Pinion Powerworks finances, builds, owns and operates Hybrid Energy Solutions covering CHP, solar, battery and thermal storage, on or adjacent to your site. You receive power under a at a fixed, below-market rate.
We were founded specifically to bridge the gap between surging energy demand from , , and manufacturing, and a grid that cannot keep pace. Our model removes the capital cost, the construction risk and the maintenance liability from your balance sheet entirely. And it is built around one idea: .
Grid connections for new capacity can take five years to decades. A PPA delivers generation in months.
Continuous high loads across lighting, refrigeration and EV charging. Fix the rate at scale.
The UK's largest manufacturing sector, with energy embedded in every stage. CHP serves both sides of the process at a fixed rate.
Sources: US EPA / CTCN; UK commercial solar industry data; BESS industry data; Pinion.
generates firm power and heat around the clock, but it burns fuel to do it. generates the cheapest electricity on your roof, but only in daylight. A moves energy to the half hours when it's worth most, but stores nothing unless something generates it. holds heat for a fraction of the cost of storing electricity, but needs a heat source worth storing.
Run separately, each is a compromise. Run as one system, each covers the others: solar takes the daytime load and cuts the engine's fuel burn, CHP carries the base load and the winter, the battery absorbs the peaks and the gaps, and the thermal store banks surplus heat until the site wants it. A control system dispatches whichever source is cheapest, every half hour, automatically.
You don't buy any of it. Pinion finances, owns, operates and maintains the entire system, and you buy the output at . One agreement, one monthly invoice, no capital, no maintenance liability.
A gas engine producing electricity and usable heat at up to 90% total efficiency: the firm, around-the-clock foundation the rest of the system builds on.
Read more →Once installed, sunlight is free. Roof or ground-mounted PV displaces daytime grid import at full tariff rates for 25 years or more.
Read more →Stores energy when it's cheap and releases it when it isn't, shaving peak charges, smoothing solar, and bridging grid events in milliseconds.
Read more →Heat is the cheapest energy to store, by an order of magnitude. Buffer vessels and heat batteries hold recovered heat until your processes call for it.
Read more →A hybrid system is more engineering than a single technology: sizing, integration, controls and maintenance across four asset classes. That is precisely why the fixed-rate model fits: we carry all of it. Your side of the agreement is one number, fixed at signature, and one invoice a month. The models your half-hourly demand and thermal profile, then tells you which mix your site actually justifies, because not every site needs all four.
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The feasibility review models your half-hourly demand and thermal profile, then tells you which technologies your site actually needs, because not every site needs all four.
We review your consumption data, current tariff, site infrastructure and grid position. A desk study takes 48 hours. A site visit, where required, is arranged within the week.
We produce a detailed feasibility report covering generation technology, capacity, indicative PPA rate and contract structure. Provided at no charge with no obligation to proceed.
A PPA contract is agreed and signed. Indicative contract terms of typically 15 years. Pinion Powerworks manages all planning consent, permitting and grid notification at our cost.
Our engineering team installs and commissions the CHP system around your operational schedule. Deployment typically completes within six to twelve months of contract signature.
From day one of operation you receive electricity at your . We own, operate and maintain the asset for the full life of the contract. You pay your monthly invoice. Nothing else.
The generation asset stays on our balance sheet. We are responsible for all planned and reactive maintenance throughout the contract term.
Your PPA rate is set at contract signature. You are insulated from wholesale price volatility for the full duration of the contract.
Your existing grid connection remains in place as a backup supply. The PPA supplements your connection at lower cost; it does not replace it.
Grid connections for new data centre capacity can take five years to decades. A PPA delivers generation in months.
Read more →Modern distribution centres can require power comparable to a small town. Where the grid can't support that, developers face DNO timelines longer than the build programme.
Read more →The UK's largest manufacturing sector, with energy embedded in every stage and insolvencies rising at triple the wider industry's rate. CHP serves both sides of the process at a fixed rate.
Read more →Cleanroom HVAC takes 50 to 80% of facility power and cannot lose pressure for seconds. Contracted on-site generation for environment-critical load, at a fixed rate.
Read more →Refrigeration accounts for roughly half of total site energy. UK electricity prices have risen 75% since 2021. The estate was not built for today's climate.
