We develop commercial solar projects and place them across our institutional funding panel. For end customers: lower contracted electricity costs. For installers, TPIs, and funders: projects that actually get built and energised.
Whether you're a UK business looking to lower electricity costs, an installer bringing work to the framework, a TPI adding funded solar to your offering, or a commercial landlord monetising your roof inventory, we connect the dots.
We develop commercial solar projects and arrange the funding so you can access below-grid electricity without capital outlay. Direct conversations, coordinated delivery, and projects that get built and energised.
Get a quote →Access our institutional funding panel, our in-house development capability, and our deep understanding of each funder's requirements. Deals placed where they fit. Projects that don't get stuck.
Join as an installer →Bring your client relationships. We bring the development capability, the funding panel, and the deal placement expertise. Your clients get funded commercial solar that actually gets built and energised.
Partner with us →From tenant-funded PPAs to landlord-owned frameworks where you deploy your own capital and own the long-term income. Portfolio rollout, MEES 2030 readiness, and deals your tenants will say yes to.
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MTFD delivers all workstreams against the funder DD checklist: grid, planning, legal, technical, and commercial. The data room is built funder-ready from day one.
We match the project to the funder whose process, pricing methodology, and commercial appetite fit best. Executable documents signed; project rights transferred at RTB.
EPC mobilises against funder employer requirements. Milestones tracked through construction, COD, and handover, so projects actually get built and energised.
MTFD delivers full RTB development in-house. Fifteen workstreams, one accountable team, one funder-ready data room.
Connection applications, DNO acceptance, planning consent, pre-construction conditions discharge.
Site surveys, structural assessments, half-hourly data analysis, design deliverables, CDM compliance.
HoTs, Report on Title, property consents, insurance, export metering, financial modelling.
If you've got a wider project or a different asset class, EV charging, heat, efficiency, wind, BESS, we review these case-by-case. Typically commercial asset finance rather than a PPA, always worth a conversation.
Explore other asset types →Whether you're the end customer, the installer, the TPI, or the funder. If there's a project to look at, let's talk.
A commercial Power Purchase Agreement lets your business host solar on your roof or site with zero upfront cost, and buy the electricity it generates at a rate below grid. MTFD develops, arranges funding for, and installs the system. You just pay for the power you use.
A commercial Power Purchase Agreement is a long-term contract, typically 10 to 25 years, where a funder installs and owns a solar PV system on your site, and your business agrees to buy the electricity it generates at a fixed or indexed rate.
That rate is set below the price you currently pay the grid, which typically means savings from day one. When the PPA term ends, the system is often transferred to you at no cost, subject to the contract terms.
We develop the project end-to-end: grid application, planning, structural survey, design, and all 15 due diligence workstreams. Then we match the project to the right funder from our framework and manage delivery through to commissioning.
Your site. Your power. Their capital, our delivery.
No upfront cost. No balance sheet impact. The funder pays for the system; you pay only for the electricity it generates.
Your PPA tariff is typically set below your current grid rate, meaning savings begin with the first unit generated.
Fix or index your PPA rate for up to 25 years. Lock in certainty while the grid price moves around.
When grid prices spike, your PPA rate protects a meaningful share of your electricity spend.
Report verified on-site generation against your scope 2 emissions. Hard numbers for ESG reporting.
The funder owns and maintains the system. You don't manage the asset, the insurance, or the performance.
Projected savings depend on your site's consumption profile, grid tariff, PPA rate, system performance, and other site-specific factors. Figures are indicative only and not guaranteed.
A PPA rate from our pricing engine within minutes. Inputs verified, rate confirmed, and into your contract.
We confirm roof/site suitability, grid capacity, and structural integrity.
We complete all development workstreams, grid, planning, legal, design.
You sign the PPA and lease. Our EPC partner mobilises to site.
System is commissioned, metered, and generating. You start saving.
Every installer on the MTFD framework is vetted to work on live commercial sites, not just technically, but operationally.
Every installer on our framework has completed a PAS 91 pre-qualification questionnaire, the standardised construction industry assessment covering competence, capability, financial standing, and quality management.
All installs operate under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015, meaning proper planning, risk assessment, and safety management across every stage of the project.
Our installers are briefed on your core business activities before they arrive. Hygiene zones, live yard traffic, customer-facing areas, noise-sensitive hours, whatever matters to your site, they work around it.
For multi-site operators, running PPAs as a portfolio programme unlocks economics that site-by-site projects can't. Different workflow, different commercial case, different outcomes.
One commercial framework covers all sites in your portfolio with standardised terms, documentation templates, and delivery standards. New sites can be added to the programme without renegotiating the underlying structure.
We assess your full estate, rank sites by commercial strength, and deliver in waves starting with the strongest cases. Early wins inform later phases and learning is applied across the programme.
Standardised design, procurement, and installer mobilisation across multiple sites reduces per-site cost significantly. Material procurement, grid applications, and legal workstreams all benefit from portfolio scale.
Individual sites that would be uneconomic on their own can qualify under portfolio-wide commercial terms. Sites that wouldn't justify their own development cost can be included as part of a larger programme.
Dedicated programme management coordinates sequencing, reporting, and stakeholder communication across the portfolio, so you're not managing dozens of independent projects with different teams.
Portfolio deals typically attract better funding terms than site-by-site arrangements. One funder across multiple sites drives commercial outcomes that individual sites cannot achieve on their own.
Own commercial property rather than occupy it? If you're a commercial landlord or property owner with multiple buildings, we have a dedicated framework for portfolio rollout across landlord estates, including options where you deploy your own capital and own the long-term income stream.
See our Commercial Landlords page →Get a real PPA rate from our pricing engine, based on your actual site and consumption.
Most commercial solar projects work best as a PPA: zero capex, no operational burden, long-term price certainty. But for some businesses, owning the asset and keeping the tax benefits matters more. If that's you, we can arrange commercial asset finance to make it work.
Your business is profitable, and capital allowances on solar assets may make a meaningful difference to your tax liability. Keeping the allowances typically means capex, not PPA.
You want to own the generation outright, for ESG reporting, for group energy strategy, or because your business model treats energy assets as core infrastructure.
You're not comfortable committing to a 15–25 year PPA, or your site tenure is uncertain beyond 5–10 years.
For many commercial solar projects, a PPA delivers a strong outcome. Asset finance is the right tool when the specific conditions above apply. The right route depends on your business circumstances.
| PPA (default route) | Asset Finance | |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | Zero | Zero (financed across term) |
| Asset ownership | Funder owns for term, transfers at end | You own from day one (HP / finance lease) |
| Capital allowances | Funder claims them | You claim them (subject to tax position) |
| Term length | 15–25 years | 3–10 years |
| You pay for | Electricity generated, per kWh | The asset itself, fixed monthly/quarterly |
| O&M responsibility | Funder's O&M partner, included | Your responsibility, can be bundled |
| Price certainty | Fixed or indexed for 15–25 years | Fixed repayments, grid-price exposure remains |
| Operational burden | None, funder manages the asset | Yours (O&M, insurance, performance) |
Tax treatment, including capital allowances, depends on individual circumstances and may change. The comparison above is for general guidance only and does not constitute financial, tax, or legal advice. Obtain independent professional advice before making a decision.
Our team will walk you through which structure suits your accounting treatment and cash position. Your own accountant or tax advisor should confirm the right fit.
Fixed payments across the term, ownership transfers to you at the end. Suits customers who want full asset ownership and capital allowances.
You use the asset across the term, with a residual value at the end. Keeps the asset on balance sheet; flexibility at term end.
Rental-style structure, asset stays off balance sheet. Lower monthly cost, but you don't own the system at the end.
Most businesses start with a PPA quote. If capex is the better fit, we'll show you that side-by-side.
Pair storage with solar to use more of what you generate, or fund standalone BESS to shave peaks and strengthen resilience. MTFD develops, arranges funding for, and installs across both, via PPA or commercial asset finance, depending on what fits.
Solar generates when the sun shines, which doesn't always match when your business uses electricity. A battery stores excess solar during the day and discharges it during evening peaks or overnight, increasing the share of on-site generation you actually consume.
For commercial sites, that can mean more savings from the same solar system, reduced exposure to peak-time grid charges, and a measurable step-up in energy resilience. Actual outcomes depend on your site's load profile.
