- New team follows influx of high-value data centre contract wins
- Customers rate firm’s expertise, transparency, added value services and choice
- Leep also increases customers’ revenue by repurposing waste heat for local networks
Following several high-profile data centre contract wins, Leep Utilities – one of the UK’s leading owners and operators of last-mile utility networks – has launched a specialist extra high voltage (EHV) team.
Leep is now better equipped than ever to provide global data centre operators, and other higher consumption industrial and commercial users, with utility grid connections, 132kV networks and smart battery energy storage solutions for local heat networks.
The firm owns, operates, and manages every electrical element – from the point of connection to the metering position and beyond – for the entire length of contract.
Leep is also enabling data centre owners to increase their revenue, and sustainability credentials, by repurposing their waste heat to power local heat networks – reducing grid requirements and, crucially, improving their energy efficiency.
Matt Ling, Director of Business Development at Leep Utilities, said: “Our success with EHV customers is founded on the team’s expertise and the many added value services we provide. Through early engagement, a holistic consultative approach and seeking out value in the supply chain – thanks to the transparency that our adoption-only model affords – we’re able to help high consumption users to operate most cost-efficiently and cost-effectively, all with the support of our in-house legal team.
“An often-cited frustration amongst EHV operators is the inflexibility of specification of network components, which can create blockages and inefficiencies. As an Independent Distribution Network Operator (IDNO), Leep offers much greater flexibility, on the likes of electric plant and design, to provide bespoke solutions that best meet their needs, and at the best prices and timings. By separating Asset Adoption Value payments from design and build costs, we yet further maximise the supply chain, often at a critical cashflow juncture.
“The UK data centre industry continues to rapidly evolve and the surge in its demand is unprecedented. We’re already a proven electricity supplier of choice to a number of the biggest global brands and we’re now very much looking forward to further increasing our footprint and credentials with a dedicated expert team in place and many added value benefits that our customers are loving.”
For more information, email ehv@leeputilities.co.uk or visit https://www.leeputilities.co.uk.
For further information, please contact Karen Winstanley or Ana Botoser on
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Notes to Editors:
Leep Utilities was formed as a joint venture between Ancala Partners LLP (‘Ancala’), an independent investment management firm and The Peel Group, one of the UK’s leading private real estate investment and infrastructure companies.
With offices in Salford and Reading, Leep Utilities owns and operates regulated and non-regulated utility networks, including electricity, cold and hot water, heating and cooling with a portfolio of sites across the country, including Media City, Liverpool Waters and Canary Wharf.
Leep provides flexible last-mile utility solutions to UK developers, contractors and consultants – whether that’s for new residential, commercial and mixed-use developments – to adopt electricity, water, wastewater or heating networks, or a combination of them all.
