Fine Energy

What Fine Energy does

Fine Energy Operations Limited is a UK-based renewable energy company founded in 2010 in Birmingham by Graham Hygate, a physicist with prior experience at Logica, Oracle, Charteris and Detica. The company develops, owns and operates small and medium-scale wind turbine installations across the UK, with a secondary office in Edinburgh opened in 2012 to serve the Scottish market and engineering reach into Italy through the Windbase joint venture.

The core business model is asset-light land rental: Fine Energy identifies suitable wind sites using a proprietary GIS capability and 25 years of internal wind data, secures planning permission, installs turbines on rented land, and operates them for roughly 20-year contractual lifetimes while paying landowners guaranteed annual rent plus a yield-dependent bonus. Generation revenue comes from electricity sales and Feed-in Tariffs, supplemented by specialist engineering services to small wind operators (Windbase JV) and a retrofit remote-monitoring product called Osmium, originally developed for wind turbines and in customer use since 2019.

Fine Energy operates as the authorized UK land rental partner for Endurance Wind Power and a development partner for Norvento Wind Energy UK, with documented projects including 10 small-scale turbines on Orkney Islands exceeding performance targets and two 100 kW Norvento nED100 turbines at Shoreham Port (planning granted March 2015) expected to generate approximately 555,000 kWh per year. The company is privately held, has no disclosed external funding rounds, is estimated at 1-10 employees, and serves landowners and farmers as its primary segment with secondary work for ports, commercial properties and communities.

Name

Fine Energy

Legal name

Fine Energy Operations Limited

Website

https://fineenergy.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fine Energy is a UK-based developer, owner and operator of small and medium-scale wind turbines that rents land from landowners for 20-year installations, with engineering services (Windbase JV) and a retrofit industrial monitoring product (Osmium).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Small-Scale Wind Energy Development

NAICS

Wind Electric Power Generation (221115)

SIC

Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (4991)

akta.pro primary industry

Wind Farm Ownership & Operations (IPP/Utility-Owned Asset Operations) (EUACAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wind Farm Development & Permitting (Greenfield/Brownfield) (EUACAFAE), Community & Distributed Wind Power Generation (Behind-the-Meter/Small Wind) (EUACAFAD), Wind Operations, Maintenance & Asset Management (Scheduled/Unscheduled) (EUAMACAH), Wind Resource Assessment & Energy Yield Analytics (Met Masts, LiDAR, Modeling) (EUAMACAJ)

Keywords

• Small-scale wind energy
• Wind turbine site development
• Remote turbine monitoring
• Land rental wind agreements
• Distributed renewable generation

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Land Rental Agreements: Fine Energy rents small parcels of land from landowners for 20 years to install and operate wind turbines. Landowners receive guaranteed annual rental income with no investment required, plus potential yield-dependent bonus. Energy is fed into local distribution networks.
2. Wind Turbine Operations: Ownership and operation of small-scale wind turbines generating renewable energy. Revenue comes from Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) and electricity generation sales.
3. Engineering Services (Windbase JV): Through joint venture Windbase, provides specialist engineering support to wind turbine owners and maintenance partners in UK and Italy.
4. Osmium Monitoring Service: Retrofit control and monitoring service for industrial equipment, helping reduce downtime, minimize maintenance costs and extend plant lifetime. Used since 2019.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fine Energy generates renewable energy by owning and operating small-scale wind turbines on rented parcels of UK farmland, paying landowners guaranteed annual rent for 20 years with no upfront investment. It also develops sites for partner manufacturers Endurance Wind Power and Norvento, sells Osmium retrofit remote monitoring and control for industrial equipment, and runs the Windbase joint venture providing specialist engineering and maintenance support to small wind turbine owners in the UK and Italy.

Product overview

Fine Energy operates as a renewable energy company offering a portfolio of wind energy products and services. The core offerings include: Osmium, a remote monitoring and control service for industrial equipment originally developed for wind turbines; and Windbase, a joint venture providing specialist engineering support for small-scale wind turbines. The company focuses on distributed wind energy, developing sites for small and medium-scale wind turbines, and offers land rental arrangements to landowners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Osmium A retrofit control and monitoring service for industrial equipment including wind turbines that enables owners and engineers to access installations remotely, issue commands, push firmware updates and review diagnostic and performance information. It is designed to reduce downtime, minimise maintenance costs and extend plant lifetime and is offered as a standalone product via osmium.app.
• Windbase engineering support service A joint venture (Windbase) co-founded by Fine Energy that delivers specialist engineering support to owners of small-scale wind turbines and to their local maintenance partners in the UK and Italy.
• Wind energy generation under land rental agreements A 20-year land rental arrangement where Fine Energy installs, owns and operates small or medium-scale wind turbines on rented parcels of land while landowners receive guaranteed annual rent with no upfront investment and can share in Feed-in Tariff income and use generated electricity at a discount.

Quantifiable outcome

• 555,000 kWh per year estimated generation for Shoreham Port project
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Norvento Wind Energy UKcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2015Fine Energy develops wind energy sites for Norvento and worked on the Shoreham Port project installing two nED100 100kW turbines. Norvento views the project as a flagship development in the UK. Norvento offers turbines without need for external investors through Fine Energy's land rental model.
• Endurance Wind PowercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCanadian wind turbine manufacturer retained Fine Energy to acquire and develop sites for its medium-scale wind turbines in the UK. Fine Energy is an authorized Endurance land rental partner. Manufacturer backed Fine Energy in expanding administration and GIS teams.
• WindbasecoreOthersJoint venture company providing specialist engineering support to small-scale wind turbine owners and their local maintenance partners in UK and Italy. Fine Energy co-founded this joint venture.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Good Energy: UK renewable electricity supplier that sources from its own and third-party distributed generators. Comparable in its focus on small and community-scale generation, including support for community energy projects.
• RES (Renewable Energy Systems): One of the world's largest renewable energy developers, with a substantial onshore wind development and O&M business. Comparable wind industry activities but at a vastly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• SSE Renewables: Major UK and Ireland wind farm developer and operator, part of SSE plc. Overlaps with Fine Energy in onshore wind generation but operates at utility scale with very different capital structure.
• Ecotricity: UK green energy utility operating wind farms and supplying renewable electricity. Overlaps with Fine Energy's wind generation activity but at much larger, utility-scale, and serves retail customers as well.

Direct peers

• B9 Energy: Northern Ireland-based renewable energy developer and operator with a portfolio spanning wind and other technologies. Direct competitor in UK and Ireland small-to-medium scale wind project development and O&M.
• Norvento: Manufacturer of medium-scale wind turbines (including the nED100 used at Shoreham Port). Fine Energy develops sites for Norvento in the UK, so they are commercial partners competing together in the UK distributed-wind value chain.
• Endurance Wind Power: Canadian manufacturer of small and medium-scale wind turbines. Fine Energy is its authorized UK land-rental partner, making them channel partners that jointly compete in the UK small-wind market against other turbine vendors and developers.
• Windbase: Joint venture co-founded by Fine Energy providing specialist O&M engineering for small-scale wind turbines in the UK and Italy. Although related, it is the closest comparable specialist small-wind services business in the company's footprint.
• Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative: UK community-owned wind farm operator using a co-operative structure. Comparable to Fine Energy's distributed/community wind model, focused on landowner and community participation in wind generation.

Emerging players

• Infinergy: UK developer focused on small and medium-scale wind and renewable projects. Closely comparable to Fine Energy in scale, technology focus, and project size profile.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fineenergy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fine-energy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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