A new dawn for commercial solar?
Lightweight solar pioneer Solivushas fomed a strategic partnership with Green energy marketplace UrbanChain. Together, the green tech leaders aim to revolutionise the way UK businesses manage, trade, and maximise the value of their roofs and car parks, free from the limitations of the traditional grid.
This partnership enables businesses to generate, share, and trade their energy- not just with the grid, but directly with their own local community or supply chain partners. By linking Solivus-powered solar to UrbanChain’s energy-sharing market, large-scale property owners, such as private companies, local authorities and social housing providers, can retain more value from their renewable generation, reduce costs, and create their own self-sustaining energy ecosystems. UrbanChain’s blockchain technology ensures traceability- allowing businesses to prove where their energy comes from and sell it directly to their other sites, local businesses, or supply chain partners at the best market rates.
The revolutionary method also means that commercial businesses can transfer surplus energy between buildings at minimal cost, enabling multiple properties to reduce energy bills while advancing decarbonisation efforts.
For Solivus, the partnership marks a major milestone in its journey and has the potential to revolutionise the scale and pace of commercial solarisation in the UK. Solivus will work with partners to deliver not only their lightweight solar solutions but conventional solar and solar carports enabling the UK to maximise the solar on the built environment, something Solivus CEO Jo Parker-Swift is very passionate about.
"Empowering large-scale commercial enterprises to self-generate is a crucial step in achieving net zero. While many businesses can generate far more energy than they use, the low rates to sell back to the grid are not financially viable. This surplus energy low grid price has been a problem that Solivus has grappled with for a few years. So we are thrilled to be collaborating with Urban Chain to overcome this challenge for our clients. This creates a significant opportunity, not just in terms of profitability and carbon reductions but the wider energy transition," said Jo Parker-Swift, CEO and founder of Solivus. “This strategic partnership is a crucial step towards solving this challenge - enabling our customers to not only meet their own energy needs but start making money from their roofs. It’s an incredibly advanced system that is better for businesses, their bottom line, and the planet while helping to lay the foundations for the transition to a net-zero economy.”
Solivus also has additional partnerships to enable finance for those clients who do not wish to have a large capital outlay to unlock this significant opportunity. These finance solutions enable clients to choose if they wish the solar assets to be on their balance sheet or not.
Solivus will hold customers’ hands through the whole process ‒ from developing the specific business case for each customer over multiple large scale property assets and deploying the digitally-enabled solar system through to taking care of any battery storage requirements and energy trading. Solivus are known for collaboration and keeping things straight forward for customers.
Commenting on the partnership, CEO Somayeh Taheri says UrbanChain isn’t ‘just another energy supplier.
“This partnership is a transformational unlock—turning underutilised rooftops into powerful revenue-generating energy hubs. By scaling solar beyond single-site solutions, we’re enabling large property owners to take control of their energy future, reduce reliance on volatile energy markets, and drive decarbonisation at scale.
“UrbanChain are scaling across this market through partnerships, driving solutions for communities and companies.
Through local energy markets, businesses can directly share energy across their portfolios, communities, or with their supply chain, maximising value while accelerating the transition to net zero. This is where innovation meets execution—delivering a scalable, commercially viable model that works today and grows for the future.”
