Case Studies

Joining the realms of the soon-to-be-uncommon large-scale roof installations in the UK, a 500kW system has been completed in Suffolk. Going Solar has now finished work on the £1.2 million project, which features a total of 2,200 solar panels.

Long Sutton Primary School in Lincolnshire now features a 9.66kW solar system, which was installed by Lark Energy. Local company Eco Building Products supplied the photovoltaic panels for the system, which is situated on the roof of the building.

Goldbeck Solar, the Germany-based commercial solar provider, has completed a 515kWp rooftop system for the Weidenhammer Packaging Group in Bradford. Featuring 2,2021 Yingli photovoltaics modules, Group’s manufacturing building now features a system installed by Athos Solar, reinforcing the company’s environmental policy regarding sustainability, the society, its employees and the business sectors in which it operates.

Bourne-based Lark Energy has completed work on the first phase of a 76.5kWp photovoltaic installation at Spitfire Park, located on an industrial estate on Northfield Road in Market Deeping.

PV system design, supply, installation and commissioning company, KN Renewable Energy — which has operating in the renewable energy sector for over four years — has completed a 29.64kWp system, at Holmes Farm in Lincolnshire. The company specializes in 1kWp to 5MWp installations, including building-integrated, ground, pitched and flat roof mounted.

Cornwall-based solar installer Renewable Energy Co-operative (R-ECO) has completed its first community project at Sterts Theatre, near Liskeard, North Cornwall. Cornwall Council provided funding via the Strategic Arts Clients’ Capital fund, and R-ECO provided match funding for the project.

Spirit Solar designed and installed this 9.945kWp solar PV roof mounted system on the Bourne End Community Centre. Completed on the March 25 this year, the installation has already generated 2,100 kilowatt hours.

Lancashire-based Solar Power PV Ltd., has completed another 4kWp residential solar installation in Barrowford. The system, consisting of 16 x 250w CNPV black framed monocrystalline panels and a SolarMax 4200S inverter is situated on the clients roof.

Solar Power Portal reader Neil Dixon got in touch last week as he noticed that there seemed to be a lot of content regarding PV installations in the South of England, and whilst he accepts that the North East is not generally regarded as tropical, it does have great solar potential. In fact, Mr. Dixon’s own property features a 3.29kWp system, installed by the Mark Group.

Solar Power PV Ltd., the Lancashire based installer of commercial and residential PV systems, has just completed the first installation phase for The Sidings (Whalley) Ltd. Comprising of 86 x 200w CNPV Monocrystalline panels and a combination of SolarMax 13 MT & 3000S inverters to produce a 17.2kWp system.  This is the first of seven phases which, when completed in June of this year, will total 110kWp comprising of around 550 panels.