Sustainability, Supercharged.

Solar PV technology harnesses energy from the sun to generate renewable and clean electricity, it’s one of the most popular technologies used to generate power and our team have supported the construction and management of major solar infrastructure projects across the UK 

Our consultants will assess the feasibility of solar installations, taking into account factors like site suitability and regulatory requirements. They will also carry out a thorough tendering process on your business’s behalf, ensuring you get the highest standard of solar panels at the most cost-effective price. We’ll also assist your business in securing incentives from the government, potentially saving you thousands of pounds. 

Combined Heat and Power systems simultaneously generate electricity and heat from a single energy source and typically have 80% energy efficiency, with operators typically saving 20% on energy bills. 

Our team will closely evaluate the energy needs of your business and design bespoke CHP systems that maximize efficiency, reduce emissions, and save costs.

Wind turbines convert wind energy into electricity and the technology is synonymous with renewable power. Wind power in the UK is the backbone of our renewable energy provision and crucial to our net zero commitments and obligations. 

To make the most of the technology, our consultants will help you to select the best wind turbine locations, perform wind resource assessments, and navigate permitting and environmental considerations. Once more, we will also conduct a comprehensive tendering process on your behalf in order to secure the best technology at the most cost-effective point possible.

If you would like to explore the potential of electrifying your fleet, our team can assist in developing charging infrastructure across your UK locations. If your business operates a high volume of vehicles, it is essential that you have plans to transition to none-combustion by 2035 as it will no longer be possible to buy combustion-based engines from 2035 in the UK.

Generating power using biomass involves using organic materials like wood or agricultural residues for power generation. 

Using biomass products to generate power can be one of the most impactful ways of generating power from an alternative source. Our energy consultants will advise on the sourcing of sustainable biomass feedstocks, compliance with emissions standards, and efficient biomass energy system design.

Waste-to-energy processes convert waste materials into heat or electricity. 

Our experts help can help you manage waste streams, choose appropriate technologies, and ensure compliance with environmental regulations. There are several components to managing waste streams and understanding how to improve efficiency can be difficult. That’s why working with a consultant, who has industry-specific knowledge of how to best manage waste, can significantly improve your environmental impact.

Improving energy efficiency is just as important improving green energy generation. If you work to do both, your cost-savings and carbon reductions will be maximised. There is a wide range of measures that you can carry out to improve your energy efficiency, all of which are covered by our team.  

From improving the heat retention of buildings, to improving the efficiency of your existing energy infrastructure, our team can make significant improvements to your energy efficiency in a short period of time.

BMSs control and monitor building systems such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and lighting. These systems can be used to closely control the temperature and air quality inside large scale buildings. 

Our team can help you install BMSs, ensuring your buildings are optimized for energy efficiency. 

LED (light emitting diode) lighting is energy-efficient and long-lasting and can save a business a significant amount of money and reduce carbon emissions in doing so. Changing lighting across multiple sites can be one of the most cost-effective ways improve your businesses sustainability standards.  

We have completed a range of large-scale LED installation projects and can support you with upgrading to LED lighting, calculating energy savings, and ensuring proper disposal of old lighting components. 

Smart meters enable real-time monitoring of energy consumption. Upgrading your meters to smart meters will allow for better understanding of your energy consumption and with controlling your costs. With a smart meter connected with True, you’ll have better visibility than ever. 

Our team will help you select and integrate the most appropriate smart metering depending on your needs in order to enhance your energy management and billing accuracy.

Sub-metering measures specific areas or systems within a facility and can help businesses understand the performance of specific machinery. Sub-metering can help to provide an even greater level of granularity when it comes to measuring energy consumption. 

For businesses that support large-scale manufacturing, our sustainability specialists will always   recommend sub-metering strategies to pinpoint energy hotspots and optimize resource allocation. 

Carbon consultancy is a service offered by specialist organisations that can measure and evaluate the carbon emissions of a large-scale organisation. The first step that a company should take when tackling its emissions and sustainability, is understanding where and how carbon is emitted. Once you have a clear picture of your carbon emissions, you can start to make changes and improvements.  

It’s vital to understand the difference between Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions and how they impact your business, because there are different technologies and strategies for tacking each kind.  

 To help you understand more, here’s one of our Senior Sustainability Consultants, Jonathan Anstey, to explain more.

Carbon road mapping outlines a strategic path toward carbon reduction goals. Taking into account your Scope 1,2 and 3 assessment, our team will be lay out a clear path towards net zero for your organisation. Our team will highlight how investments in certain technologies will bring this future closer to reality, making your sustainability targets achievable and cost effective.

Funding Sustainable Initiatives 

Our team has in depth knowledge of the most important funding schemes that are available to UK businesses, having supported hundreds of applications for grants and financial aid for sustainability projects. Our team will be able to identify the most appropriate schemes for your organisation and move forward with an application.  

PPAs are one of the most powerful instruments a business can use to access sustainable technology without paying a premium. With a power purchase agreement, you will not incur any upfront payment when it comes to investing in technology such as solar panels or wind turbines.  

Sustainability consultants help negotiate and structure PPAs to ensure competitive pricing and renewable energy procurement.

A fully funded project can be achieved through the use of a PPA meaning the total cost of a project is met by an investor, typically a renewable energy investment fund who then recovers their cost through selling the renewable energy generated to the energy user.

Lease financing can be applied to an energy efficiency or energy generation project and are typically structured so repayments are less than the gross energy cost saving. This means that a project is cash positive from point of installation with the total of the asset passing to the energy user at the end of the term.

A PPA is the agreement between two parties to buy and sell power. A CPPA is a PPA but the generation will not be local to the energy user’s facility, meaning that the power does enter the grid and therefore attracts any non-commodity charges that apply. 

The team at OEM can assist in sourcing a suitable CPPA to match your corporate objectives around net zero whilst also being negotiated with knowledge of your trading position.