The right starting point is a site assessment — not a specification sheet. Most commercial and industrial properties qualify; the question is which system combination fits the specific site.
The question of whether a specific property qualifies for HNordic's energy infrastructure programme does not have a clean universal answer — because suitability depends on a combination of factors: electricity demand, site configuration, grid connection, planning position, and structural conditions. What can be stated with reasonable confidence is the class of properties that typically qualify and the factors that typically disqualify.
The site assessment is the definitive test. It takes one conversation to establish whether a property belongs in the programme and what the right system looks like.
Industrial warehouses and logistics facilities are the most common property type in HNordic's portfolio. They combine high electricity demand (racking systems, forklifts, refrigeration, lighting, EV fleet charging), large roof areas suited to both solar and wind installation, and planning environments that typically accommodate infrastructure without significant constraint.
Light manufacturing and processing sites qualify where electricity demand is significant and relatively predictable — which is most light manufacturing environments. Compressor loads, CNC machinery, production line draw, and climate control create the demand profile that makes battery peak shaving and grid-services participation economically material.
Multi-tenanted commercial buildings — offices, trade parks, business parks — qualify where there is a meaningful common-area electrical load and where the landlord holds the energy supply responsibility (rather than individual tenants being direct electricity contract holders). Rooftop space for wind and solar generation is the secondary constraint.
Single-tenanted commercial premises — a single large occupier on an industrial estate, a distribution centre, a retail warehouse — are often straightforward sites: one demand profile, one grid connection, one decision-maker.
Residential properties — HNordic does not operate in the residential sector. The energy infrastructure programme is designed for commercial and industrial assets.
Properties with no meaningful electricity demand — a storage facility with minimal electrical load, an undeveloped land bank, a building in active redevelopment. The financial case for battery storage and generation requires electricity consumption to optimise against. A property drawing 50 kWh/day is not the right environment for a system designed around a commercial electricity profile.
Sites where planning consent is structurally unachievable — listed buildings where any exterior installation is prohibited, conservation areas where turbines are excluded by local planning policy, sites with restrictive covenants that prohibit the installation of energy infrastructure. These are site-specific questions that the planning assessment at the site assessment stage will identify.
Grid connections already fully committed — where the existing grid connection is already operating at or near its maximum agreed supply capacity and the behind-the-meter battery approach cannot be accommodated within the existing connection parameters. This is rare but site-specific.
A property that typically progresses to a proposal has:
Wind generation adds a further condition: the roof or site must be structurally capable of supporting the turbine mounting load, and the local planning policy must permit a turbine of the relevant height. Solar adds a roof-orientation and shading condition. These are assessed in the site assessment and do not need to be pre-evaluated by the property owner.
The initial assessment does not require physical access to the site. It covers:
From this, HNordic produces a specific proposal: the system, the expected financial outcomes (operating cost reduction, energy income, EPC improvement), and the infrastructure investment. No obligation arises from the assessment.
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