About Us
We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone.
Vision and Values
Our vision and values define who we are; helping us achieve our purpose-led objectives that put customers, community, and the environment at the heart of what we do.
Accreditations
We strive for excellence in every facet of our business, reflected by the range of best-practice certifications that underline our commitments to quality, safety, and sustainability.
An independent energy infrastructure and solutions provider, we work uniquely with stakeholders across the full spectrum of energy generation, supply, and consumption.
Our vision and values define who we are, helping us realise purpose-led objectives that put customers, community, and the environment at the heart of what we do.
Meet the senior management and leadership team that drives SMS forward – nurturing around them the talent, knowledge and skills that provide the fundamental platform for our services.
The enduring relationships we enjoy with our clients and partners are testament to our commitment to providing sustainable, innovative, and forward-thinking energy solutions.
We strive for excellence in every facet of our business, reflected by the range of best-practice certifications that underline our commitments to quality, safety, and sustainability.
Having served the UK utility industry, industrial & commercial, and public sectors for more than 25 years, our case studies highlight our leading role in the ongoing energy transition.
Solutions
We provide the complete energy solution. From energy infrastructure that enables more sustainable homes and businesses, to the integrated energy management and project delivery critical for carbon reduction.
Metering
Through our integrated metering solutions, we manage over 4 million assets on behalf of energy suppliers and business customers, covering the industrial, commercial, and domestic markets.
Data
Industry-leading data collection, settlement and software solutions for gas and electricity supplies help our customers improve insight and efficiencies and enable greater energy sustainability.
We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better; helping achieve a greener, more sustainable energy system for everyone.
Our design, engineering, and project management experts deliver the critical utility infrastructure that keeps our homes and businesses sustainably powered.
Our expert multi-utility team provides a fully-managed service to ensure the successful and timely installation of electricity, gas, and water infrastructure to your sites.
We are a specialist, end-to-end power management partner for the UK telecoms industry, from feasibility studies and wayleaves, through to grid connection and metering services.
Through our integrated metering solutions, we manage over 4 million assets on behalf of energy suppliers and business customers, covering the industrial, commercial, and domestic markets.
As an accredited meter asset provider (MAP), operator (MOP), manager (MAM), we deliver the expert solutions that energy suppliers need to generate value and meet mandated rollout targets.
We partner directly with business energy users and third party intermediaries (TPIs), providing the expert metering services required to reduce consumption, costs, and carbon emissions.
Are you a homeowner or tenant looking for more information on smart meters? Get the lowdown on how your smart meter can help cut energy bills and contribute to a greener world.
Our smart meter lab facility provides a bank of 200+ live meters for energy suppliers and other industry partners, providing assurance, device combination proving, and over-the-air (OTA) testing.
Our national dual fuel academy delivers accredited gas and electric training and assessment for professionals looking to gain qualifications or upskill in the domestic and commercial sectors.
Industry-leading data collection, settlement and software solutions for gas and electricity supplies help our customers improve insight and efficiencies and enable greater energy sustainability.
We cover every aspect of your half-hourly (HH) and non-half-hourly (NHH) electricity data needs, from meter operation (MOP) to data collection (DC) through to ongoing energy management.
Our gas solutions provide suppliers and business consumers with the data required to cut operational costs and carbon emissions.
Our intelligent energy management platform, SmartVision, gives you clear visibility of your entire energy portfolio, helping turn your data into energy saving insights.
Our Energy Services team provides business energy solutions and strategic carbon reduction projects, helping your organisation realise its sustainability objectives.
Our net zero consultants offer strategic guidance – based on a full energy audit of your estate – to help establish a clear business roadmap to low emissions.
We design, develop, and deliver your carbon reduction projects and renewable energy solutions, including technology procurement, installation, and asset management.
Through expert analysis of your business energy data, we provide bespoke reporting, insights and recommendations on your energy costs, consumption, and carbon emissions performance.
We help you optimise your energy strategy and minimise your exposure to risk through our energy procurement, bill validation, and treasury services.
The cloud-based software that communicates with, monitors and controls a range of distributed energy resources (DERs) to create smart, flexible local energy systems.
Delivering an end-to-end smart data and aggregation solution that enables suppliers and energy technology businesses to participate in National Grid ESO’s Demand Flexibility Service.
Sustainability
We are committed to improving our impacts on the environment, our communities, and wider society around us through responsible operations and best-practice corporate governance.
Sustainability
Our Sustainability Report provides detailed disclosure on the practical steps we are taking to progress Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibilities within our business.
Net Zero
We’re committed to achieving carbon neutrality across our organisation by the end of this decade, steered by our Net Zero 2030 roadmap.
Browse our annual Sustainability Report to find out more about our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy.
Find out more about our efforts to reach net zero carbon emissions across our business by the year 2030.
We work with ratings agencies and utilise ESG reporting standards and frameworks to communicate and benchmark our performance.
Insights

