Case Studies

The longest established self-storage company in the UK, Space Station, has embraced solar technology, installing PV modules over all five of the company’s sites.

Solar panels have been installed on council-owned buildings and leisure centres across South Kesteven.

Stroud-based football club, Forest Green Rovers, has become the first football ground in the UK to install a solar array on its stadium.

EvoEnergy has recently completed a 100kWp solar PV installation atop the roof of Bilborough Sixth Form College’s sports hall.

Sundog Energy has overcome English Heritage requirements and significant wind loading challenges in order to complete a 143.3kWp solar installation on a Victorian cotton mill in Oldham.

Ilkeston Community Hospital in Derbyshire is hoping to dramatically cut its carbon emissions since Eco Environments installed a 50kWp solar array on the hospital’s roof. The £166,500 solar array is expected to save over 24 tonnes of carbon from being emitted every year.

Poole-based Save Energy Group has expanded its solar PV portfolio with the introduction of CIS thin-film panels produced by Solar Frontier. To showcase the new technology, Save Energy Group used Solar Frontier’s all-black thin-film modules to complete 90kW of commercial installs in February and March.

Japanese module manufacturer, Kyocera Corporation, has announced that it has supplied two dozen solar modules for a flagship ‘zero-carbon’ project which saw 900-year-old St. Michael and All Angels Church in Withington install solar PV and a biomass boiler system.

A development of 22 environmentally friendly flats by Yorkshire Housings in Morley Bottoms, Leeds has benefited from the installation of 60 Sandtoft PV48 in-roof solar tiles.

One of the UK’s largest solar photovoltaic installations is being protected by a security system provided by Optex which incorporates a number of the company’s award-winning Redscan laser detectors.