px Group, the leading infrastructure solutions business and operator of several critical UK energy sites, has launched a brand new business, px Energy Solutions which will partner with business customers to optimise their energy assets and decarbonise their activities.

px Group has been helping major energy plants and industrial sites decarbonise and improve efficiency for over 30 years, mainly through O&M (Operations & Maintenance) contracts. px Energy Solutions, however, will now bring that expertise to businesses of all sizes that are looking to use energy more efficiently and decarbonise.

Christine McKie, MD, px Energy Solutions MD said, “I am extremely excited to be leading px Energy Solutions on our mission to bring decarbonisation to the wider UK business community. Businesses know they need to decarbonise; they know that doing so positively affects their bottom lines; but they often need support identifying the best way to do so. That’s where we come in.”

UK businesses are responsible for almost 20% of total UK emissions. px Energy Solutions is taking its experience in optimising and decarbonising large energy-intensive assets in the energy supply and manufacturing industries (two of the three largest contributors to UK emissions) and using that to help the wider business community reduce its carbon footprint and improve energy efficiency and reliability, thereby improving business performance.

px Energy Solutions will provide: bespoke energy solutions that suit customers’ business requirement, setting itself apart from the larger competitors that take a one-size-fits-all, sales-first approach.

The new business will offer four core business services, which can be provided individually or as part of an all-in-one package: Energy Optimisation; Decarbonisation; Energy as a Service; and Digital Transformation.

px Energy Solutions’ is led by Managing Director Christine McKie who has been with px Group for nearly 25 years and has extensive energy industry experience in project development, industry regulation, trading and risk management. Driving the team alongside Christine is Business Development Director Stuart Metcalfe who joined px Group from Veolia this year and brings with him over 25 years of business development experience in heavy industry applications, with the last 9 years working within the embedded generation area of the industrial energy sector.

Geoff Holmes, CEO, px Group said, “We have been accelerating both our organic and acquisitive growth, and today’s launch of px Energy Solutions is the next step of the growth strategy.”

“Today’s launch caps off a fantastic first half of the year for px Group, which has involved an acquisition of renowned Fairport Engineering and our first major operational step into continental Europe,” added Holmes.