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Posted by: Simon In Photovoltaic

Our last PV installation was for a Renault Zoe. Her owners wanted electricity for their house, a smart immersion switch and to charge their new electric car. Our calculations showed that a regular 4kWp array just couldn’t do all of the above and we wanted Zoe to have a big share of the available energy […]

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A major refurbishment of one of the buildings at the Church of Our Lady Immaculate & St Andrew has created a pair of very comfortable flats for their retired ministers. As well as the all-new interior, it included a 5.3kWp PV array on the roof which provides electricity for the flats and the rest of […]

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When Earthworks asked one of their important fund raisers, Ed Suttie, to turn on the new car park lights, they were kind enough to invite us to the ceremony too. Ed is raising money by walking to the North Pole in April (Ed 2 North Pole) and took time out from his training regime to mark […]

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In a change to the usual, German, Axitec panels we fit when asked for all-black panels we have recently tried these new, SunSolar modules. With thicker than usual 4mm glass and an industry leading 25 year product warranty, we were impressed by the build quality and the way they looked. It’s nice to support British […]

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St George’s school in Harpenden wanted to lower their energy bill and demonstrate to their pupils how renewable energy can reduce their carbon footprint.

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There is a remarkable charity in St Albans called Earthworks who provide horticultural training for those with learning difficulties. When their old shed burnt down in 2011 they replaced it with a beautiful oak-framed barn to provide a place to shelter in the winter.

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The recent hot weather has been ideal for completing the Schuco roof mounting hardware for our latest 50kW solar panel PV system on the Sports Hall roof of St George’s school in Harpenden. The standing seam metal roof  on this relatively new building has allowed our team to make short work of the 400 clamps […]

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We’ve a forthcoming 50kW solar system on St George’s School in Harpenden and, working with the school, have chosen panels from a new British company, Active Array. The 200 panel array is going on their very impressive Sports Hall and will not only provide a huge amount of it’s energy, it will add a revenue […]

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One of our recent clients wanted a large array but only had limited space available on the roof of his house. The south east facing roof had a velum window and the south west roof was cluttered with a dormer and adjacent soil stack, all of which limited the array to a disappointing 1.25kW. Switching […]

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As elegant as a pinstripe suit and a smart addition to any roof, these Sunrise Solartech 250W panels have found a sunny a roof in Letchworth. Having seen numerous conventional panels with blue silicone modules and silver aluminium frames, our client liked the look of the black frame, black tedlar backing and black silicone modules […]

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Weather forecasts are getting better all of the time and the ‘two drop’ icon featured heavily in the outlook for an installation in Stevenage earlier this week. But fortunately, the sunny spells were longer than the rainy periods and, despite the odd damp patch (we came down from the roof when there was thunder and […]

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These nicely made Perlight 250W ‘all black’ panels produced a really nice looking installation. Matched to one of our favourite Eltek 3.8HE-t inverters, the system is performing well too and making the most of the spring sunshine.

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After some careful preparatory work with the Planning Department, we were allowed to put up this discrete 3.9kW array on a garage roof, pretty much out of sight from everyone. The owners of the 17th century house are enjoying the 21st century source of electricity and making sure they make the most of this new […]