Store daytime solar generation for use during evening and overnight site load, capturing more value from every panel.
Discharge during peak-price grid windows to reduce your demand charges and TRIAD-style exposure.
Maintain critical loads during grid outages. Useful for manufacturing, cold storage, and operations that can't afford downtime.
Shift load across the day to smooth demand profiles and improve the commercial case for future site expansion.
We arrange BESS funding across three routes, two available today, one coming soon.
We develop, arrange funding for, and install BESS as part of co-located solar projects under a standard PPA. Battery sizing integrates with your solar design and consumption profile, delivered as a single package, off-balance-sheet, zero capex.
For sites without solar, or where the battery case stands on its own, we arrange standalone BESS through commercial asset finance. You own the asset with payments spread across the term, on-balance-sheet.
An off-balance-sheet funding structure for standalone BESS is in development, giving you the commercial benefits of storage without the asset on your balance sheet. Get in touch to discuss your project and timelines.
Tell us about your site and consumption. We'll model the commercial case and the funding route that fits.
MTFD purchases existing commercial solar assets from businesses that no longer want to own them, converting them to a PPA so your site keeps the generation and the savings, without the ownership burden. Release capital, end the O&M headache, and stop worrying about inverter replacements, insurance claims, and end-of-warranty surprises.
When the original solar project was approved, it looked like a smart capex decision, generate your own power, save money, hit your carbon targets. Years later, the reality for many businesses is different. Inverters need replacing. O&M contracts are renewing at higher rates. Performance is drifting. Insurance claims are getting harder. The person who championed the project may have moved on, and the asset feels like a distraction from the core business.
Meanwhile, the capital is still tied up in a non-core infrastructure asset sitting on your balance sheet, and you're bearing operational risk that a professional asset owner could carry more efficiently. If any of that sounds familiar, selling the asset and moving to a PPA may be the cleanest route out, without losing any of the benefits that made the original investment attractive.
Get the capital tied up in the asset back onto your balance sheet, ready to redeploy into core business priorities.
No more managing O&M providers, inverter replacements, performance monitoring, or component failures. We take it all on.
Continue consuming the electricity the system generates under a new PPA, at rates typically below your current grid price.
The asset and its associated liabilities come off your books, simplifying reporting and freeing up asset capacity.
End-of-warranty components, degradation concerns, and insurance disputes become our problem, not yours.
Your site benefits from asset management and O&M run to institutional standards, often improving performance over the current arrangement.
Commercial outcomes depend on asset condition, remaining useful life, site-specific factors, and the agreed PPA structure. Figures and benefits are indicative only. Obtain independent tax and legal advice before proceeding.
Tell us about the asset, size, age, location, performance history, existing O&M arrangements.
We run technical and commercial due diligence across 15 workstreams including operational history.
We come back with a valuation, proposed PPA terms, and a clean exit structure.
Asset transfers to our funder, new PPA starts, we take over O&M and asset management.
You keep consuming the power under the PPA. We handle everything else for the life of the asset.
We don't treat existing assets as a lighter product. The same 15-category framework that funders use for new-build RTB approval applies to asset purchases, plus a dedicated operational history category unique to secondary assets.
We look at grid connection documentation, planning consents, structural surveys, handover documentation, CDM and H&S records, PPA billing history, legal title, insurance consent, export metering, technical DD, credit, financial modelling, and the full operational history of the asset since energisation.
That last one matters. For secondary assets, we specifically review O&M logs, fault records, component replacement history, warranty claims, grid constraints and curtailments, historical planning issues, H&S incidents, invoicing anomalies, and insurance claims. It's detailed work, and it's why sellers get a fair valuation, we price the asset based on what's actually there, not worst-case assumptions.
The original project made sense at the time, but ownership has turned out to be more complex, costly, or distracting than expected. You want out of asset ownership without losing the generation benefit.
Your O&M contract is expiring, inverter replacements are approaching, or a major component is nearing end of life. Selling now transfers that decision, and its cost, to a professional asset owner.
You've got a strategic reason to free up capital tied in non-core infrastructure, acquisition, expansion, debt reduction, or simply redeploying into higher-return activities.
The person who led the original solar decision has left, and the asset is now an orphaned line item nobody wants to own. Selling it cleanly resolves the management question.
100 kWp and above for single assets. Portfolios considered from 50 kWp per site if the overall scale makes the commercial case work.
The asset should have a documented performance track record. Underperformance isn't a blocker, we'll price accordingly, but we need to see the data.
Clear title to the asset, accessible site for O&M takeover, and a commercially viable setup over the remaining useful life.
The page above is written for end clients selling their own assets, but we also work with independent operators, smaller solar funds, and developers holding operational portfolios. If you're looking to exit a position, recycle capital at the end of a hold period, or rationalise a portfolio, we're open to those conversations too.
These are typically B2B portfolio transactions with different commercial dynamics to end-client sales, and we handle them directly rather than through the standard process. Get in touch and we'll set up a call with the right person.
Speak to our team about a portfolio sale →Share a few details about your system and we'll come back with an indicative valuation and PPA structure.
Manufacturing sites are among the strongest commercial solar opportunities in the UK. High daytime electricity consumption, extended operating hours, and large roof footprints combine to make self-consumption rates and payback profiles that few other sectors can match. We understand what manufacturers actually need from a PPA partner, and what makes an install work on a live production site.
Most UK manufacturers operate extended daytime shifts with significant baseload demand from process equipment, compressors, HVAC, and lighting. That consumption profile overlaps closely with solar generation hours, meaning well-sized rooftop systems achieve high self-consumption ratios, often between 60% and 85%, without requiring battery storage to shift generation into unused periods.
High self-consumption is the single biggest driver of PPA economics. Every kWh generated and used on-site displaces grid electricity at your full commercial tariff, currently around 24–28 p/kWh for most C&I customers. Exported electricity earns a fraction of that through SEG or bilateral export agreements, so the more you can consume on-site, the stronger the commercial case.
Manufacturing sites also tend to have the right physical characteristics for large rooftop installations. Portal frame and steel-sheet roofs are generally well-suited to non-penetrative fixing systems, roof pitches are typically solar-friendly, and the building footprints are large enough to host systems of meaningful scale, commonly 250 kWp to 1 MWp or more on a single site.
The combination of high load, high self-consumption, and large deployable roof area is why manufacturing often delivers the strongest PPA rates and the most compelling commercial case of any C&I sector. If you're running a manufacturing site with significant electricity spend, solar PPA is almost always worth assessing.
Manufacturing capital is best deployed in productive capacity, new lines, automation, inventory, working capital. A PPA delivers the energy benefits without diverting capex from core investment priorities.
For manufacturers quoting long-term contracts or running tight margin products, electricity price certainty is commercially valuable in its own right. A PPA fixes a meaningful share of your electricity cost for up to 25 years.
Major customers increasingly require suppliers to report and reduce Scope 2 emissions. On-site solar delivers verified, market-based emission reductions, the hard numbers needed for procurement questionnaires and supply chain audits.
Manufacturing electricity bills are directly exposed to wholesale price swings and network charge increases. A PPA rate is set at the start and remains independent of market movements.
The funder owns the system and their O&M partner handles everything, monitoring, cleaning, inverter replacements, insurance claims. Your maintenance team stays focused on production equipment, not energy infrastructure.
You get the carbon reduction, the marketing benefit, and the sustainability credentials, without the long-term asset risk, end-of-life liability, or insurance complications that come with owning generation plant.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
A manufacturing site is not a greenfield install. We understand that, and every installer we work with is vetted to operate around live production.
We plan roof works around your shift patterns, planned maintenance windows, and shutdown periods. Where continuous operation is critical, we work out-of-hours or phase the install to minimise disruption to lines running below.
Every install operates under Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 with Principal Designer review, Construction Phase Plans, and RAMS tailored to the specific risks of working above active manufacturing areas.
Access routes, lifting zones, and material storage are planned to avoid production areas, warehouse traffic lanes, and emergency access routes. We coordinate with your H&S team before mobilisation, not on day one.
Manufacturing sites often have significant contracted maximum demand, which affects G99 application strategy. We run capacity studies before applying to avoid surprises at DNO acceptance stage.
