SmartestEnergy powering a city’s streets
The streets of the City of Salford in Greater Manchester are now being lit by renewable
UK’s largest solar roof installation goes live at Beccles, Suffolk
Promens Manufacturing facility will use almost 100% of the energy generated by its 1.65MW roof-top solar plant.
Lightsource Renewable Energy and Octopus Investments are proud to announce that the country’s largest solar farm will go live on a Promens warehouse roof-top at Beccles in Suffolk. The installation was developed by Lightsource, built by Grupotec, and funded by hundreds of small investors throughout the UK, through funds managed by Octopus.
energy following the first contract win of its kind by SmartestEnergy.
Under the two year agreement SmartestEnergy will supply more than 29 million kilowatt hours of energy to the city which is home to 220,000 people. The contract is worth around £1.4 million a year and covers approximately 30,000 street lamps across the city where attractions include Salford Quays, one of the largest urban regeneration projects in the UK. The BBC is currently relocating a number of its departments from London to a new ‘Media City’ development at the former Manchester docks site.
The Salford City Council contract is the first for local authority street lighting to be won by SmartestEnergy which supplies electricity to a rapidly growing number of large energy users from its portfolio of independent generation projects.
“We believe there is significant potential for street lighting across the UK to be powered by renewable electricity,” said Geoff Curtis, SmartestEnergy Key Account Manager. “Local authorities are under considerable pressure to cut costs but don’t want to reduce lighting because of its role in preventing crime and accidents.
“By supplying renewable energy without a premium we are able to help councils maintain services within their budget and also reduce carbon footprint.”
The 7,000 solar panels give the site a capacity of 1.65MW, making it the largest roof-top project in the UK to date. The Government has dramatically reduced the subsidies available for any solar scheme over 50KW coming online after the 1st August, so it is likely that this will be the UK’s largest roof-top installation ever.
The on-site link between the energy source and consumption removes the need for new substations or land-based grid connections because close to 100% of the power generated will be used on site. The site is a perfect demonstration of embedded generation because the power production is matched to the on-site load.
Lightsource is one of the few developers to have successfully met the August 1st deadline, ensuring its installations are eligible to receive the Government’s current Feed in Tariff for larger (+50Kw) sites. It has been a race against time for the construction companies involved, with some having only five weeks on site to complete their work.
CARLUCCIO’S AIMS FOR A CARBON SAVING OF 92.7 TONNES BY CONVERTING WASTE COOKING OIL WITH CONVERT2GREEN
Convert2Green has concluded an agreement to work with ‘restaurant’ group Carluccio's to collect and convert waste cooking oil into bio- diesel as part of the company’s wider sustainability strategy.
Convert2Green will collect waste oil from Carluccio’s 54 cafès in the UK and recycle it in to high quality bio-fuel which will be used to fuel delivery trucks, reducing carbon emissions by up to 90%.
“Carluccio’s is a founding member of the Sustainable Restaurant Association so we take our recycling, waste management and carbon savings very seriously – recycling our waste cooking oil into bio-diesel is a big part of our overall sustainability strategy,” explains Steve Kaddish, development manager, Carluccio’s.
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