A Milton Keynes hospice which cares for people whose illnesses are no longer responding to curative treatment, is benefitting from solar-generated electricity thanks to UK solar companies, Conergy UK, SMA Solar UK and FSG Energy.
Pupils at Bartholomew School in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, are learning about the creation of energy and the role renewables can play in reducing carbon pollution thanks to a major solar installation on the school’s sports hall roof.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has generated £22,000 from solar installations across police buildings at Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Gravesend, Deptford, Bromley and Sutton.
The specialist fruit farm, FG Pierce & Sons near Sevenoaks in Kent, has dramatically cut the cost of keeping its fruit cool thanks to a major solar PV installation.
Knellwood Care Home in Farnborough has remained an important part of the Hampshire community since it was established in 1947 as a memorial to local servicemen and women.
Eight npower sites across the UK are now producing carbon-free electricity following the installation of over 200 solar modules across eight of its key UK premises.
Over 450 homes throughout the Midlands and the South East are now powered by the sun after the completion of Street Energy’s 1.2MW rent-a-roof scheme.
The University of Durham’s historic campus has long been one of the North East’s most treasured jewels, but the sprawling nature of the campus had long meant that the University’s core administrative services were scattered across the city.
Last March, with the help of the Renewable Energy Cooperative (R-ECO), Cornwall College was able to install and register three different solar systems before the feed-in tariff reductions took hold. Six months later the college has revealed the extent of its savings.
Lewes District Council’s Wave Leisure centre is a particularly high user of energy, as such, the council was keen to investigate ways in which it could reduce the centre’s electricity bills.
Millions of strawberries grown in two farms in Cambridgeshire are now being cooled and prepared for sale using energy generated from 400 solar panels.
This summer Hamish Janson installed 100 solar modules at his farm in Newton Valence with the help of Godalming-based leasing experts, Reality Finance Solutions.
Sanitov Studios is a design think tank charged with developing sustainable urban designs. The think tank’s latest project was inspired by an ambition to not only develop one of the most sustainable homes in London, but also develop one of the most affordable.
Bradford Cathedral has become the first cathedral in the UK to generate its own electricity from the sun, thanks to a solar system installed by Cumbria-based solar specialists, Sundog Energy.
Truro School in Cornwall now hosts one of the largest on-roof solar PV arrays installed in the country.
Burgess Hill-based Oskomera Solar Power Solutions UK Ltd has completed a series of ground-mounted solar parks across Devon. The three solar parks total 3.5MW of solar capacity that will significantly help cut the county’s carbon footprint.