Temperature-controlled areas, precision manufacturing zones, vibration-sensitive equipment, and clean rooms all require specific working protocols. We brief installers on your site-specific constraints before they arrive.
Portal frame and steel-sheet roofs vary significantly in condition and residual life. We commission independent structural surveys to confirm roof capacity and life against the full PPA term.
Share your site details and consumption data. We'll come back with an indicative PPA rate, sizing, and savings model specific to your operation.
Food and beverage production is an energy-intensive sector under sustained pressure on input costs, customer ESG requirements, and operational compliance. On-site solar delivers meaningful electricity cost reduction alongside verified carbon credentials, but it has to be installed without compromising hygiene, traceability, or production continuity. We understand what that means in practice.
Food and beverage producers combine three characteristics that make solar PPA economics genuinely compelling. High refrigeration load creates continuous daytime and nighttime baseload demand, every cold store, blast chiller, and process cooling line draws consistently. Extended production hours mean most of the working day overlaps with solar generation. And the sites themselves tend to be large, single-storey warehouse or factory buildings with substantial roof area.
The result is self-consumption rates that are typically among the highest in the C&I space. Refrigeration alone can absorb a meaningful proportion of solar generation during daylight hours, before you account for production line power, lighting, process heat pumps, or packaging equipment.
There's also a sector-specific commercial case that sits alongside the energy economics. Major retailers and food service customers, supermarkets, quick-service restaurants, hotel groups, public sector caterers, increasingly require suppliers to demonstrate measurable Scope 2 emissions reduction as a condition of contract renewal. Solar PPA delivers that with hard, verifiable numbers.
For businesses competing for long-term supply contracts, on-site renewable generation has moved from a "nice to have" sustainability story to a commercial prerequisite. The question is increasingly not whether to deploy it, but how to fund it without diverting capital from core production investment.
Continuous cooling demand means solar generation is absorbed on-site rather than exported at a fraction of its value. This is the single biggest factor in PPA economics and it's structurally strong for F&B operations.
Your largest customers are under their own Scope 3 reporting pressure, which flows back to suppliers. On-site solar provides the verified market-based emissions reduction that satisfies these requirements without third-party offset schemes.
F&B margins are notoriously tight and energy is a major input cost for refrigerated and thermally-processed production. A PPA hedges a meaningful share of electricity cost against wholesale price volatility.
A PPA delivers the energy and ESG benefits without diverting capital from production line upgrades, packaging automation, cold chain expansion, or working capital. Zero capex, zero balance sheet impact.
Renewable energy generation is increasingly listed in supplier qualification questionnaires and sustainability sections of retailer tenders. On-site solar gives you a direct, verifiable answer rather than a policy statement.
F&B operations have enough compliance burden without adding generation asset ownership. A PPA means the funder's O&M partner handles the system, your team stays focused on production, food safety, and quality.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Food and beverage sites have operational constraints that most commercial sectors don't. We understand them, and every installer we work with is briefed on what they mean before mobilisation.
Roof works above production areas, especially open-product zones and clean areas, require strict protocols for dust, debris, and FOD control. Installers are briefed on your hygiene zone classifications before they arrive and work to agreed contamination-risk protocols.
Construction work on food production sites has to be documented to withstand customer and certification body audits. We operate under CDM 2015 with documentation standards that support BRC, SALSA, and bespoke retailer audit requirements.
Cold stores, chilled production areas, and ambient-temperature-sensitive equipment require work to be planned around environmental conditions. We coordinate with your operations team on roof penetration timing, weather contingency, and insulation continuity.
Solar installations on F&B sites require careful consideration of bird nesting and pest management. Panel gaps and cable routing are planned to avoid creating nesting opportunities, and bird protection measures are specified where needed.
Electrical isolation work has to be coordinated around cold chain continuity. Installers work with your facilities and engineering teams to ensure refrigeration plant remains fully operational throughout grid connection and commissioning activities.
Every material, every worker, every activity is documented to a standard that supports post-install audits by your customers, insurers, or certification bodies. This is built into how our installer network operates, not bolted on at the end.
Share your site details, consumption data, and ESG requirements. We'll come back with an indicative PPA rate and savings model specific to your operation.
Distribution centres, logistics hubs, and warehousing operations have some of the largest roof footprints in UK commercial property, often hundreds of thousands of square metres across a single estate. Combined with predictable daytime operations and growing electrification of materials handling equipment, the sector represents one of the most scalable solar opportunities in the country.
Large distribution warehouses were designed for internal operations, not energy generation, but the building typology turns out to be almost perfectly suited to commercial solar. Single-storey, wide-span steel-frame buildings with low-pitch or flat roofs and minimal rooftop obstructions mean high deployable roof area per site and straightforward structural calculations. A single regional distribution centre can easily host a 1–2 MWp system, and multi-site operators can scale the same approach across portfolios of dozens of buildings.
Logistics operations also tend to have relatively predictable daytime demand. Lighting, conveyors, MHE charging, HVAC, and increasingly EV fleet charging combine to create load profiles that overlap well with solar generation, particularly as the sector continues to electrify materials handling and last-mile delivery.
Historically, logistics sites had lower self-consumption rates than manufacturing because electrical load was modest relative to building size. That's changed. MHE electrification, cold chain growth, automated sortation, and EV fleet charging have all pushed logistics electricity demand upward, and all of these loads are daytime and therefore solar-friendly.
The other structural advantage is portfolio standardisation. Logistics operators often run similar building specifications across multiple sites, which means design, procurement, and install can be standardised across a programme. That lowers per-site delivery cost and accelerates deployment timelines, something single-site sectors can't match.
Scale improves the economics of every project. Larger systems spread fixed development and install costs across more generation capacity, delivering better PPA rates than smaller commercial deployments.
Electric forklifts, automated sortation, and EV last-mile fleets are steadily increasing daytime electricity demand at distribution sites. Solar directly addresses the growing load without new grid capacity.
Standardised building specifications across an estate mean solar can be deployed as a programme rather than one-off projects. Commercial terms, documentation, and delivery are optimised for multi-site operators.
Most logistics sites operate extended daytime or 24-hour cycles with stable baseload profiles. This consistency makes sizing and yield modelling more accurate and PPA economics more reliable.
Retailers, manufacturers, and e-commerce clients are increasingly asking logistics partners to report verified emissions reductions. On-site solar gives you a hard answer to supplier sustainability questionnaires.
Many logistics operators run asset-light models with leased property and minimal owned infrastructure. A PPA fits that model, zero capex, zero ownership, electricity cost reduction built in.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Distribution centres are operationally sensitive environments with continuous vehicle movement, strict safety protocols, and tight delivery schedules. We understand the constraints and plan installs around them.
Lifting operations, material deliveries, and mobile plant have to be coordinated around continuous HGV and MHE traffic. Access routes, lay-down areas, and working zones are planned with your transport and yard management teams before mobilisation.
Many distribution sites are leased rather than owned. We handle landlord consent, licence to alter, and any required Section 38A notices as part of the development workstreams, not left until the legals stage when it's too late.
Large-span portal frame roofs can have varying residual capacity depending on age, specification, and load history. Independent structural surveys confirm roof capacity against the full system weight and expected life against the PPA term.
Systems above 1 MWp on large single sites can push against available DNO capacity. We run capacity studies before G99 applications to avoid reduced offers that would undermine the commercial case.
24-hour distribution operations mean there are no quiet weekends. Installs are phased and sequenced to maintain operational continuity, with electrical isolation work planned around shift patterns and delivery peaks.
For portfolio rollouts we manage sequencing across sites, coordinating with your property team, funding approvals, DNO applications, and installer mobilisation as a single programme rather than a series of independent projects.
Whether it's a single distribution centre or a portfolio of sites, share your details and we'll assess the commercial case and the programme approach that fits.
Retail businesses face a distinctive combination of pressures: high-profile customer-facing ESG commitments, significant electricity spend across estates, and tight margins that make capex investment in non-core infrastructure difficult to justify. Solar PPA addresses all three, delivering verified carbon reduction and cost certainty without diverting capital from the core retail operation.
