Commenting on the Government’s announcement of the Seventh Carbon Budget announced today (2 June 2026), off-grid renewable power and lighting expert, John Foster, Managing Director, Prolectric said:
The Government’s ambitious commitment to cut the UK’s climate emissions by 87% by 2040, today sends a clear signal to industry that the shift away from diesel reliance is accelerating at pace, with increased pressure to move away from polluting fossil fuels towards lower-risk, lower-emission power solutions.
As Britain faces its second fossil fuel shock in a decade, the case for clean power becomes increasingly sharp for businesses seeking greater cost certainty and energy resilience. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said today, the drive for clean homegrown power is “the only” way to protect family and business finances – and we would add that for UK site operators, renewable power needs the same focus, as part of a company’s robust operational risk strategy. In many organisations, renewable and solar energy adoption is treated as an isolated tick-box sustainability exercise, but critically we need to view off-grid as protecting cost risk, while improving energy resilience across our UK temporary and remote sites.
For equipment hire companies, there is now an even stronger commercial opportunity to frame the business case for solar as business continuity and a cost-control solution, not just the deployment of sustainable products and clean energy strategies. Against a backdrop of fuel volatility and increased financial and operational pressure to deliver, the construction sector can no longer afford to treat renewable site power as a future aspiration, off-grid renewable energy is rapidly becoming “the only way” to future-proof for resilient and efficient project delivery.
