Wind farm and solar farm construction sites are the most logistically demanding in the UK — remote upland or agricultural locations, 20+ miles from the nearest fuel depot, enormous plant fleets, and zero mains infrastructure. The operational challenges MWE products were designed to solve are at their most acute on a renewable energy construction project.
A wind farm construction site in upland Scotland or mid-Wales may have 20–40 pieces of heavy plant operating simultaneously, 20+ miles from the nearest town. Bowser lorry visits are expensive, infrequent, and limited to access roads. Plant working at turbine positions up haul roads cannot always be reached. The FuelBag — lifted by the site excavator or telehandler via the MW Easy-Lift System — reaches any position the plant can get to.
Turbine foundations require significant excavation, often in waterlogged upland ground. Groundwater inflow and rainfall must be continuously managed to allow concrete pours and steelwork installation. Haul road construction across wet moorland creates drainage challenges across the full site footprint. The WetBag's no-mains dewatering capability, repositioned by the site excavator, handles both foundation and trackway drainage without fixed infrastructure.
Wind farm and solar farm construction involves extensive earthworks — turbine bases, cable routes, substation platforms, haul roads. On exposed upland sites, dust from cut-and-fill operations and crushed stone haul roads disperses rapidly. CDM Regulations 2015 and COSHH apply to construction dust regardless of remoteness. The DustBag's 2,000L standalone tank operates without mains water, repositioned along the active work front by excavator.
Renewable energy construction has the biggest plant fleets, the longest working days, and the most remote locations of any construction sector. The logistics challenges — particularly fuel delivery — have historically been solved by expensive helicopter fuel drops, multiple bowser lorry visits, or undersupplied plant burning less efficiently. The FuelBag changes that by using the excavator already on site to move fuel to wherever it's needed, on the ground, within the existing site operation.
FuelBag
Remote Plant Fuelling — Wind & Solar Construction
2,000L bunded diesel bowser repositioned by site excavator or telehandler. Reaches turbine positions, cable lay trenches, substation platforms and haul road equipment. No bowser lorry. No helicopter fuel drop. 8-metre hose reel. PPG26 bunded containment — important on sites with watercourse and SSSI sensitivity.
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Foundation & Haul Road Dewatering — No Mains
Self-contained 2,000L tank and 3-inch pump. No mains power. Repositioned by excavator to turbine foundation excavations, cable trench dewatering, and saturated haul road sections. Tank storage for transport to approved discharge points — relevant on environmentally sensitive upland sites with EA permit conditions.
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Earthworks Dust — CDM Compliant at Source
Standalone 2,000L water tank and 30-metre oscillating cannon. Follows the active earthworks front — repositioned by excavator along haul road construction routes and cut-and-fill areas. No mains water connection in remote upland locations. CDM principal contractor dust management obligation met with at-source engineering control.
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Bespoke for Renewable Energy Projects
Large-scale renewable energy projects may have specific requirements — unusual tank capacities, specialist environmental containment, integration with site SCADA systems. Our CAD design team works from your brief to manufacture bespoke solutions using S355 structural steel and UK ISO 9001:2015 manufacturing partners.
View Bespoke →The FuelBag is lifted and repositioned by the site excavator or telehandler using the patented MW Easy-Lift System — a 60mm pin that engages directly with the machine's bucket or forks. On active wind farm construction, the excavator already operating in the area carries the FuelBag to wherever plant needs fuelling. No specialist attachment, no bowser lorry, no second machine.
Wind farm sites frequently overlap with SSSIs, SACs, peat catchments and watercourse protection zones. PPG26 (EA fuel storage guidance) requires bunded storage of 110% capacity — which the FuelBag provides as an integral design feature. Any fuel spill is contained within the bund, preventing ground and watercourse contamination. Always follow your environmental management plan and any consent conditions.
MWE products are manufactured by ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 certified UK partners, in S355 structural steel with UK-traceable material test certificates. This supports supplier approval processes for Tier 1 renewable energy contractors and their environmental, quality and sustainability frameworks.
Multiple FuelBag, WetBag and DustBag units can be deployed across a large site footprint simultaneously. Each unit operates independently — no shared mains infrastructure — and is repositioned by whatever machine is working in that area. For very large projects, contact our team to discuss fleet supply pricing and spare parts arrangements.
Remote location, large plant fleet, no mains — we were built for this. Talk to our team.