HENOC sector focus
Logistics
Warehousing, cold chain and fleet electrification in one cost line.
Distribution operations combine large, lightly occupied buildings with increasingly heavy electrical demand — chilled and frozen storage, automation, and now depot charging for electric vans and HGVs. That last item changes the arithmetic: fleet charging can double a site's peak demand and turn a straightforward supply into a grid connection question. We handle both sides of it.
Typical supply
HH electricity, often large-capacity; modest gas outside cold chain
Load shape
Flat overnight base load, sharp peaks where charging or automation is added
Main cost drivers
Capacity charges, DUoS red-band consumption, refrigeration, EV charging
What makes logistics different
Fleet charging changes the profile
Depot charging concentrates demand into a few hours. Charging inside red-band periods is materially more expensive than shifting it.
Capacity headroom
Adding chargers or automation can exceed agreed capacity, triggering excess charges or a formal connection application.
Cold chain base load
Chilled and frozen storage runs continuously, so small rate differences compound quickly.
Large roofs, unused
Warehouse roof area is often well suited to solar PV — but only worth doing where the day-time load absorbs the generation.
How we work with logistics clients
Profile-aware procurement
Contracts priced against your HH data including any planned charging load, not last year's shape.
Charging window modelling
We model the cost difference between charging schedules so the operational decision is made with numbers.
Connection and capacity work
Where headroom is short, we manage the capacity increase or new connection application with the DNO.
On-site generation appraisal
Solar PV and battery cases built against your actual load and cost of capital, and dropped where they don't pay back.
Common things we find
- Chargers commissioned before capacity is confirmed
- Excess capacity charges appearing quietly after an automation upgrade
- Solar sized to roof area rather than to on-site consumption
Findings vary by client and site. Nothing here is a guarantee of saving — we quote against your own bills, and where we quote savings our clients average around 15%.
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