Retail operations rarely sit in a single building. Supermarkets, DIY stores, garden centres, fashion chains, convenience stores, and out-of-town retail parks typically operate across dozens or hundreds of sites, with property relationships ranging from freehold ownership to long leases to short-term occupancy. That portfolio structure changes how solar should be approached.
The commercial case for any individual store depends on store size, electricity spend, roof ownership, lease length, and landlord relationship. Not every site in an estate will be a strong candidate, but across a portfolio, a meaningful subset usually is. The job is to identify and prioritise the right sites rather than trying to solar-panel everything.
Retail electricity loads are generally daytime-dominated with a strong overlap between trading hours and solar generation. Lighting, refrigeration (for grocery), HVAC, payment systems, and customer-facing displays all draw consistently during opening hours. Large-format stores with substantial roof area and high consumption are typically the strongest candidates; small-format convenience stores with constrained roof footprints rarely are.
The other factor is customer-facing visibility. Retailers' ESG commitments are made publicly, reported in sustainability disclosures, and scrutinised by customers and investors. On-site solar gives you verifiable evidence of action against those commitments, not a policy statement, but hard-metered generation data.
Deploying across dozens of sites via capex would absorb significant capital that retail operators need for store refurbishment, expansion, and stock. A PPA lets you scale across the estate without the cash-flow impact.
Retailers have made highly visible carbon reduction commitments in sustainability reports, investor communications, and customer-facing marketing. On-site solar provides verifiable evidence to back up those commitments.
Retail margins are tight and energy costs are a significant overhead. A PPA fixes a meaningful share of electricity cost for up to 25 years, protecting margin from the wholesale volatility that hit the sector hard during 2022–23.
Visible solar installations on prominent retail buildings communicate sustainability commitment directly to customers. Combined with in-store messaging, this delivers brand benefit alongside the commercial savings.
Store managers and regional operations teams don't want energy asset management added to their responsibilities. The funder's O&M partner handles everything, monitoring, maintenance, insurance, so store teams stay focused on retail operations.
Portfolios can be deployed in waves, starting with the strongest commercial candidates and extending to others as funding, lease arrangements, and capital planning allow. We structure programmes to fit retail operating rhythms.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Retail environments bring specific constraints, customer experience, trading hours, landlord relationships, and varied building types across an estate. We understand them.
Disruption to customer experience is unacceptable. Works that could affect trading, noise, access restrictions, reduced car parking, are planned around opening hours, quieter trading days, or overnight windows where possible.
Most retail sites are leased, and lease terms vary widely. We review the lease, secure landlord consent and licence to alter, and handle any required Section 38A notices as part of the standard development process.
A retail estate might include purpose-built supermarkets, high-street units, retail park anchor stores, and standalone convenience shops. We assess each site individually against its specific building type rather than applying a one-size template.
Retail sites have regular delivery schedules, restocking windows, and seasonal re-merchandising cycles. Install planning respects these operational rhythms so goods-in and customer-facing activities continue without interruption.
Point-of-sale systems, refrigeration, and customer-facing technology cannot be interrupted during trading. Grid connection and electrical work are planned during closed hours or with temporary backup arrangements.
Construction activity anywhere near customer-accessible areas requires additional safety controls, clear exclusion zones, signage, material handling protocols, and in some cases working entirely outside trading hours.
Share your estate data and sustainability priorities. We'll identify the strongest commercial candidates and propose a phased rollout that fits your operating rhythm.
Hotels, holiday parks, leisure centres, golf clubs, restaurants, and attractions share a common energy profile, high year-round electricity consumption, significant heating and hot water demand, and guest experiences that cannot be interrupted. Solar PPA delivers cost savings and carbon reduction without compromising any of that.
Leisure and hospitality sites rarely shut down. Even during low season, core systems, HVAC, hot water, refrigeration, pool plant, kitchens, continue operating to maintain the property for whenever guests arrive next. That means consistent baseload demand that solar generation can offset for significant portions of the year, even before you count peak season consumption.
The sector also tends to have a clear commercial case for ESG action. Sustainability credentials increasingly feature in guest decision-making, corporate event bookings, and travel operator partnerships. Hotels, holiday parks, and leisure destinations that can demonstrate verified renewable generation on-site have a tangible marketing advantage alongside the direct cost savings.
Buildings vary widely across the sector, from heritage hotels with pitched tile roofs to modern-build holiday park lodges to purpose-built leisure centres with large flat roofs. Each comes with its own design, planning, and installation considerations. The commercial case is rarely one-size-fits-all.
The most important constraint is guest experience. Any visible disruption, construction noise, contractor traffic, reduced facility access, visual obstruction, directly affects revenue. Installs have to be planned around peak seasons, event calendars, and the property's specific guest profile. We understand that.
Even during low season, continuous HVAC, hot water, and operational loads mean solar generation is consumed on-site rather than exported. This keeps self-consumption rates strong regardless of occupancy patterns.
Sustainability increasingly drives guest booking decisions and corporate event choices. Verified on-site generation is a marketing asset with genuine substance, not greenwashing that risks reputational backlash.
Leisure and hospitality margins are under pressure from rising labour, food, and energy costs. A PPA fixes a meaningful share of electricity cost for 15–25 years, protecting margin against further wholesale volatility.
Hospitality teams are focused on guest experience, not energy asset management. The funder's O&M partner handles the system, so there's nothing added to your operations team's workload.
Capital is better spent on room refurbishment, facility upgrades, and guest-experience investment than on generation infrastructure. A PPA delivers the energy benefits without diverting capex from where it drives revenue.
Corporate bookings, conferences, and events increasingly come with sustainability requirements from the booking client. On-site solar provides the verifiable answer to "what's your renewable energy position?"
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Guest experience is the single most important constraint. Everything about how we plan and deliver installs reflects that priority.
Installations are planned around your peak season calendar, typically avoiding summer holidays, Christmas, and any high-occupancy weeks. Shoulder and off-season periods are targeted for the bulk of on-site works.
Construction noise, contractor vehicle access, and visible works have to be contained so they don't affect guest experience. Works are scheduled around quiet hours, guest-facing areas are protected, and visual impact is minimised during occupied periods.
Venues with weddings, corporate events, and private functions have non-negotiable commitments on specific dates. Programme planning integrates with your events calendar so nothing coincides with a booked function.
Heritage hotels and listed buildings have planning and conservation constraints that affect both feasibility and design. We assess planning viability early and avoid committing to designs that won't gain consent.
Leisure facilities have continuous-operation plant that cannot be interrupted. Electrical isolation work for grid connection is coordinated with your engineering team around planned maintenance windows or with temporary backup.
Unlike industrial sites, leisure properties are actively marketed on visual appeal. Panel layouts, cable routing, and rooftop equipment placement are considered for visual impact, particularly on facades visible from guest areas.
Share your site details, seasonal patterns, and event commitments. We'll plan the commercial case and delivery schedule around your operation.
Modern agriculture is an energy-intensive business. Dairy parlours, poultry units, grain drying, horticulture, grading and packing, and cold storage all draw significant electricity, and most of it is daytime demand. Add in the large roof footprints of farm buildings and the availability of land for ground-mounted arrays, and agriculture is often one of the most commercially attractive solar sectors in the UK.
Agricultural operations sit across a wider spectrum of energy profiles than most C&I sectors. A dairy parlour runs continuous refrigeration and daily milking cycles. A poultry unit has steady ventilation and lighting loads year-round. An arable operation has peak demand during grain drying season and lower consumption the rest of the year. Horticulture under glass can have year-round lighting and climate control. Each has a different solar case, and it's worth assessing them individually rather than applying a generic template.
What most agricultural sites share is roof availability. Livestock buildings, grain stores, pack houses, and general farm buildings tend to have large single-storey roof footprints with minimal shading and simple structural profiles, often ideal for rooftop solar at meaningful scale.
Agriculture is also one of the few commercial sectors where ground-mounted solar can be a realistic option. Where a farm has underused land, marginal ground, or areas not suited to intensive cropping, ground-mount systems can host larger installations than roof space alone would allow, and deliver meaningful diversification income alongside on-site generation.
The commercial case varies. Sites with high continuous load (dairy, poultry, horticulture) behave similarly to industrial operations, strong self-consumption, clear PPA economics. Sites with seasonal or lower baseload demand may benefit more from a structure that places greater value on export revenue. We assess this case-by-case rather than pushing a single model.
