Voltage optimisation for UK councils and civic estates

Leisure centres and swimming pools are the strongest candidates in a typical council portfolio. Pool plant, air handling, and lighting run continuously and respond well to voltage reduction. Council-owned offices and civic halls are a more moderate but still typically worthwhile case, with heating, hot water, and IT loads.

Budget approval in the public sector depends on a defensible payback window, a defensible carbon number, and a procurement process that treats VO as the engineered capital item it is, not as a soft consultancy purchase. Our proposal format is written with that audience in mind.

Many council sustainability teams use the M&V output as evidence for SECR submissions, for net-zero roadmap reporting, and for bids to Salix, PSDS (Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme), or other decarbonisation funding. We supply the M&V data in a format that can be submitted alongside those applications as supporting evidence.

We work to the procurement process (framework, tender, direct award) that your council operates. We've issued proposals that have been consumed via Crown Commercial Service routes and via direct-award routes for smaller capex items, and we can adapt the proposal format to the route your team uses.

Install is planned around site operation. Leisure centres install during pool-close weeks; council offices install out-of-hours or over weekends; depots install during agreed quiet periods. We coordinate with the facilities lead at the proposal stage.

For historic or listed council buildings, we carry out additional checks on the incoming supply configuration and the install location to ensure the unit siting doesn't conflict with listed-building restrictions. This is something we flag at the survey stage, not at install.