RENEWABLES company Sinewave has appointed Mintivo as its strategic IT partner to help reach its £100 million turnover target within five years.
The Swindon-based independent connection provider designs and builds electrical infrastructure solutions for major EV charging stations, Renewable sites and has more than 2,500 maintenance sites across the UK, including supermarkets, factories and battery storage sites.
Sinewave CEO Adam Woodley said the nine-year-old company chose Chippenham-based Mintivo, which offers managed IT support, consultancy, cyber security and automation, because of its track record in helping companies push their boundaries through strategic IT development.
“We need an IT partner who is going to push us to make sure that we’re at the top of our game and that we’re not falling behind the competition,” he said. “Having someone that’s agile, forward thinking, also growing and can understand us as a business is really important.
Sinewave, which became B-Corp certified in 2022, is one of the top UK companies helping lead the charge into renewable energy and its 60 per cent growth over the last year reflects the surge in sustainable projects as industry gets to grips with climate change.
“We’re in the energy transformation sector and if you look at the government’s agenda, if you look at net zero targets, existing energy sources are all turning green,” said Mr Woodley.
“We’ve grown because of this pace of change and the increasing size of the projects we are undertaking. If you go back five years we were looking at five megawatt solar parks, we’re now connecting solar parks that are 120 megawatts, so significantly bigger. That drives the opportunity for growth that we have.”
Its work includes connecting large-scale projects that are helping convert traditionally diesel-powered vehicles, like buses, HGVs and shoreside maritime equipment, to cleaner electricity. It is currently engaged on an £11 million contract in Stockton-on-Tees that includes three solar parks and eight kilometres of cabling.
“Our involvement in these projects is the infrastructure, bringing in electricity from the grid, connecting the renewable energy sources up so it can then power them and then bringing those renewable energy sources back onto the grid,” said Mr Woodley.
The company has around 40 staff at its Swindon base and 50 more engineers working remotely around the UK. It is forecasting £35 million turnover this year but Mr Woodley said its ambition is to keep growing on the back of the sustainable energy boom. “We have a target to be a £100 million business in the next five years, with a headcount of around 250,” he said.
Mintivo is charged with keeping Sinewave’s remote staff connected and its workforce management system resilient. “The workforce management system runs our end-to-end process, from bid management right through to contract management, deployment of field engineers and down to the final invoicing,” said Mr Woodley.
“We have a lot of field-based staff who may not come into the office, in some cases for months on end, so making sure their connectivity, their support, is there is really important to us.
“If we lose a couple of hours because of an IT outage or there’s an issue with systems that means we lose data, we’re not going to be compliant on projects. We are also measuring our carbon footprint across all of our projects to be able to offset. Every project we do is carbon neutral.”
Mintivo Managing Director Alex Jukes said the two companies are aligned in their values because they are of similar age and size. “We understand the challenges they have because we’ve been going through a similar journey ,” he said.
“We’re fortunate because Sinewave is so forward thinking, they’ve got a very clear vision for the future. We will be advising Adam and his team on how IT can support them, what routes will be the right ones and then help them to make the right decisions in getting there more efficiently from an IT point of view.”
Mintivo is already helping Sinewave migrate to a fully cloud-based system and exploring the use of AI to help staff work more efficiently. “We’re looking at AI to streamline some of our existing processes to make sure that we’re making the systems work harder for us and allowing our team to concentrate on the more technical and enjoyable aspects of their jobs,” said Mr Woodley.
Mr Jukes said: “We’re excited to be working with a company like Sinewave. Our responsibility is to use our strategic knowledge to ensure the opportunities to leverage technology better are efficient, scalable and secure.
“We’re going to be focused on the future with Sinewave and how we can help push them forward.”
Find out more about Sinewave at sinewave.co.uk and about Mintivo’s services at Mintivo.co.uk.
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Pictured: Mintivo Managing Director Alex Jukes, left, with Sinewave CEO Adam Woodley
