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Continuous high-density power needed ahead of multi-year DNO connection queues. Day-one capacity that transitions to peaking and resilience once grid arrives.

Hydrogen-ready CHP + Solar PV + BESS

24/7

Island-mode resilience

100 MWe

Hydrogen-ready CHP modular scoping

821 GWh

Modelled annual output (indicative)

7 to 20 yr

PPA term

The challenge

Data centres need continuous, high-density power, and they need it before the grid can deliver it. DNO connection queues now run for several years, which leaves committed capacity sitting idle while the build is ready to operate. For a load that needs redundancy configured to its uptime targets, an unserved connection date is a commercial and reputational risk, not just a schedule slip.

How Saber addresses it

Saber Bridge to Grid removes the DNO queue from the critical path. Hydrogen-ready CHP, backed by Solar PV and BESS, delivers day-one capacity under a single Power Purchase Agreement, then transitions to a peaking and resilience role once the grid connection energises. The blend runs in island mode, with redundancy configured to your uptime targets. Saber funds, owns and operates the system, so capital stays on the client side.

See the Bridge to Grid model

A day on site

What the blend does across a working day.

Site demand met by Hydrogen-ready CHP, Solar PV, BESS, with residual grid import at the shoulders. Every half-hour is metered, recorded and reported.

Solar PVHydrogen-ready CHPBESS dischargeResidual grid importTotal site demand
013,00026,00039,00052,000kW00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00Hour of dayHYDROGEN-READY CHP BASELOAD AROUND THE CLOCKday-one capacity ahead of the DNO queue
Indicative profile. Shapes derived from real anonymised half-hourly data; your figures are modelled from your own

Annual energy mix, data centres

% of annual demand | 100% generated on site

SOLAR PV3%HYDROGEN-READY CHP98%BESS8%SITE DEMAND100%ROUND-TRIP LOSSES1%
Illustrative annual energy mix, shown as a share of site demand. Every unit generated on site is supplied at the contracted PPA rate rather than the grid rate, so savings scale with the on-site share. BESS is a routing stage, not a source: battery discharge is generated earlier by Solar PV or Hydrogen-ready CHP. Round-trip efficiency assumed at 88%; the on-site share is stated net of those losses and the generation bars are gross. Island-mode operation ahead of grid energisation; once the DNO connection is live the plant transitions to a peaking and resilience role.

Outcomes

Day-one power, one PPA

Day-one power under a single PPA, independent of the DNO connection date.

Island-mode resilience

Redundancy configured to your uptime targets, by design.

Clean transition to grid

Clean transition to a peaking and resilience role once grid energises.

No capital outlay

No capital outlay. Saber funds, owns and operates the infrastructure.

Common questions

Renewable energy for data centres

Where it starts

Find out what the blend looks like for data centres.

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.