Agriculture margins are tight and sensitive to input cost inflation. Electricity is a major cost for dairy, poultry, horticulture, and packing operations. A PPA locks in a meaningful share of your electricity cost against further wholesale increases.
Most farms already have substantial roof footprints on livestock sheds, grain stores, and general buildings. This is deployable capacity that costs nothing to unlock, and doesn't remove any productive land.
Where a farm has marginal or underused land, ground-mount solar can host larger systems than rooftops alone. We work with options that complement rather than compete with agricultural production.
Major supermarket suppliers, food processors, and export buyers increasingly require producers to demonstrate verified emissions reduction. On-site solar is a hard, demonstrable answer to those requirements.
Agricultural capital is scarce and competes with livestock, equipment, land, and working capital needs. A PPA delivers the energy benefits without diverting investment from core farm priorities.
For family farms thinking about the next generation, locking in electricity cost certainty for 20 years and reducing carbon exposure ahead of inevitable policy tightening is a practical resilience investment.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Farms are live, operational environments with livestock, seasonal constraints, and specific planning and access considerations. We understand them.
Work on or near livestock buildings requires strict biosecurity protocols and planning that avoids disturbance to animals. Dairy parlour access, poultry ventilation, and disease control boundaries are respected throughout the install.
Agriculture runs to seasonal rhythms that can't be moved, harvest, calving, lambing, drying season. Install programmes are planned around these commitments so they don't clash with peak operational periods.
Rural DNO networks often have constrained capacity, particularly for larger systems or ground-mount arrays. Grid capacity is assessed upfront so we don't commit to sizing that can't be accepted by the DNO.
Rooftop arrays on agricultural buildings often benefit from permitted development, but ground-mount installations typically require planning consent with specific agricultural and landscape considerations. We assess planning viability before proceeding.
Farm sites have storage areas, spreading operations, and chemical handling that affect install routing and timing. We coordinate with your operations to avoid conflicts with slurry spreading, feed deliveries, and other scheduled activities.
Wet ground conditions, harvest access, and weather-dependent operations all affect install scheduling. We plan around weather windows and avoid committing to delivery dates that ground conditions can't support.
Share your operation details, energy use, and land availability. We'll model the commercial case for rooftop, ground-mount, or combined approaches.
Local authorities, NHS trusts, universities, schools, and public bodies face a distinctive combination of pressures, binding net zero commitments, constrained capital budgets, and procurement processes that require transparency and compliance. Solar PPA addresses all three, delivering verified carbon reduction and cost certainty without drawing on capital that's needed for frontline services.
Most UK public sector bodies have declared climate emergencies or committed to net zero by specific dates, often 2030 for local authorities, 2040 for NHS operational emissions. Those commitments are binding in policy terms, reported publicly, and scrutinised by elected members, residents, and media. Delivering against them has become a serious operational priority, not a background sustainability concern.
The challenge is that public sector capital is constrained in ways the private sector isn't. Local authority capital budgets have to balance decarbonisation against social housing, infrastructure, and service delivery. NHS capital is stretched across estates rationalisation, clinical priorities, and backlog maintenance. Universities face competing demands from student experience, research infrastructure, and financial sustainability. There's rarely the headroom to fund generation assets from operating capital.
Public sector estates also tend to be well-suited to solar. Schools, hospitals, council offices, leisure centres, depots, and university buildings frequently have large flat or pitched roofs, predictable daytime occupancy, and high baseload demand from lighting, ICT, HVAC, and catering. Self-consumption rates are often strong because the buildings are in use during exactly the hours solar generates.
PPAs are particularly well-suited to the public sector because they require no capital outlay, create no borrowing pressure, and deliver verified carbon reduction against reportable targets. The commercial structure fits the budgetary context. The question is usually how to procure it compliantly, not whether it makes sense.
A PPA delivers renewable generation without drawing on capital budgets or affecting prudential borrowing limits. The asset sits off-balance-sheet with the funder, not with the public body.
On-site solar generation is a Scope 2 market-based emissions reduction that can be reported directly against declared net zero targets. The data is verifiable and defensible at member scrutiny, audit, and public reporting.
Public sector financial planning cycles benefit from cost certainty. A PPA fixes a meaningful share of electricity cost for 15–25 years, reducing exposure to wholesale volatility and supporting multi-year budget confidence.
PPA arrangements can be procured through recognised public sector frameworks or bespoke compliant routes. We work within the Public Contracts Regulations and can support delivery through the procurement processes your governance requires.
Councillors, trustees, and governors increasingly scrutinise environmental commitments. A PPA with verifiable generation data, transparent commercial terms, and a clear delivery pathway provides the evidence base that scrutiny requires.
Electricity savings from solar generation go directly back to the public body's revenue budget, freeing up funds that can be redirected to the services the organisation exists to deliver.
Projected savings and carbon reductions depend on site-specific factors including consumption profile, grid tariff, system performance, and prevailing market rates. Figures are indicative only.
Public sector projects have distinct procurement, governance, and operational constraints. We understand them and structure delivery to work within them.
Delivery routes are designed to comply with Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 where applicable. We work through recognised frameworks or bespoke compliant procurement as your governance requires.
Schools, hospitals, and care settings have additional safeguarding, DBS, and site access protocols that apply to all contractors. Every installer introduced to public sector projects is briefed on these requirements and operates to them.
Schools close in holidays, hospitals operate 24/7, and council buildings have civic event calendars. Installs are sequenced around these rhythms so disruption to public-facing services is minimised or avoided entirely.
Public sector estates often span dozens or hundreds of buildings. Portfolio rollouts prioritise the strongest commercial sites first, with clear sequencing and reporting that supports internal approvals and member engagement.
Public sector estates often include historic buildings with planning and conservation constraints. Planning viability is assessed before committing to design work, and we avoid pushing projects where consent is unlikely.
Public sector projects often require member engagement, resident consultation, or stakeholder communication. We support the communications workstream with generation data, carbon reduction figures, and project context.
Share your estate data, net zero commitments, and procurement context. We'll propose a compliant delivery route and a commercial case suited to your governance environment.
Different sectors have different energy profiles, operational constraints, and commercial drivers. Our team has deep experience across the sectors where commercial solar delivers the strongest returns, and we understand what makes each one different. Explore the sector that matches your operation for detail on the commercial case, practical considerations, and the questions operators like you typically ask.
Each sector page covers the energy profile, why solar PPA fits, practical installation considerations, and common questions operators ask. Tailored to how each sector actually operates.
High daytime load, extended operating hours, and large roof footprints. Among the strongest commercial solar opportunities in the UK.
Explore manufacturing →Refrigeration-driven baseload, BRC/SALSA audit compliance, and customer Scope 3 pressure. A structurally strong solar fit.
Explore food & beverage →Large roof footprints, portfolio-scale rollout potential, and growing daytime load from MHE and fleet electrification.
Explore logistics →Portfolio deployment across multi-site estates, customer-facing ESG credentials, and margin protection against energy volatility.
Explore retail →Year-round baseload, guest-facing sustainability story, and seasonal delivery planning that protects guest experience.
Explore leisure & hospitality →Roof and ground-mount options, diverse energy profiles across dairy, poultry, and horticulture, and supply chain ESG pressure.
Explore agriculture →Zero-capital route to net zero, compliant procurement frameworks, and budget certainty for multi-year planning.
Explore public sector →We work across commercial and industrial sectors beyond those listed. Get in touch and we'll assess your operation directly.
The MTFD platform is the CRM and toolkit we use internally, and make available to installer and TPI partners. Generate funded quotes in minutes, run development workstreams without leaving the browser, and track every project from enquiry to energised.
Instant PPA and lease quoting, branded proposal generation, e-signature, funder matching.
G99 grid applications, SLD builder, glint & glare assessment, structural intake, data room builder.
Track every project across quote, dev, funding, install, and asset stages in one dashboard.
A real PPA rate from our pricing engine in under a minute.
Configurable term, rate, and residual value options across structures.
Customer-facing PDFs with your logo, ready to send.
Customers accept in-browser, no PDF wrangling or email chains.
Produces DNO-ready connection applications from site inputs.
Drag-and-drop single-line diagram creation with solar components.