Read more →Industry estimates put over 90% of injection moulding running costs down to electricity. Base load on hydraulic machines can account for over 75% even while idling.
Read more →UK producers pay up to 25% more for electricity than French and German rivals, on a process that draws around 700kWh per tonne melted. A fixed rate changes the arithmetic.
Read more →Electricity for grinding and pelleting, gas for conditioning steam. CHP supplies both from one plant, at a fixed rate, on margins that track commodity markets.
Read more →UK energy-intensive firms paid around twice the European average for electricity in 2024, on processes that draw heat and power continuously. CHP was built for this load.
Read more →A £100bn sector scaling toward 2.6% GDP defence spend, with heat treatment and autoclave loads that turn a power cut into scrap. Firm on-site power, deployed in weeks.
Read more →Over 200,000 tonnes of UK reprocessing capacity lost since 2024, while policy pushes more material at the plants that remain. Fixed-rate on-site power holds the economics.
Read more →A £15bn UK real estate asset class. Power availability, not floorspace, is becoming the determinant of which tenants a site can win, retain and relet to.
Read more →Pool sites spend 40 to 80% more on energy than dry ones, and the sector’s bills have more than doubled since 2019. Year-round heat demand is CHP’s best case, from 0.25MW.
Read more →The NHS energy bill has passed £1.4bn and doubled since 2019; campuses run around the clock. Proven CHP economics, with the capital burden removed entirely.
Read more →If your site consumes more than 0.25MW and you face grid constraints or rising costs, get in touch. We assess every enquiry on its merits.
Indicative figures. Subject to full feasibility assessment.
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The underlying engineering team has delivered modular on-site generation for industrial and commercial sites with comparable requirements. Full case study detail is available on request under NDA.
We review every enquiry and respond instantly. No cost, no obligation.
Sector figures on this page are cited and fixed. Site-specific estimates are produced through the feasibility assessment, from the site's own data.
Your installation will be monitored around the clock, with AI anomaly detection trained to flag degradation before it becomes failure and convert breakdowns into planned interventions.
AI sensor analysis will track engine oil quality continuously, catching wear at the chemistry stage rather than the callout stage.
Every driving engine runs on its own proven control logic. The platform monitors, learns and plans around that logic; it does not override it. Dynamic dispatch belongs to the assets built for it, storage first, as they are added.
Every enquiry is assessed against the site's own consumption data, with an instant response.
Figures are indicative and subject to feasibility assessment. The service specification for each site is set out in the agreement.
UK electricity prices have moved sharply over the past five years, while gas, the fuel most on-site generation runs on, has moved by a smaller margin. The chart below sets the two against each other directly, using recorded UK industrial and commercial pricing data.
Three lines run through the chart. The first tracks grid electricity. The second shows the cost of generating electricity on site via gas CHP with no heat credited. The third shows the same system once recovered heat is credited against what a gas boiler would otherwise have cost. A fourth line, the raw industrial gas price itself, can be switched on beneath the chart.
Solid lines are recorded data from ONS and DESNZ. Dotted lines beyond 2026 are an illustrative trend consistent with the direction of official projections, not a point forecast. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
By 2026, grid electricity sits at roughly 25.5p per kWh. The equivalent cost of generating that same electricity on site via gas CHP, with no heat credited, is closer to 15p. Once recovered heat is credited at a typical utilisation rate, the effective cost drops further still.
Since 2021, the gap has widened substantially, and pricing volatility on the grid side has become the larger factor in the comparison, not a secondary one.
Across the full series, average UK industrial electricity has risen from around 4p per kWh in 1990 to roughly 25.5p in 2026, more than a sixfold increase in nominal terms. Industrial gas has moved from around 0.9p to 5.7p per kWh over the same period. Both markets jumped in the 2021–23 energy crisis, and neither has settled back to its pre-crisis level. The repricing was structural, not cyclical.
The commercially important line is not either price alone, but the gap between them. On-site CHP converts gas into electricity, so its cost tracks the gas price. In most years of the past three decades electricity has risen faster than gas in absolute terms, and every year it does, the saving available from widens.
