Case Studies

KN Renewable Energy has completed a 37.74kWp solar installation at the New Academy in East London. Designed using 204 Sharp 185Wp solar panels, the project is expected to produce 31,640 kilowatt hours of renewable energy each year.

UK Solar Provider has now completed its 95kWp solar photovoltaics installation at Vine farm in south Cambridgeshire. After being delayed by two months due to planning permission issues, the project is now fully up-and-running.

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’.

Wire Belt has enlisted the help of Riomay Renewable Energies to build a 98.7kWp PV system at its production facility in Sittingbourne, Kent. The rooftop array will generate 82,972kWh per annum and save the stainless steel conveyor belt manufacturer around £2,400 on its annual energy bill.

EOS Energy installed a total of 2.59kWp for Dave Wise, Councillor for Southam, who wanted to utilise the solar power in order to bring his bills and carbon footprint down. The system is expected to generate an income of over £800 a year as well as cutting his electricity charges by £200 per annum.

A1 Solar Solutions Limited has completed a 303kWp solar installation on Selecta Solutions’ warehouse rooftop in Great Barr. The project, which was completed two weeks ahead of schedule, is expected to generate enough energy to cut the company’s electricity bill by a third.

Adding to the list of successful solar projects over 50kW, Duncan Solar has announced the completion of its 99.9kWp system installed at WE Jameson & Son Ltd's operations in Masham, North Yorkshire.

Warwickshire-based solar specialist EOS Energy completed a 3.82kWp solar panel installation for Hill Close Garden Centre in Warwick in May 2011. Visitors to the Centre will soon be able to view the rooftop installation close-up as plans to install safety equipment go through.

AZUR SOLAR has installed the largest, self-funded roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system in the UK for Ethical retailer The Body Shop – just days before the effects of the fast-track feed-in tariff review set in. At 883kW the 6,355 square meter installation consists of 3,840 AZUR SOLAR 2P panels and is situated at the Company's head office site in Watersmead, Sussex.

Bedford-based arable farmer Charles Paytner is now benefitting from a 26.125kWp solar system on Yelden Farm’s barn roof, installed by Solar Partner.