Assessment against airfield, roadway, and receptor criteria.
Standardised data capture, report generation to funder standard.
Assemble the 15-category funder DD pack in one place.
Sizing, yield, and self-consumption modelling from consumption data.
Apply for partner access, or book a live demo with our team.
You find the sites and run the installs. We run the funding framework, the development work, and the funder-ready data room. Three ways to engage, one framework, projects that close.
Customers love the savings but can't find the capex, or won't commit the balance sheet. You lose the project or watch it stall for months.
Grid applications, planning, structural, SLDs, glint & glare, every hour you spend on dev work is an hour not installing.
Strong projects die in funder conversations that drag, fragment, or stop in credit committee. Projects that should have built and energised don't, and you wear the client disappointment.
Most partners use all three. Use what fits each project.
You bring the project, we place it with the funder whose pricing methodology, employer requirements, and credit appetite fit best. Proposals are co-branded: your brand customer-facing, MTFD visible as the framework partner. The hard conversations with funders already happened years ago, which is why framework deals close in weeks rather than months.
Once you've identified the site, hand the project over. We'll take it through all 15 RTB workstreams and return a funder-ready data room.
If you have an in-house dev team, use our tools to accelerate them. Partners get access to the same tooling we run internally.
The technical fundamentals don't change between capex and funded projects, a good G99 is a good G99. What changes is the evidentiary, legal, and financial wrapper around the work.
Funders aren't asking "does this project work?" They're asking "can I prove it works to my credit committee for the next 20 years?" That shifts the standard on documentation, legal packaging, and financial modelling, not on the engineering.
None of this is about whether you can do the work. It's about whether the business case for building the capability in-house stacks up when you could run projects through a team that does it every day, against frameworks already agreed with every funder on the panel.
Brokers do valuable work connecting projects to capital, and the best ones build strong funder relationships over years. What we do is different in kind, not in quality. A broker introduces each project to funders and negotiates terms on a deal-by-deal basis. We operate a pre-built framework, commercial terms, documentation templates, credit criteria, and DD standards all agreed with each funder in advance, before any specific project exists.
It's the difference between arranging a one-off deal and running projects through standing infrastructure. A project that would typically take 3–6 months to close through individual negotiation closes in weeks through our framework, because the hard conversations already happened years ago. That compression isn't a margin, it's the thing you're paying for.
Some installers ask whether what we do is the same as broking. It's a fair question and worth addressing properly. Broking and framework development are both legitimate ways to connect projects to capital, they're just different business models, suited to different situations.
A broker works deal by deal. They bring market knowledge, funder relationships, and negotiation skill to each individual project, and the best ones add real value by finding the right home for a deal and getting the terms right. That model works well when projects are bespoke, infrequent, or commercially unusual.
We operate differently. Rather than negotiating each deal from scratch, we've built a standing framework with every funder on our panel, pre-agreed commercial envelopes, standardised documentation, standing credit criteria, and DD packs that map to each funder's specific requirements. It's infrastructure, built over years of delivering projects that don't fail in credit.
Pre-negotiated commercial terms.
The commercial envelope for every deal, rate floors and ceilings, term lengths, covenant thresholds, security requirements, buyout mechanics, was negotiated years ago, for every funder on our panel. A new project slots into a standing template. It doesn't trigger a fresh negotiation.
Standardised documentation.
PPA templates, lease templates, Report on Title templates, EPC contract templates, all agreed with each funder in advance. Legal work on a new project takes weeks because most of it is already done. Outside a framework, you're drafting from scratch and negotiating every clause with a funder's lawyers who have never seen you before.
Standing credit criteria.
We know what each funder will and won't underwrite before a project reaches them, sector appetite, covenant thresholds, geographic preferences, ticket size, technology mix. A project is qualified into the right funder on day one, not shopped around to find one that'll take it.
Continuous deal flow.
Funders prioritise counterparties who bring them consistent volume. A single installer with one project is a cold call. A developer with a rolling pipeline gets attention, priority review, and commercial flexibility an occasional counterparty will never get.
Earned trust.
Framework relationships are built over years of delivering projects that don't fail in credit. That trust is the real asset, it means funders will take our calls, prioritise our deals, and give us the benefit of the doubt on commercial edge cases. It's not transferable and it can't be shortcut.
You can absolutely go direct to a funder, or work with a broker to place a one-off project. Both are valid routes. What we offer is different: a framework that standardises the commercial and legal work before a project exists, so a deal that would take months of individual negotiation closes in weeks. If you've got regular pipeline and want to run it through standing infrastructure, that's what we do.
Quotes show your brand as the customer-facing partner, with MTFD visible as the framework partner.
Auto-generated proposals customers can accept digitally, ready in minutes.
Access every funder on our institutional panel through a single framework relationship.
Our development team acts as an extension of yours for RTB delivery.
The same development tools we use internally, available for your team.
Track every project's status across funding, development, and delivery in one view.
Apply in 5 minutes. Fast onboarding for active installers.
Add funded commercial solar to your advisory offering. Co-branded quoting, commission on execution, and a framework partner running development, funding, and delivery, so you stay the advisor.
Energy costs are on every board agenda. Your clients expect you to have a view on what to do about them. If you don't, someone else will.
Pass the client to an installer or a broker and you've handed them over. They come back with a different trusted advisor, or not at all.
Hiring technical staff, building funder relationships, running development workstreams, none of it fits a consulting or advisory business model.
Your clients are already asking about energy costs. Convert those conversations into funded projects and earn commission on every one.
We arrange funding and develop the project. You keep the client relationship and the commercial upside, without managing installers or funders yourself.
No need to hire technical staff or build a supply chain. Our platform and team do the heavy lifting; you stay advisory.
When an energy conversation comes up with your client, you already know which of their sites are likely solar candidates. We'll help you assess the opportunity before you take the conversation forward.
A PPA rate from our pricing engine within minutes. Inputs verified, rate confirmed, and into your client's proposal.
Once your client accepts, we take the project through development, funding, and delivery. You stay in the client relationship; we handle the operational lift.
Commission paid on project execution. Repeat with the next client.
Quotes show your brand as the client-facing partner, with MTFD visible as the framework partner.
Auto-generated client documents you can issue in hours, not weeks.
Paid on execution. Transparent structure discussed during onboarding.
Every client's project status in one dashboard.
Development, funding, install, asset management, handled by MTFD.
Objection handling, commercial framing, technical Q&A. Available when client conversations get detailed.
TPI isn't one type of business. We work with energy consultancies running portfolios of commercial clients, chartered surveyors and EPC assessors who identify sites through their day-to-day work, engineering consultants who already specify solar in refurbishment projects, and commercial finance brokers adding solar funding to their product suite. Different entry points, same framework.
Apply in 5 minutes. Fast onboarding for active TPIs.
MTFD originates, develops, and structures commercial solar projects to funder-grade standards, then matches them to capital based on your investment criteria. One developer counterparty. One consistent data room.
We filter projects against your specific criteria, ticket size, sector, covenant, geography, technology mix, before they reach your desk.
One developer, one set of executable documents, one standard process. No reintroducing your process to every new counterparty.
Every project arrives with the same 15-category data room, structured around funder DD requirements. Predictable credit review.
Sign a framework agreement covering standard commercial terms, DD scope, and documentation.
Define your investment criteria, ticket size, covenant, sector, geography, tenor, yield.
We surface matched projects as they reach RTB. Structured data room against agreed standards.
Credit review and execution on your process. We support through to asset management handover.
We work with institutional and strategic funders deploying into UK behind-the-meter solar. This includes infrastructure funds, specialist renewables funds, pension and insurance capital, asset finance houses, and strategic corporate balance sheets with a clean energy mandate.
We partner best with funders who:
The quality of the install determines the quality of the asset. Every installer on the MTFD framework is vetted against the same standard, every time.
Every installer on our framework has completed a PAS 91 pre-qualification questionnaire, the standardised construction industry assessment covering competence, capability, financial standing, and quality management.
All installs operate under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015, proper planning, risk assessment, and safety management across every stage of the project.
Installers are briefed on each end customer's operational context before mobilisation, hygiene zones, live yard traffic, customer-facing areas, noise-sensitive hours. Reduces disruption, reduces claims risk.