Since the GB electricity and gas markets were deregulated in the early 1990s, the wholesale electricity price has been set by the marginal generator, the last plant needed to meet demand in each half-hour. In the large majority of trading periods that plant burns gas. The consequence is that electricity and gas prices have moved together for three decades: when gas spikes, electricity spikes with it, as 2021–23 demonstrated emphatically.
The relationship is not symmetric, though. Delivered electricity carries the gas price plus everything stacked on top of it: carbon costs under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, network and balancing charges, and policy levies. That is why the ratio between electricity and gas prices, around 4.5:1 per kWh today, has widened over time, and why generating electricity on site from gas consistently undercuts buying the same energy back from the grid.
Gas is expected to remain the marginal price-setter for GB electricity well into the 2030s, even as renewable capacity grows. Electricity therefore retains gas-market volatility, increasingly set by internationally traded LNG, while network charges funding grid expansion, UK ETS carbon pricing, and demand growth from data centres, EV charging and heat pumps all add upward pressure on the delivered price.
Few of those drivers apply to gas itself. The forward outlook is for the electricity–gas gap to persist or widen, and for grid electricity to remain the more volatile of the two. removes exposure to both the level and the volatility.
Figures on this page are drawn from ONS, DESNZ, NESO, Ofgem and Cornwall Insight, and updated as quarterly data is released. No figure on this page is generated.
Apply this methodology to your actual demand, heat profile and current electricity cost.
Reducing carbon emissions requires more than a single technology. The most effective approach is to that work together to maximise efficiency, increase renewable energy use and reduce reliance on the electricity grid.
When these technologies are intelligently integrated, they create a highly efficient, low-carbon energy system. Solar PV supplies renewable electricity, battery storage maximises the utilisation of that renewable generation, and CHP provides dependable, high-efficiency power and useful heat whenever it is needed. Together they reduce exposure to volatile electricity prices, minimise reliance on the grid and significantly lower overall carbon emissions.
For many industrial and commercial facilities, an integrated CHP, Solar PV and BESS solution can deliver substantial reductions in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions while providing a practical, commercially viable pathway towards net zero. Where organisations wish to eliminate any remaining operational emissions, residual carbon can be offset through independently verified carbon credit schemes, enabling a certified net-zero energy solution.
Combined Heat and Power forms the foundation of this strategy. Unlike conventional power stations, which typically lose a significant proportion of the energy they generate as waste heat, CHP captures that heat and uses it on site for manufacturing processes, hot water and space heating. This enables overall system efficiencies of up to 90%, substantially reducing fuel consumption and lowering direct carbon emissions.
Solar PV further enhances the system by generating clean, renewable electricity during daylight hours. Every kilowatt-hour produced on site reduces the need to purchase electricity from the grid, cutting both energy costs and associated carbon emissions. As solar generation produces zero operational emissions, it plays a key role in improving an organisation's environmental performance.
Battery Energy Storage Systems complete the solution by storing excess solar electricity generated during periods of high production. Rather than exporting this valuable energy, it can be used later when demand increases or when solar output falls. Batteries also allow businesses to reduce peak electricity imports, improve energy resilience and optimise the operation of both the CHP plant and the wider electrical network.
Every unit of gas CHP generates approximately 1.2 units of recoverable heat alongside the electricity.
Hot water from the CHP jacket and exhaust heat exchanger feeds heating circuits, replacing gas boiler output directly.
In cold storage and food manufacturing, recovered heat serves defrost cycles and door heating, reducing parasitic load.
High-temperature exhaust heat can feed absorption chillers or steam systems in pharmaceutical and food production.
For every kWh of electricity generated, approximately 1.2 kWh of thermal energy is recoverable. At a site consuming 16MW for 8,760 hours per year, that represents over 168 GWh of recoverable heat annually.
Efficiency and heat recovery do the heavy lifting, but gas CHP still produces residual CO₂. Those residual emissions can be fully offset through the purchase of certified carbon credits, independently verified units, each representing one tonne of CO₂ removed or avoided, issued under recognised standards such as the Woodland Carbon Code, Gold Standard and Verra's Verified Carbon Standard.
Because your generation is metered and its fuel input documented, the residual emissions figure is precise and auditable. Credits are purchased and retired against that figure annually, enabling the system to achieve net-zero status, with a paper trail that stands up to SECR and ESG scrutiny.
