kWh Coffee Roasters

About kWh Coffee Roasters

York

Hi, we're kWh, York's electric coffee roaster.

We roast specialty coffee on electricity, time our batches to the grid's cleanest half-hours and deliver it by electric van. And if you buy coffee for a business, we'll show you where your money goes, from the farm to the cup, and what your coffee emits from the UK port to the cup.

Why We Started kWh

We named the company after the kilowatt-hour, because that's really how we think about coffee: what goes in, what it costs and what it emits.

Caitlin and Shaun started kWh in York in 2026. The idea was pretty simple: if buses, cars and homes can run on clean electricity, why not a roastery?

We quickly found the roasting was actually the easy bit. The tricky part was everything around it. Most people buying coffee, and most businesses, have no idea what it costs at each step or what it emits along the way. We thought that was a huge opportunity, so we decided to just show people.

How We Roast

All Electric

Every batch is roasted on our Bellwether electric roaster, on mains power, at the Raylor Centre in York.

Timed to the cleanest grid
We keep an eye on the grid and roast in the half-hours when it’s running cleanest, so you get exactly the same coffee with less carbon.

Delivered by EV

Orders across York and North Yorkshire go out in our electric van.

Traceable to the lot

We know exactly which lot every bag came from, and we can tell you its carbon per kilo from the UK port to your cup.

Who Are We

Laurence, Chair. We're really delighted to have Laurence Beardmore as our Chair. He built York Coffee Emporium from a small roaster into a national business before it was sold to the Upton Group. He's a qualified Q Grader and a former President of York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.

Caitlin, Coffee and Operations. Caitlin has years of experience in hospitality. Away from coffee, Caitlin is a former contemporary dancer, trained at Trinity Laban.

Shaun, Coffee and Tech. Away from coffee, Shaun has published internationally on AI safety.

Charlie, Coffee and Brand. Charlie has just come back from a stint in Australia, working in a café-roastery and doing science research.

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