Request a pipeline review under NDA, or download our framework overview for your investment team. Institutional capital providers interested in framework partnership are welcome to initiate a conversation.
UK commercial landlords control some of the largest unused roof inventories in the country. We provide the framework, delivery, and ongoing management to turn them into a commercial asset, through any of three structured routes, across portfolios of any scale.
For decades, commercial roof space has sat as a non-productive overhead, something to maintain, insure, and eventually replace. That's changing. Rising electricity prices, tenant ESG expectations, MEES regulatory pressure, and growing demand for verified on-site renewable generation have turned roof inventory into a commercial asset that can be monetised, used to improve building ratings, or deployed as a long-term income stream.
The question for landlords is no longer whether to deploy solar on commercial buildings. It's how to structure the arrangement so it works for the landlord, the tenant, and the building itself, without creating complications around lease consents, service charges, EPC methodology, or tenant relationships.
We provide the framework to make that decision simple. Three clearly-structured routes cover the full range of landlord preferences, from hands-off tenant-funded arrangements to full landlord-owned programmes where you deploy capital and own the long-term income stream. Each route has been designed around the practical realities of commercial property management: lease consents, licence to alter, tenant engagement, building insurance, and EPC methodology.
Whatever structure fits your portfolio strategy, we handle the execution, from framework setup through to ongoing O&M and tenant relationship management.
Each route suits a different landlord capital strategy and tenant relationship model. Commercial terms are agreed per engagement.
Your tenant signs a PPA directly with a third-party funder. The funder owns and installs the system, the tenant pays for the electricity generated, and your role is to consent via licence to alter. Zero capital deployment, no ongoing commitment, and you enable the tenant to meet their ESG targets on your building.
You act as the offtaker on a third-party funded PPA, taking the electricity and recharging tenants through the service charge or a separate supply arrangement. You take a margin on the recharge, contribute to EPC improvement, and improve the asset without deploying capital.
You deploy your own capital and own the generation assets outright. We provide the framework, contract templates, tenant engagement process, delivery management, and ongoing O&M, so you can run a portfolio programme without building the capability in-house. You keep the full long-term income stream and the asset enhancement value.
Commercial terms, fees, and structures are agreed per engagement. Outcomes depend on portfolio characteristics, tenant mix, building type, and prevailing market conditions. Obtain independent tax and legal advice before proceeding.
For landlords who want to deploy their own capital and own the long-term income stream, our framework is a mature, mobilisable offer that lets you run a portfolio programme without building in-house capability.
Route 03 is designed for institutional landlords, property funds, and commercial owners who see solar as an opportunity to enhance asset value and add long-dated income to their portfolio, rather than a project to outsource to a third-party funder. Capital is deployed by the landlord, generation assets sit on the landlord's balance sheet, and long-term PPA income flows directly to the owner. We provide the capability layer that makes this runnable at scale.
What we provide.
What you keep.
Running solar across a portfolio is fundamentally different to doing it site-by-site. Portfolio economics unlock opportunities that individual projects can't.
Standardised design, procurement, and delivery across multiple sites reduces per-site cost significantly. Material procurement, installer mobilisation, grid applications, and legal workstreams all benefit from scale.
Individual sites that would be uneconomic on their own can qualify under portfolio-wide commercial terms. A 50 kWp roof that wouldn't justify its own development cost can be included as part of a larger portfolio programme.
One commercial framework covers all sites in the portfolio, with standardised terms, documentation templates, and delivery standards. New sites can be added to the programme without renegotiating the underlying structure.
A single point of contact across the portfolio coordinates sequencing, reporting, and stakeholder management, so you're not managing dozens of independent projects with different teams.
Not every site is a day-one candidate. We assess the portfolio, rank sites by commercial strength, and deliver in waves starting with the strongest cases, so early wins fund later phases and learning is applied across the programme.
Portfolio deals attract better funding terms than site-by-site arrangements. Whether the capital is yours (Route 03) or third-party (Routes 01 and 02), portfolio scale improves commercial outcomes.
Sophisticated owners who understand solar and want a credible delivery partner that can operate at institutional scale. We provide the framework, execution capability, and reporting that institutional governance requires, whether you want third-party funded routes or full landlord-owned programmes.
Private owners with commercial or industrial property who want a straightforward route into solar without becoming solar specialists. We handle the complexity and present the options clearly, so the decision is about capital strategy rather than technical understanding.
Operators of multi-tenanted industrial estates, business parks, and mixed-let buildings where shared infrastructure and diverse tenant mix add complexity. We manage tenant engagement, communal supply arrangements, and multi-occupier PPA structures as part of the standard framework.
Under the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES), commercial properties must currently meet EPC rating E or higher to be let legally. From April 2030, that minimum is expected to rise to EPC B for all commercial lets, and properties below that rating will face letting restrictions unless exemptions apply. For landlords with large portfolios, upgrading buildings to meet the 2030 threshold is a significant undertaking that typically involves fabric improvements, services upgrades, and often renewable generation.
On-site solar can contribute to EPC rating improvement as part of a broader fabric and services strategy, though the relationship between solar and EPC ratings depends on the SBEM methodology applied to each specific building, and solar alone rarely delivers a full rating uplift. We work honestly within the methodology and avoid overclaiming what solar can do for EPC compliance. For most landlords, the practical approach is a combined programme of fabric improvements, efficient services, and on-site generation, sequenced to deliver measurable EPC improvement alongside the direct commercial benefits.
MEES is one of several reasons landlords are acting now, alongside tenant ESG expectations, electricity price volatility, and the commercial attractiveness of long-dated inflation-linked income from generation assets. We can help you integrate solar into a wider portfolio compliance strategy, but we won't pretend it's a silver bullet for ratings that require structural intervention.
Commercial property solar involves workstreams that single-occupier projects don't. We manage them as part of the framework rather than leaving them for the landlord to navigate.
For routes that require tenant cooperation or direct tenant contracting, we handle the engagement, presentation, commercial explanation, and PPA negotiation with tenants on your behalf, without disrupting your commercial relationship.
Every project starts with lease review to confirm the landlord's right to grant consent for the installation. We coordinate licence to alter, deed of variation where required, and any associated property consents.
For landlord-offtaker routes, we structure service charge recharges and electricity recharge arrangements that comply with lease terms, RICS guidance, and tenant expectations.
Every install requires written consent from the building insurer, which we handle as a standard workstream early in the development process rather than as a last-minute blocker.
Portfolios often contain buildings of varying age, condition, and construction type. We commission independent structural surveys for each site and match system designs to actual roof capacity and remaining life.
What happens to the system at end of lease, sale of the building, or end of PPA term is covered in the framework upfront, buyout options, novation to new owners, removal, or transfer all addressed in the contract structure.
Not every roof is ready for solar. Some need refurbishment, some have asbestos that needs specialist handling, some need structural remediation or electrical upgrades before a system can be installed. Where the commercial case works, we can package these works into the framework alongside the solar project, funded through a combination of the PPA rate, the contract term, and appropriate capital structures. The result is a single coordinated programme that delivers both the roof improvement and the solar installation.
Whether you're exploring a single building or a multi-site programme, the conversation starts with understanding your portfolio, your capital strategy, and your objectives.
We develop behind-the-meter solar projects end-to-end, from grid application through to a funder-ready data room. Fifteen categories, one point of contact, one standard.
Every project we deliver is structured against the funder DD checklist. No rework, no gaps, no surprises at credit committee.
Our 15-category scope maps directly to what funders ask for. We've built the process around what closes deals.
