Land & Estate Owners

Making the most of Available Resources

As a manager or owner of an estate, you need to make the best use of the resources you have available, as well as insulating your business from sudden energy market shocks. For families who have owned an estate for hundreds of years, sustainability is often core to what they do. These are the reasons why some estates have invested in renewable energy already, for example, using their own wood in a biomass boiler to displace oil for heating.

Rising Energy Costs

But what of the future? As we come out of recession, oil and electricity prices are set to rise. As energy prices rise, so too, will fertiliser prices (since the main raw ingredient for nitrogen fertiliser is natural gas). There will be short term volatility in the energy market exposing the estates community to real commercial risks.

Susenco is ready to invest in projects which are worthwhile (in terms of carbon reduction) and which are commercially viable

Belvoir Estate

Susenco has been working for the Belvoir Estate to develop and deliver a strategy to insulate the estate from rising energy prices, exploit the resources available, and move the estate towards zero net Carbon emissions. 

When this strategy is delivered the estate will move from a signifcant cost exposure to energy, to making as much money from energy as it currently does from farming. We are now working for a number of estates on:

• Carbon footprinting the whole estate (including buildings, vehicles and land management activities)
• Strategy development
• Energy efficiency measures including lighting and insulation
• Meeting planning requirements for low carbon new build
• Biomass heating and supply of woodchip from its own estate
• Wind power generation
• Micro-hydro
• Anaerobic digestion

As members of the CLA, the NFU and HHA, we are supportive of the good work they are doing in making estates aware of the risks and opportunities, as well as the lobbying work they are engaged in to create the right investment framework. Susenco can add the commercial advice to deliver successful and profitable results. 

Investment Opportunities 

Susenco is ready to invest in projects which are worthwhile (in terms of carbon reduction) and which are commercially viable. Importantly we can offer customers the support to meet their specific needs, from sharing risk & reward to situations where we take the risk and provide the client with a rental income, or low cost energy, for the use of their land/site. This enables Susenco to meet the requirements of any client who wants to locate renewable generation on their site.

We would be glad to talk to you about your unique circumstances. Click here for our contact details.

Our Approach

Susenco provides services to a wide range of customers from small farms to large corporate organisations.

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