Multi-year renewable offtake agreement reinforces UrbanChain’s role in UK flexible supply

A commercial property manager with over 300 retail units — consuming around 256 GW of power annually — faced a fragmented energy setup: multiple suppliers, contracts, rates, and account structures across their portfolio.

Due to the scale of their energy asset, many suppliers declined to work a leading agricultural business — leaving the company without a reliable route to market.

A growing investment firm needed to diversify its energy portfolio and didn’t want to rely on a single energy buyer, as this could expose their revenue to market risk.

Instead of losing value by selling excess power back to the wholesale market at lower rates, a commercial property owner wanted a way to transfer surplus energy to their other commercial sites.

A school's goal was to connect their main building’s generation capacity to other school sites, allowing them to directly use their own clean energy rather than exporting it to the grid and buying it back at higher prices