Grimsby Enterprise Village teamed up with their business support organisation (E Factor) to invest in the installation of a 36.75kWp solar PV system on to the roofs of the Enterprise Village’s units, located on Prince Albert Gardens in Grimsby. The solar PV installation delivered by Genfit, now means the businesses operating from the site are consuming the renewable energy generated on the roof, rather than drawing power from the Grid.

Natalie Cresswell, Property & Operations Manager at E-Factor, said: “We’re always looking at ways to enhance our tenancies and with forecasted increases in electricity prices, we knew we wanted to make further investments into sustainable, renewable energies. We’re committed to making the whole site more environmentally friendly, and this new installation will enable us to help protect our tenants against some of those increases in energy prices, as well as reducing their carbon footprint.”

98 solar PV panels were installed across the whole building, estimated to generate 30.79MWh per annum. The energy generated will provide some of the electricity for each individual unit and will reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 8.65 tonnes per annum. Surplus power will be fed back into the National Grid.

Laser Red, an award-winning digital agency, have been tenants of The Enterprise Village since 2015. Managing Director, Liam O’Leary said: “We have an ever-expanding team who are all using different forms of technology from our office, whether they’re online or using video and photography equipment in our new media studio, so it’s great to know that E-Factor are taking action now to help reduce electricity costs for the future, and doing their part for the environment too.

This 90 PV Module solar system was installed on behalf of Kingfisher in Peterborough. Our Client, Solar Century that now goes by the name of Statkraft asked about the prospect of having a solar system installed on the Screwfix Stores roof. The outcome of what was being installed was 90 x Canadian Solar All-Black CS6K-270m solar panels and two different inverters, the Solax ZDNY 10000 and the Solax X3-Hybrid-10.0T. The Peterborough store marks the first time Kingfisher has used solar panels or air source pumps together with battery storage to power operations around the clock.

Power is generated by the solar panels during the day, and excess energy is used to charge the batteries which power the store in the evenings. The air source heat pump has replaced gas and electric heating, and together with the solar PV system, heats the store more efficiently. Surplus power goes back to the grid, off-setting the days in winter when the solar PV will be generating less power and grid energy is needed to power the store.

Graham Bell, CEO at Screwfix, commented: “We are investing now to cut energy across our own operations, and our long-term aspiration is to match this by helping customers have zero carbon or energy positive homes and businesses too. Our net zero store in Peterborough represents a significant milestone in our ambition to embed sustainability across the business, and help customers to create good, sustainable homes and businesses.”

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Genfit were chosen by Neston based business Cheshire Wellness to develop their energy efficiency master plan.  For over 50 years Cheshire Wellness has been one of the most respected names in the design, construction and manufacture of swimming pools, tiled spas, experience rooms and medical wellness products which are hand crafted within a 30,000 sq ft factory. We installed a 60kWp PV system across two buildings for their site in Neston. The system saved 14.01t of CO2 emissions and was predicted to produce 49.84MWh of energy every calendar year. It was made up of 222 x Seraphim Solar System Co.Ltd., SRP-270-6PB (35mm frame) solar panels split across the 2 buildings with 112 x P600 optimizers and 2 x SolarEdge 25K Inverters connected to complete the system.

During the first full month the solar system generated over 70% of the electricity required to power the factory, therefore significantly reducing it’s draw on the grid.  The business is now looking to further benefit from it’s solar production by adding battery storage so that every watt of energy generated will power the factory even after the sun has gone down.

Genfit installed a 250kWp solar array for Boys and Boden, Chester, a large building materials superstore. The installation was spread over multiple buildings on the site and they are also looking to install future renewable technologies from us for their other sites across the UK.

PV system was created on SolarEdge designer so we could figure out how many solar panels we could fit on each particular building as well as linking them up on the electrical side of the installation to connect to the inverters to the solar panels.

The system was made up of a huge 923 x BYD270P6C-30 solar panels, 461 x P600 optimizer and 8 x SolarEdge 27.6K inverter which will be saving 199,277.38 kg of CO2 emissions and is equivalent to 9,121.85 trees being planted. The Energy produced from the solar panels over the whole of last year came to a massive 228.17 MWh.