ORKNEY ENERGY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC434320 · ltd · incorporated 2012-10-08
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 10.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£632.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 10.1y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
39 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £632,749
Cash YoY
+9%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£57k
↑ 8.6% YoY
Net Worth
£633k
↑ 2.4% YoY
Current Assets
£262k
↑ 28% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£127k£253k£380k£506k£633kOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£782.9k£781.1k
Current assets£261.9k£203.8k
Cash£57.1k£52.6k
Debtors£204.8k£151.3k
Net assets£632.7k£617.8k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-07-30
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  3. 2023-08-08
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  4. 2022-10-16
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  5. 2021-07-29
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  6. 2020-10-29
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  7. 2020-03-02
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  8. 2019-07-31
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  9. 2019-04-18
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    MAINLAND, Bruce Martyn resigned
    director
  10. 2018-08-27
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  11. 2018-01-13
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  12. 2018-01-09
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  13. 2017-07-31
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  14. 2016-08-29
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  15. 2016-04-29
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  16. 2016-04-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2016-03-29
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  18. 2014-10-09
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    KERINS, Adrian John appointed
    director
  19. 2012-10-08
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    Company incorporated
    As ORKNEY ENERGY LIMITED
  20. 2012-10-08
    ➕
    MAINLAND, Kirsty Ann appointed
    director
  21. 2012-10-08
    ➕
    TAIT, Erland John appointed
    director
  22. 2012-10-08
    ➕
    TAIT, Leslie Brass appointed
    director
  23. 2012-10-08
    ➕
    MAINLAND, Bruce Martyn appointed
    director

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2012-10-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

Cott Farm
Rousay
Orkney
KW17 2PT

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-22
Last: 2025-10-08

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

KERINS, Adrian John→
director · ~49y · appointed 2014-10-09
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Active
MAINLAND, Kirsty Ann→
director · ~74y · appointed 2012-10-08
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Active
TAIT, Erland John→
director · ~74y · appointed 2012-10-08
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Active
TAIT, Leslie Brass→
director · ~77y · appointed 2012-10-08
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Active
MAINLAND, Bruce Martyn→
director · ~76y · appointed 2012-10-08 · resigned 2019-04-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—26/04/2016—
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Recent filings (39 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-05
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accounts · AA
2025-07-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
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accounts · AA
2024-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-23
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accounts · AA
2023-08-08
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-29
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officers · TM01
2020-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-31