Energy Transition

We help clients develop and commercialise their energy transition opportunities and close transactions, across a range of low carbon technologies.

Investing in ‘place-based’ solutions is the most economic pathway to achieving the UK government’s net zero target by 2050. These initiatives result in integrated approaches that involve smarter, flexible energy systems which span multiple vectors such as heat, power, waste, transport, and building efficiency. However, such complex approaches are both commercially and financially challenging.

We are the first practice in the sector to offer comprehensive commercial and financial advisory (and modelling) solutions, which combines industry experience with our financial expertise well-established across the infrastructure sector, to develop and commercialise your decentralised energy opportunities and close the transaction, to get “assets in the ground”. We have a unique depth of expertise across the public and private decentralised energy sectors, including direct involvement with a wide array of investors.

90+

Decentralised Energy at Amberside Advisors

projects completed in decentralised energy

Heat networks (district energy)

We are the leading commercial and financial advisors to support numerous greenfield and brownfield projects and transactions in district energy, utilising our team’s deep commercial understanding and industrial experience. Amongst other exciting projects, we have recently been appointed to DESNZ’ Heat Network Zoning Framework.

Energy from waste

Leveraging our deep sector-specific expertise in Energy from Waste (EfW), we have worked on 47% of transactions in the UK's waste market. Being recognised as experts in this space, we are very well placed to advise clients interested in EfW and similar technologies such as anaerobic digestion, biogas etc., helping them take full advantage of growing regulatory support and increasing demand for sustainable solutions.

Our clients

“We engaged Amberside Advisors to provide us with acquisition support of a large-scale anaerobic digestion plant in Northern Ireland. Amberside team were able to navigate through the complexity of the transaction and model challenging financial concepts to give us confidence in the asset’s valuation. They were able to understand the key issues that arose and identified matters that supported our interest.”

Bio Capital, Director

Project examples

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Amberside Advisors secures appointment for Heat Network Zoning Framework

Amberside Advisors and Steer are pleased to announce the successful outcome of their bids for the Heat Network Zoning Framework from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). We are proud to have been selected across three key areas of the framework, making significant step forward for our Energy Transition team.

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Amberside Advisors supporting bidders for Bristol City Leap project

Bristol City Leap is an innovative partnership between Bristol City Council and Ameresco Ltd which will accelerate green energy investment in Bristol and help towards decarbonising the whole city. Over the next five years, Bristol City Leap will invest nearly £500 million into low carbon energy infrastructure, such as solar, wind, heat networks, heat pumps and energy efficiency measures.

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Cranfield University’s Sustainable Energy Transformation

Cranfield University has devised an Environmental Strategy that includes a goal of achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2030. Additionally, the university has been closely monitoring developments in the UK’s “Energy Transition” and the growing emphasis on Smart Local Energy Systems (SLES) in government policy.

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