As part of the company’s plan to lower its CO2e in line with Government targets and reduce the companies costs we decided to investigate both Solar and Wind power as an alternative option to commercial energy.
We set about trying to understand if we could actually have solar on our roof based on the available network capacity in our area and after submitting our DNO application we soon found that we could in fact export as much as we would typically import from the existing network.
We now had a target availability of what we could potentially export in the case that the building was not consuming electricity.
As our facilities have been built recently we knew that the roof and structure was able to take the additional load weight of the panels as we had specified this in the design at the time we had constructed Factory 1.
We had discussed the project with several Solar companies in the UK market and after several discussions with many different suppliers we had selected our partner Centreco to take on the installation of the Solar Farm on Factory 1 roof.
Based on what we could export we were able to install enough solar panels to achieve a yield of 361.50 kWh. The panels will provide a different yield throughout the year as there is more sunlight over the summer months and less during the winter but we expect the system to generate enough electricity to save us over £100k on electricity costs.
Also included in this would be a big reduction on our CO2e generated, this is coupled with the company using electricity generated from renewable energy meaning that we do not have any CO2e generated from our entire electricity consumption.
