A £20 million, three-year clean energy agreement demonstrates the infrastructure-grade model now required for modern data centre operations.

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 GWh of energy 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.