Agriculture
Input-cost volatility and the need for certainty. Land that supports Wind, alongside diversified income and environmental stewardship.
Wind + Hydrogen-ready CHP + Solar PVThe challenge
Agricultural businesses face volatile input costs with limited ability to pass increases through to market. Energy is a significant and growing overhead. Many operations are land-rich and electricity-intensive, which is exactly the profile where on-site generation can deliver certainty against prices the business cannot otherwise control.
How Saber addresses it
Agricultural sites often suit multiple technologies at once: open land for Wind, roof area for Solar PV, and thermal demand from processing or growing operations that Hydrogen-ready CHP can serve. Saber blends them around the site profile under one PPA. Saber works with NFU Energy as a channel partner, so growers can engage through a trusted route. Figures are indicative for sites, subject to feasibility.
A day on site
What the blend does across a working day.
Site demand met by Wind, Hydrogen-ready CHP, Solar PV, with residual grid import at the shoulders. Every half-hour is metered, recorded and reported.
Annual energy mix, agriculture
% of annual demand | 100% generated on site
Outcomes
Lower electricity cost
Meaningful reduction in electricity cost achievable from a blended design.
Annual saving
Annual saving achievable, indicative for sites subject to feasibility.
Energy self-sufficiency
Energy self-sufficiency achievable from a blended design.
Predictable energy costs
Predictable energy costs against volatile input prices.
Sector guide
Beyond the Grid: How Progressive UK Farmers Are Refreshing Their Power Supply at Zero Cost
Power Purchase Agreements explained for farms and growers, why a blended system of Solar PV, Hydrogen-ready CHP and Battery storage outperforms solar alone, and real examples from a nursery, a parish council and the English Lakes estate, alongside roof refurbishment and delivery partners.
What is inside
- Your route to a smarter energy strategy: understand, assess, act
- Demystifying Power Purchase Agreements for agriculture
- Beyond solar: why UK farmers are embracing blended energy
- Hydrogen-ready CHP for resilience and sustainability on the farm
- Case studies: Woodlark Nurseries, Claverdon community power, English Lakes
- Farm future-proofing and the farmer’s advantage
PDF, 16 pages, 1.9 MB.
Common questions
Renewable energy for agriculture
Where it starts
Find out what the blend looks like for agriculture.
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.