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The Scottish National Equestrian Centre (SNEC) in West Lothian has installed a large solar array in order to slash its carbon footprint, negate increasing energy price rises and benefit from feed-in tariff payments. The solar installation marks the second major green investment project on the Oatridge College estate near Broxburn.
Riders Junior School in Havent has received a free solar installation as part of Keep Britain Tidy’s Eco-Schools Solar programme.
Sanyo Component Europe has completed the installation of projects utilising its HIT1 solar modules at Rosa Street Primary School and Hamsterley Primary School in County Durham. The two schools were awarded the systems by Sanyo for their work in the Future Planets project – a challenge where pupils are tasked with exploring the state of the planet in 25 years time if sustainable and non-sustainable choices are made.
The south coast town of Bordon in East Hampshire has recently been unveiled as the UK’s latest ‘eco-town’ and is currently embarking upon a number of green initiatives. One such initiative has seen Bordon Junior School install a photovoltaic energy roof system a part of a ‘grand eco scheme’.
Joju Solar has installed a 1.8kW solar photovoltaics system for Wentworth Primary School in Hackney. The system, which has been fitted to a shelter where the children play, will save the school money on electricity bills as well as providing them with feed-in tariff payments for the next 25 years.
The Business Academy Bexley has been given the green light for the installation of a 558.6kW system that will generate around 45% of the electricity used by the Academy, cutting an estimated £46,790 off its annual £104,700 electricity bill and reducing its carbon footprint by 457 tonnes a year.
Stourfield Junior became the first school in Bournemouth to have Photovoltaic Solar Panels installed on its roof. Being a Government Accredited company – Solar Fusion were asked to carry out a consultation at the school to advise which system would suit their requirements.
A Baptist church near Dartford, Kent, felt that they should be taking the environmental challenge seriously and decided to go for solar PV. After contacting three local companies for quotes they placed their business with The Green Home Company.
EvoEnergy are pleased to announce the completion of a 9.99kWp photovoltaic Solar Farm on Shefield University’s Hicks building.
On site work commenced on 21st June 2010 and was live at close of play on 24th June 2010.
EvoEnergy was chosen to design and commission the Solar Farm because of its proven track record in design and installation of bespoke photovoltaic solutions at Nottingham and Cambridge University’s.
EvoEnergy was commissioned by the University of Cambridge to design and install a 4.64kWp system consisting of 16 bespoke 290Wp mono-crystalline panels, installed on four custom fabricated solar ‘tree’ frames. The system has a predicted yearly output of 3,868 kWh/year, saving 2,197kgCO2/year. The project was the result of an open tender which EvoEnergy won due to their innovative and creative system design.
