Independent energy infrastructure advice for critical facilities, secure estates, healthcare, data centres, and emergency services — where power continuity, hardware provenance, and data sovereignty are as important as cost and carbon.
Most cleantech feasibility assessments focus on yield, payback, and procurement route. Very few address the security implications of the hardware being specified — and for critical and secure facilities, this is a serious gap.
Solar inverters, battery management systems, energy monitoring platforms, and SCADA-connected devices from certain manufacturers — particularly those produced in China — are built with default configurations that route operational data to overseas servers. This data can include real-time consumption profiles, grid connection topology, generation output, system status, and in some architectures, remote access credentials that could allow external parties to interact with control systems.
For a retail warehouse this may be a manageable risk. For a hospital, an emergency services facility, a government estate, a data centre, or a defence supply chain site, it is a procurement issue that needs to be addressed before a single piece of equipment is ordered.
We advise on hardware security, network architecture, and data sovereignty as a standard part of every engagement with critical and secure facilities — not as an optional add-on.
This is not a theoretical risk. Multiple national cyber security agencies have issued advisories about connected energy infrastructure hardware from non-European manufacturers. UK public sector organisations and critical national infrastructure operators should treat hardware provenance as a procurement requirement, not a preference.
Our work with critical and secure facilities combines energy resilience advisory with a level of security awareness that standard cleantech consultants do not apply. The result is energy infrastructure that is not only technically sound and commercially viable — but safe to operate in sensitive environments.
A structured review of your current and planned energy infrastructure against security criteria — identifying hardware with problematic data routing, network vulnerabilities in connected energy assets, and gaps in your operational resilience posture.
Assessment of your critical load requirements, backup generation options, battery storage for bridging and resilience, and the right combination to maintain essential operations during a grid outage — sized and specified against your actual continuity requirements.
For sites where grid independence is a requirement, we design islanded microgrid architectures combining solar, storage, and backup generation — with islanding protection specified to meet your operational continuity and safety requirements.
Controls system specification and network architecture designed with security in mind from the outset — covering network segmentation, remote access controls, authentication architecture, and integration with existing IT and OT security frameworks.
Procurement documentation that embeds hardware provenance requirements, data handling obligations, security testing criteria, and supply chain transparency requirements — so security criteria survive from specification through supplier selection to contract.
Assessment of energy systems already installed — inverters, monitoring platforms, building energy management systems, and connected metering — against current security standards and data routing behaviour. Identifying remediation actions where risks exist.
These organisations share a common requirement — energy infrastructure that is resilient, secure, and specified in a way that does not create new vulnerabilities.
Hospitals, GP practices, mental health facilities, and care homes where power continuity is a patient safety issue and procurement follows NHS supply chain frameworks with specific security requirements.
Police, fire, and ambulance stations, control rooms, and coordination centres where operational continuity during a major incident is non-negotiable and network security is a standing requirement.
Facilities with contractual uptime guarantees where energy cost, resilience, and sustainability commitments all need to be met simultaneously, and where connected infrastructure is a known attack surface.
Central and local government buildings, MOD supply chain, HMRC, DVLA, and other estates with data handling obligations, procurement rules on hardware origin, and net zero targets to meet.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 defence contractors whose facilities handle sensitive material and operate under supply chain security requirements that affect what hardware can be specified and from whom.
Operational technology environments where energy management systems interface with process control infrastructure and where the boundary between IT security and OT security is critical to maintain.
We start with a confidential conversation about your site, your operational requirements, your current energy infrastructure, and your security constraints. We do not need sensitive operational detail at this stage — just enough to scope the work appropriately.
We review your existing and planned energy infrastructure against security and resilience criteria — identifying hardware risks, network vulnerabilities, and gaps in your resilience posture alongside the standard energy assessment.
We develop resilience and energy options that meet both your operational and security requirements — specifying hardware from manufacturers with appropriate provenance and data handling characteristics, and designing network architecture accordingly.
We produce procurement documentation that embeds security requirements explicitly — so they cannot be traded away during supplier negotiation or value engineering without your knowledge and approval.
We provide independent oversight during delivery — verifying that installed hardware matches specification, that network configurations are implemented correctly, and that security requirements have been met before handover.
Talk to us in confidence about your requirements. We understand the additional constraints that apply to sensitive environments and we structure our work accordingly.