Why does great high voltage engineering so often fall short in delivery?

Too often, projects are won by one team and delivered by another. Knowledge is lost, communication suffers, and accountability becomes diluted.

We built HVDC to be different.

Our senior team stays involved from the first conversation through to commissioning and energisation. The people who develop your solution are the same people who oversee its delivery, ensuring continuity, clear communication, and informed decisions throughout your project.

By combining the expertise of a major contractor with the agility of a specialist business, we keep our customers at the centre of everything we do, delivering high-quality electrical infrastructure, safely, efficiently and without compromise.

One team. One responsibility. One successful outcome.

The story

A Young Company. Built on Decades of Experience.

HVDC may be a young business, but it’s built by industry professionals with more than 75 years of combined experience delivering high voltage infrastructure across the UK.

Our founders recognised a recurring challenge within the industry: projects were often won by experienced teams but handed over for delivery, leading to unnecessary delays, diluted accountability, and inconsistent customer experiences.

HVDC was created to offer a different approach.

We have built a senior-led business where the people who price, design and deliver your project remain involved from concept through to energisation. That continuity ensures informed decisions, seamless communication and clear accountability from start to finish.

Combining the capability of a major contractor with the agility of a specialist business, we deliver safe, high-quality electrical infrastructure while keeping our customers at the centre of everything we do.

We are the standard for high voltage

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MEET THE TEAM

Our senior team leads every stage of your project—from commercial, sales and tendering through to design, delivery, commissioning, and health & safety—remaining actively involved from initial enquiry to energisation.

Michael Christie

Commercial Director

With extensive experience delivering complex electrical infrastructure projects, Michael leads HVDC’s commercial and pre-construction teams, ensuring every project is underpinned by robust engineering, commercial certainty, and uncompromising standards.

Robert Penty

Sales Director

From your first enquiry to project completion, Rob combines commercial leadership with technical and operational expertise. As HVDC’s NERS Assessing Officer and Health & Safety Lead, he supports clients from initial engagement through to successful project delivery, maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and compliance.

Lee Backhouse

Operations Director

With more than 20 years’ experience delivering complex electrical infrastructure projects, Lee leads HVDC’s operations and project delivery teams, ensuring every project is delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards of quality, performance, and customer service.

Alex Dixon

Tendering Manager

From your first enquiry to project completion, Rob combines commercial leadership with technical and operational expertise. As HVDC’s NERS Assessing Officer and Health & Safety Lead, he supports clients from initial engagement through to successful project delivery, maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and compliance.

Planning a connection or an upgrade?

Talk to the senior team who will actually deliver it. We reply fast, because you deal with us, not a call centre.