Next Energy Solutions Ltd
Registered name: NEXT ENERGY SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of Dcc Public Limited Company groupNext Energy Solutions Ltd made £70.1m revenue and £8.9m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Next Energy Solutions Ltd’s revenue fell 13% to £70.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £8.9m profit and 144 employees. The company is classified under “other specialised construction activities” and is based in Warrington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, North West
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate parent undertaking is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £39.7m | £80.6m | £70.1m |
| Cost of sales | £25.8m | £62.9m | £51.3m |
| Gross profit | £13.8m | £17.7m | £18.8m |
| Operating profit | £9.8m | £11m | £12m |
| Profit before tax | £9.8m | £11.1m | £12.1m |
| Profit after tax | £7.9m | £8.2m | £8.9m |
| Profit (best available) | £7.9m | £8.2m | £8.9m |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £4m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 70 | 111 | 144 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 19.9% | 10.2% | 12.6% |
| Gross margin | 34.9% | 22% | 26.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £567k | £726k | £487k |
| Profit per employee | £113k | £74.1k | £61.5k |
| Cash conversion | −62.1% | −68.8% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲103.2% | ▼13% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲4.3% | ▲7.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲58.6% | ▲29.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.2m | £6.7m | £40.9k |
| Net assets | £13.4m | £20.7m | £29.6m |
| Fixed assets | £176k | £789k | £415k |
| Current assets | £17.7m | £28.2m | £40.5m |
| Debtors | £6.3m | £4.1m | £12m |
| Deferred income | — | £4.2m | £4.8m |
| Cash from operations | −£6.1m | −£7.6m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 26.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £487k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £61.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 6.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.2%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲43%
- Now £29.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼99%
- Now £40.9k
- Headcount
- ▲30%
- Now 144
- Deferred income
- ▲15%
- Now £4.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▼47%
- Now £415k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Dcc Public Limited Company (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- DCC Limited75–100%
- DCC Energy UK Limited75–100%
- Energy Acquisitions UK Limited75–100%
- Certas Energy UK Limited75–100%
- Alpa Group Limited75–100%
- Next Energy Solutions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £8.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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