Why buy?

Let's compare 50 units over 5 years

• Offshore-rated welfare units on renewables projects typically rent at around £20 per unit per day.
• Across a 50-location offshore wind farm, that's £365,000 per year — or £1,825,000 over five years — spent on rental.
• Even at THUNDERBOX^™ Offshore's single-unit list price of £19,995, buying 50 units is £999,750. This number comes down with bulk discounts.
• Owning the fleet outright costs less than three years of the equivalent rental commitment.
• Break-even against rental sits at roughly 2 years and 9 months per unit. Every year of service beyond that is cost out of the project.

Ownership, without the moving goalposts

What you see is what you get. We value transparency and simplicity.

• No annual inflationary uplifts. A rental day-rate agreed today is not the day-rate you'll be paying in year three.
• No end-of-term renegotiation. Ownership is a one-time procurement decision. No supplier leverage at renewal.
• No buy-out clauses. No question of paying twice — once to rent, once to keep.

Ownership, without the servicing overhead

Wind-Fare units are client-owned assets. Servicing sits with the operator's own technicians — the same teams already deployed to site. If a component fails, Wind-Fare supplies the spare at trade price, along with an indicative RAMS pack, so replacement can be integrated into the next planned site visit.

No third-party service vans. No servicing markup. No competing schedules.

When rental makes sense

Not every project needs to own. Short-duration campaigns, exploratory work, mobilisation phases and short-notice deployments still favour rental — and Wind-Fare can supply rental units for these scenarios directly.

For offshore asset portfolios with multi-year welfare requirements, ownership is worth understanding — whether you buy from us or not.

Single unit pricing shown. Volume savings available on portfolio agreements.