Dev manager, engineering, legal, and commercial all in-house. No dropped handoffs between external consultants.
| # | Workstream | What we deliver | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Grid Connection | Connection application, DNO acknowledgement, signed connection offer, proof of payment. | Full pack, no extracts |
| 02 | Planning | Planning consent, prior notification or decision notice, pre-construction conditions discharge. | Conditions discharged before COD |
| 03 | Site Assessment | Site survey report and 12+ months of half-hourly consumption data. | Minimum 12 months HH data |
| 04 | Structural Survey | Structural survey confirming roof capacity, plus condition report covering PPA term. | Roof life ≥ PPA term |
| 05 | Design | Full design deliverables per Employer's Requirements. | ER-compliant |
| 06 | CDM & H&S | Principal Designer review, Construction Phase Plan, RAMS. | CDM 2015 compliant |
| 07 | Programme | Full programme with mobilisation, COD, PAC, and FAC milestones. | All four milestones defined |
| 08 | Legal | Signed HoTs, Report on Title, property consents. | Funder template Report on Title |
| 09 | Insurance Consent | Building insurance consent letter from the insurer. | Written insurer confirmation |
| 10 | Export Metering | MOP confirmation that the meter is export-capable. | Written MOP confirmation |
| 11 | Technical DD | We structure the pack; independent technical DD is commissioned by the funder. | Funder-commissioned |
| 12 | Credit | Fresh CreditSafe or Experian report on the customer. | Report dated within 30 days |
| 13 | Financial Model | Funder's financial model populated with verified project inputs. | Latest version, verified |
| 14 | BESS | Battery sizing and commercial case, where required. | Included if in scope |
| 15 | Executable Docs | PPA, Lease, EPC Contract, OM Contract, 1954 Act Notice (where required). | All docs execution-ready |
We don't just develop to a high standard, we install to one. Every installer on the MTFD framework is vetted to work on live commercial sites.
Every installer on our framework has completed a PAS 91 pre-qualification questionnaire, the standardised construction industry assessment covering competence, capability, financial standing, and quality management.
All installs operate under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015, meaning proper planning, risk assessment, and safety management across every stage of the project.
Installers are briefed on each client's core business activities before they arrive. Hygiene zones, live yard traffic, customer-facing areas, noise-sensitive hours, they work around what matters to the site.
You've identified a building or portfolio that could host solar. We take it from site to RTB and arrange funding.
Bring us a site →You've got the customer and install capability, but not the dev team. Hand the project over at site-identified stage.
Join as an installer →You've got capital looking for deployment. We develop matched projects to your specific criteria.
Partner as a funder →Send us the site details. We'll come back with a development plan and indicative funding terms.
Grid applications, single-line diagrams, glint & glare, structural intake, data rooms, the tools MTFD uses internally, available to installer and TPI partners through the platform.
Every tool on the platform exists because we needed it. We developed them to move faster on our own projects, standardise our output, and produce funder-grade deliverables every time.
We've made them available to partners because the problems are the same. These aren't bolt-on features, they're the core workflow we run commercial solar development on.
Produces DNO-ready G99 connection applications from site and system inputs. Pre-filled forms, supporting documentation, structured submission pack.
Drag-and-drop single-line diagram creation with solar components, annotations, and export formats (PDF, DWG, PNG).
Model reflections against airfield, highway, and receptor criteria, producing planning-submission-ready reports.
Standardised data capture matched to funder DD requirements for roof capacity and condition.
Assemble the full 15-category funder DD pack against a structured checklist. Nothing missed, nothing misfiled.
Upload customer HH consumption data, model on-site solar and battery scenarios, produce sizing outputs.
Request partner access, or book a live demo to see the tools in action.
MTFD exists because commercial solar takes too long to fund, too many hands to develop, and too much friction to execute. We're a developer and funding platform solving that, end to end, on one platform.
The UK has millions of commercial roofs and sites that could host solar. The economics work. The carbon case is clear. But most projects never get built, because the development process is fragmented, the funding market is opaque, and installers, consultants, and energy buyers are left stitching together eight separate relationships to get one project over the line.
We started MTFD to fix that. By bringing development, funding arrangement, and execution onto one platform, and one accountable counterparty, we shorten the path from site identified to system energised.
Brokers pass projects between parties. We own the outcome, development, funding arrangement, and execution are our responsibility.
Funder-grade projects get funded. Every workstream is delivered to the standard funders actually require, not a lower bar.
The same tools we use internally are the ones partners use. Shared toolkit, shared standard.
PPAs last 20 years. We build for relationships that last that long, with partners, customers, and funders.
Commercial solar funding arranged through a framework of institutional funders.
See solutions →A platform partners use to quote, develop, and execute projects end-to-end.
See platform →Get in touch with the team to discuss funding, partnership, or a specific project.
MTFD's core business is arranging funding for and developing commercial solar PPAs. But behind-the-meter energy projects don't always stop at solar, if you've got a wider scope or a different asset class, we review these case-by-case and typically arrange commercial asset finance.
Solar PPAs are the product we've built the business around. The funding terms are standardised, the development process is tight, and the commercial case is repeatable, which is why we can quote in minutes.
Other asset types don't work that way. Every project has a different commercial profile, different funder appetite, and different technical scope. So we review them individually.
Typically, projects outside solar are funded through commercial asset finance or leasing structures rather than PPAs. We'll assess the asset, the customer covenant, the commercial case, and whether our funder panel has appetite, then come back with a structure.
If it works, we develop and arrange funding the same way we'd deliver any other project. If it doesn't, we'll tell you quickly and explain why.
Any behind-the-meter energy asset or clean / renewable technology is on the table for review.
Depot chargers, fleet hubs, workplace charging, destination points. Behind-the-meter and grid-connected.
Air-source, ground-source, and industrial heat pumps. Electrification of heating and hot water loads.
Combined heat and power systems, including gas and biogas where the commercial case stacks up.
Behind-the-meter wind where the site and resource support it. Funded case-by-case.
Lighting upgrades, building controls, HVAC efficiency, projects with measurable payback.
Smaller-scale or location-specific renewable technologies with strong commercial fundamentals.
Send us the project details, asset type, site, customer, commercial parameters, indicative scale.
We assess the commercial case, technical scope, and fit with our funder panel's appetite.
Where it works, we come back with an indicative funding structure, typically commercial asset finance or leasing.
If you go ahead, we develop and arrange funding for the project using our standard delivery process.
Some projects won't make sense for us to fund. If that's the case, we'll tell you quickly and clearly, no drawn-out maybes.
PPAs are a solar-specific product. Other asset types are almost always arranged through commercial asset finance or leasing structures.
Our framework funders each have their own criteria. We'll tell you which route works for your asset and customer profile.
Solar plus EV charging, heat pumps, or efficiency tech, combined scopes often work better than single assets in isolation.
The Other Assets page is about funding, we look at non-solar projects case-by-case and typically arrange commercial asset finance where the commercial case works. If you already know what you want and need a funding route, that's what we do.
But if you're earlier in the process and still deciding which measures make sense for your site, across solar, heat, efficiency, EV, and wider renewables, that's a different conversation. MTFD Energy is our sister service, covering C&I renewable advisory across 29 measures. Independent assessment, measure identification, commercial modelling, and funding route selection across the full spectrum of heat and power options. If you're not yet sure what you need, start there.
Visit MTFD Energy →Tell us about it. If we can arrange funding and develop it, we will. If we can't, we'll tell you quickly.
We work with commercial energy users, installers, TPIs, landlords, and funders. Pick the route that fits you and we'll come back with the right person.
Get a PPA rate for your site or discuss commercial asset finance. Tell us about your building, your consumption, and your timeline.
Get a quote →Release capital, end the O&M burden, and convert to a PPA. We buy existing commercial solar assets from end clients and portfolio operators.
Request a valuation →Three routes to deploy solar across your portfolio, from tenant-funded PPAs to landlord-owned frameworks where you provide the capital and own the long-term income.
Discuss your portfolio →Apply to join as an installer partner. Access funding, development services, and our platform tools.
Apply to join →Add funded solar to your client offering. Earn commission on funded projects.
Partner with us →Request a pipeline review under NDA, or discuss framework partnership.
Request a pipeline review →+44 20 3034 0039
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Case studies, buyer guides, market insights, and FAQs, everything you need to understand how commercial solar funding works, and whether it's right for your business or clients.
Project-by-project breakdowns with capacity, sector, funding structure, and outcomes. Filterable by sector, size, region, and route.
Browse case studies →Definitive guides to PPAs, asset finance, development, and grid connections, written for finance directors and sustainability leads.
Read the guides →Commercial electricity pricing, grid constraints, tax treatment, and the technology developments that matter to C&I.
Read insights →Consolidated answers to the questions partners, customers, and funders ask, searchable and categorised.
Browse FAQs →Our team is happy to walk you through specific questions about your site, your clients, or your pipeline.
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