Location
Dartington
Install Date
Oct 2022
Summary
The Apricot Centre is a sustainable diverse farm and wellbeing centre.
High energy use due to refrigeration and a move to using electric vehicles for deliveries increase their bills and their electricity supplier increased prices creating pressure on the small organisation.
Installation
- 2 individual installations
- 15 Q-Cell 340W panels
- 51 Perlight Solar 400w panels
totalling 25.5 kWp - Renusol metasol mounting system
- SolaX hybrid invertors
- SolaX monitoring system
Outcomes
- £4,252 estimated first year savings
- 301% total return on investment
- 7 years, 10 months payback
- 81% energy from solar
- 4.5 tonnes of CO₂ avoided per year
“This has helped us to weather the challenging increases in energy charges as a business, and made us more resilient to some of the difficulties faced by so many small businesses.”
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