate.
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Commercial questions
What a buying committee asks first.
Direct answers on the transition, risk, deployment speed and the hydrogen pathway.
Where it starts
Tell us where the queue is holding you back.
Share your day-one demand and the connection date you are working against. We will return an indicative blend, output range and delivery timeline within one to two weeks, modelled against your half-hourly data and subject to feasibility. Capital preserved, risk transferred.