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Logistics

Multi-site electricity across warehouses and depots, with under-monetised roofs and a growing EV and HGV decarbonisation load.

Solar PV + BESS

The challenge

Logistics businesses operate across large, electricity-intensive estates with consistent daytime demand and significant, often under-monetised, roof area. Energy costs compound across multiple sites. A growing EV charging and HGV decarbonisation load is now arriving on top, which raises both the bill and the visibility of Scope 2 in fleet and facility reporting.

How Saber addresses it

Large, unobstructed roof areas and consistent daytime demand make logistics sites natural candidates for Solar PV, putting otherwise idle roof to work. BESS is assessed at feasibility, adding peak tariff management, backup power and a buffer for EV charging loads where the profile supports it. The blend is sized against each site and reported across the estate, giving visible Scope 2 progress for fleet and facility reporting under a single PPA.

A day on site

What the blend does across a working day.

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

Solar PVBESS dischargeResidual grid importTotal site demand
02505007501,000kW00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00Hour of dayROOF-LED GENERATIONSolar PV sized to the operating dayBESS COVERS THE EVENING PEAK
Indicative profile. Shapes derived from real anonymised half-hourly data; your figures are modelled from your own

Annual energy mix, logistics

% of annual demand | 30% generated on site

SOLAR PV31%GRID IMPORT70%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.

Outcomes

Reduced electricity costs

Reduced electricity costs across the estate.

Roofs put to work

Under-monetised roofs put to work generating on-site.

Visible Scope 2 progress

Visible Scope 2 progress for fleet and facility reporting.

EV and HGV headroom

Headroom for a growing EV charging and HGV decarbonisation load.

Common questions

Renewable energy for logistics

Where it starts

Find out what the blend looks like for logistics.

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.