Nixon Infinity Cube batteries: deployment lessons and fuel savings for site engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Nixon Hire has invested over £1m for UK-exclusive supply of 14 Infinity Cube Europe Pro battery storage units for 18 months, with capacities of 200kW (S Pro), 300kW (M Pro) and 550kW (L Pro) and the ability to link units and coordinate up to three generators. Early deployments include an L Pro powering 106 modular office bays plus welfare and washing blocks on a major BESS project, and an M Pro running a tower crane and a Premier League training-ground kitchen. One site reported monthly savings of 13,000 litres of fuel, over £20,000 in costs and 33.8 tonnes of CO2, with performance tracked via Nixon’s Renewable Energy Hub and Pulse portal.
Technical Brief
- Each Infinity Cube unit can actively manage and rotate up to three diesel generators for balanced run-hours.
- Nixon’s initial fleet comprises 14 Pro units, with six already operating and eight due on hire by late October.
- An additional four Infinity Cube units are scheduled before year-end, allowing staged deployment across winter works.
- Generator rotation via the BSU enables clustering of maintenance visits and reduced unplanned downtime on remote sites.
- On the major BESS construction site, the L Pro also carried miscellaneous construction loads beyond welfare and office demand.
- Remote monitoring through Nixon’s Renewable Energy Hub allows live adjustment of charge/discharge schedules to match site load profiles.
- Pulse portal access gives contractors real-time dashboards of kWh usage, peak loads, and quantified fuel and CO2 savings.
- For temporary works planning, such BSUs enable downsizing of generator sets and reduced on-site fuel storage volumes.
Our Take
Nixon Hire’s more than £1m commitment to Infinity Cube units in the United Kingdom lines up with its earlier Pulse portal launch, suggesting it is building an integrated offer where battery storage, site cabins and solar assets are monitored and optimised through a single digital layer.
The ability of each Infinity Cube unit to coordinate up to three generators positions Nixon Hire to displace conventional standalone genset hire on complex UK temporary works sites, especially where clients are under pressure to demonstrate quantified CO₂ reductions like the 33.8t cut reported on one project.
Within our 908-item Infrastructure corpus, Nixon Hire appears repeatedly in sustainability-tagged pieces, signalling that this battery roll-out is part of a broader strategy to market low-carbon temporary power and accommodation solutions rather than a one-off product addition.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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