Plot D2 warehouse roof
Plot D2
502 kWp on a 507,000 sq ft warehouse roof unconfirmed
Commercial solar · Manufacturing · George: town, county
Scotswood Industries: 263 kWp of rooftop solar for a manufacturing site
446 panels and four Solis inverters across the factory roofs, with EV charging for staff and fleet vehicles.
Scotswood Industries, full site aerial
At a glance
| Client | Scotswood Industries |
|---|---|
| Sector | Manufacturing |
| Location | George: town, county |
| System | 263 kWp rooftop solar |
| Panels | 446 George: make and model |
| Inverters | 4 Solis inverters, 200 kW in total |
| EV charging | George: number and type of chargers, e.g. "4 × 22 kW dual chargers" |
| Grid connection | George: G99 approval from which network operator, and how long it took |
| Completed | George: month and year |
The site
Scotswood Industries George: what they make and for whom, one sentence from their site in George: town. George: how the site runs, e.g. shifts and opening hours, and roughly how much electricity it uses.
The site has George: number large buildings with George: roof type, e.g. profiled metal roofs and open, unshaded space for panels unconfirmed. George: anything that made the site particular: roof age or condition, a live production floor underneath, limited access, a shared yard.
Why Scotswood wanted solar
Manufacturing uses a lot of electricity, and most of it during the working day, when solar generates unconfirmed. Scotswood wanted to bring its energy costs down and cut the site's environmental impact, and to offer EV charging for staff and for its own vehicles.
George: what prompted it, in the customer's terms: a rising energy contract, a customer or group target on emissions, a new fleet of electric vans, a board decision. One or two sentences.
What we installed
- 446 solar panels, 263 kWp in total, on George: which roofs
- Four Solis inverters, 200 kW in total
- George: mounting system and fixing method for the roof type
- George: EV chargers: number, make, power, where they are
- Monitoring so the site can see generation and use unconfirmed
The panels add up to more than the inverters' rating, 263 kWp against 200 kW. That's normal on a commercial roof: panels rarely produce their full rating at once, so the inverters run near full output for more of the day unconfirmed.
How the installation went
On a working site, getting panels on the roof is the easy part. The hard part is access, safety, the electrical work, and making sure everyone on site can keep doing their job while we're there, so we plan all of that before we start unconfirmed.
At Scotswood, George: the survey and design: roof survey, structural check, how the layout was chosen.
George: the grid application: who it went to, how long approval took, any upgrade needed.
George: on site: how long the install took, how access worked (scaffold, edge protection, lifting panels onto the roof), how production carried on, anything that didn't go to plan and how it was solved.
We commissioned the system in George: month and year, registered it and handed over the certificates and monitoring, so the site is paid for the electricity it exports unconfirmed.
Expected results
- 215,890 kWhestimated generation a year
- £43,157estimated savings a year
- 55 tonnesestimated CO₂ reduction a year
- 3.5 yearsindicative payback
These are estimates made when the system was designed. Real performance depends on how the site runs, its tariff and its usage. Once a full year's figures are in: "In its first full year, the system generated [x] kWh (measured [month year])."
In their words
"George: the customer's quote, word for word, 25–60 words, ideally on how the job went or what it's meant for the site."
Name, role, Scotswood Industries
Photos and video from the installation
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Scotswood main rooftop array
Scotswood main rooftop array
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Scotswood roof-level detail
Scotswood roof-level detail
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Scotswood install, two buildings
Scotswood install, two buildings
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