Careers
Our people are the beating heart of our business. That’s why our philosophy is to always put our people first, defined by our well-established culture of high performance, reward and engagement.
Our Culture
We provide our teams with work-life balance and flexibility, whilst fostering an open and honest workplace culture that celebrates diversity and promotes wellbeing.
Careers
Work for a sustainable organisation that prioritises the employee experience. View our current vacancies and apply for your next exciting career move today!
We strive for sustainability in everything we do, including the cultivation of a positive, diverse, and inclusive working environment which attracts, retains, and develops our people.
Work for a sustainable organisation that prioritises the employee experience. View our current vacancies and apply for your next exciting career move today!
Home to over one hundred and sixty-five businesses, it has successfully commissioned a series of five rooftop solar PV systems funded by SMS (formerly Horizon Energy Ventures). This completed the rollout of the project on time and on budget with our expert partners, Perfect Sense Energy and GreenHearth.
                   
The project was carried out without upfront capital expenditure across multiple buildings with complex ownership structures. It began as a single building initiative but quickly evolved into a broader programme, with several buildings across the park proving suitable for rooftop solar installations. Each site contributes to a growing clean energy footprint already benefiting both the landlord, occupiers and the environment.
The successful energisation demonstrates how tailored funding and collaborative partnerships can overcome complex ownership structures to deliver impactful results and enable estates to decarbonise at scale.

 
This project strengthens Birchwood Park’s long-term energy resilience and reinforces our commitment to leading on sustainability. By cutting energy costs for our occupiers and reducing our carbon footprint via SMS, we’re proving that commercial performance and low-carbon ambition go hand in hand. It’s a major step forward for the park and a model we intend to build on.
Birchwood Park’s core objectives were to reduce carbon emissions and energy costs for occupiers from day one. Working with Perfect Sense Energy, a robust technical solution was developed for five buildings at the heart of the park. Perfect Sense Energy introduced GreenHearth, a specialist arranger of finance for solar projects, to undertake the economic and financial analysis.
GreenHearth approached a range of potential funders for the proposed system to identify the best solution for the customer. We were able to offer a compelling and competitive finance solution and had the expertise to work with the complex ownership structure of the park and its buildings to ensure success.
 
The key to delivering the customer’s vision was the combination of a first-class technical solution from Perfect Sense Energy with the deep industry understanding and commercial flexibility of the SMS Low Carbon team.
Delivering solar across a complex multi-building estate like Birchwood Park demands technical certainty, financial clarity and a genuinely collaborative team. Perfect Sense Energy engineered a robust solution, GreenHearth provided the financial confidence, and SMS Low Carbon brought the flexible funding needed to make it happen. The result is a scalable model that cuts costs and carbon from day one – exactly what commercial business parks need to move decisively toward net-zero.
Leveraging our proven finance lease model, we’re funding the full cost of the rooftop solar installation. The model offered Birchwood Park:
This financing approach lowered barriers to adoption and supported Birchwood Park’s broader sustainability ambitions.
 
The approach to Birchwood Park provides a replicable blueprint for other estates and stands as a strong example of the viability of financed solar PV implementation across commercial property portfolios, strengthening ESG credentials and long-term energy cost reduction and resilience.
The project underlines how flexible finance, trusted partnerships, and strategic vision can empower commercial estates to move decisively toward net-zero.
 
A funded solar PV project where savings exceed rental payments creates a win-win: customers enjoy immediate cost reductions with zero upfront investment, and partners face lower barriers to securing projects and driving adoption. We were thrilled to work with Perfect Sense Energy, GreenHearth and Birchwood Park on this exciting project.
In parallel, Birchwood Park and our partners are exploring further rollout opportunities across the estate.
The replicable model proven here will also be applied to similar portfolio-level projects across other commercial and leisure sites, establishing a clear blueprint for scalable, low-carbon estate transformation.
 
We specialise in funding low-carbon energy assets, from solar and EV infrastructure to heat pumps and battery storage. Working closely with our partners, we empower businesses to adopt low-carbon solutions. If your estate is ready to decarbonise, our team is here to help.
 
Want to find out how we can help you? Get in touch with our expert team today.
David McCoubrie, Head of Sales, Low Carbon
Email:  david.mccoubrie@smsenergy.com                        Tel :  07917 053 743
 
 
REMeDY (Revolution in Energy Market Design) is a net zero innovation project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and led by Southend-on-Sea City Council which aims to bring affordable, low-carbon energy to residents and businesses using a Smart Local Energy System (SLES).
Working with tech giant, Samsung, heat industry disruptors, BOXT, and local council partners, Oxfordshire County Council, Clean Heat Streets is a Government-funded innovation project which aims to show how optimised installation of domestic heat pumps can reduce the complexity and costs of the technology for end consumers.
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