Offsetting can be bundled into the from day one, or added at any point during the term, at a transparent cost per tonne.
By generating electricity on site and recovering the heat that would otherwise be lost, CHP already outperforms conventional grid generation. A growing range of environmental initiatives now takes it further, towards a low-carbon or even carbon-neutral energy solution.
Produced from organic materials such as agricultural waste, food waste, sewage sludge and landfill gas, biomethane is chemically almost identical to natural gas after purification and is injected directly into the existing gas network. A CHP system supplied with certified biomethane operates without any modification while dramatically reducing its lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions.
Where physical delivery of biomethane is impractical, certified biomethane can be purchased through a recognised mass-balance or certificate scheme. Your gas consumption is matched with renewable gas production elsewhere in the network, helping meet ambitious decarbonisation targets while making use of existing gas infrastructure.
A Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) provides evidence that one megawatt-hour of electricity has been generated from renewable sources. Alongside CHP, REGOs can form part of a wider corporate renewable energy strategy, demonstrating a commitment to supporting renewable generation and improving environmental reporting.
Where recovered heat is put to productive use and the installation satisfies the efficiency criteria of the UK's CHP Quality Assurance (CHPQA) programme, it qualifies as Good Quality CHP, recognised by government as delivering genuine primary energy savings. A key commercial benefit is relief from the Climate Change Levy on the qualifying electricity generated, reducing costs further while rewarding sites that maximise heat utilisation.
Combining high-efficiency CHP with certified biomethane, renewable energy certification, Good Quality CHP accreditation and robust ESG reporting delivers immediate, measurable carbon reductions without major changes to existing processes or electrical infrastructure. As supplies of renewable gases grow, the environmental performance of CHP improves further over time, reducing operating costs, improving energy resilience and strengthening sustainability credentials.
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Indicative savings
Electricity saving assumes an indicative on-site generation rate of 15p/kWh, fuel, engineering and maintenance included, against your current grid rate. Heat saving assumes a 1.2:1 heat-to-power ratio and recovered heat displacing a 90%-efficient gas boiler at 5.7p/kWh gas. Assumptions are drawn from published sector data. Figures are indicative and subject to feasibility assessment.
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Financial Year 2024–25 · Published June 2025
This statement is made pursuant to Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes Pinion Powerworks Ltd's slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.
Pinion Powerworks Ltd is an independent power developer registered in England and Wales. We finance, design, install and operate Combined Heat and Power generation assets for commercial and industrial clients across the United Kingdom. Our supply chain includes: engineering design consultants, CHP equipment manufacturers (primarily European), electrical and mechanical installation contractors, and operations and maintenance service providers. The majority of our supply chain operates in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.
Pinion Powerworks operates the following policies relevant to slavery and human trafficking: a Supplier Code of Conduct, which requires all suppliers to comply with applicable laws and prohibits the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour; a Whistleblowing Policy, which provides a confidential reporting mechanism for employees and contractors; and an Equal Opportunities and Ethical Trading Policy.
We conduct due diligence on new suppliers before engagement, including review of their own modern slavery policies and compliance frameworks where applicable. Material suppliers are subject to contractual obligations requiring compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and equivalent legislation. We prioritise suppliers who are themselves signatories to relevant anti-slavery commitments.
We assess our business and supply chain as low risk with respect to modern slavery. Our operations are based in the United Kingdom and the majority of our supply chain is located in Western Europe. Equipment manufacturing, where the risk of labour exploitation in global supply chains can be higher, is procured from established European manufacturers who are subject to EU and UK regulatory frameworks. We have identified no instances of slavery or human trafficking in our business or supply chain during the reporting period.
All employees receive awareness training on modern slavery as part of their induction. Senior management receive additional training on identifying risk within supply chains and applying due diligence procedures.
During the financial year 2024–25: no reports of modern slavery were received through our whistleblowing mechanism; 100% of new material suppliers were assessed against our Supplier Code of Conduct; and zero non-compliant suppliers were identified.
This statement was approved by the Board of Directors of Pinion Powerworks Ltd on 1 June 2025.
Director, Pinion Powerworks Ltd
June 2025