Commercial Solar PV
Greenshop Solar is a long established renewables company delivering efficient, high quality commercial solar PV systems in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, from it’s base in the Cotswolds at Bisley, Stroud.
Greenshop Solar will advise on and install commercial installations on buildings of all sizes and installs systems up to 50kW peak. For the business occupying the building the return on investment is particularly good, it also gives the business more financial predictability and security into the future. As you will have heard on the news energy security and price will be a big issue in the coming years.
Commercial solar PV installations give a different payback/investment scenario, the energy consumption profile is usually high daytime use which matches perfectly the energy generation profile.
This has two main effects on the payback, the first is that the business will probably use all the energy that is being generated, saving the cost of buying in electricity, the second is that it will future proof the company against energy cost price increases.
Large scale commercial PV systems can be installed on a roof or be ground mounted. Off-site annual system performance monitoring is included with all our installations.
Systems above 30kw peak are required to meter their export energy, it is not deemed as with smaller systems.
On larger systems we often come across the situation where the District Network Operator requires us to limit the maximum export power for local area distribution reasons. On shutdown sunny weekends a larger system may export more than their maximum figure, but the in normal working business operation the business demands are such that everything generated will be used. Larger systems can be fitted and system controls installed to limit the maximum exported energy.
Commercial systems get most benefit from using the energy generated at the time of generation, so a peak generation at midday is not as useful as flatter generation profile which can be achieved with an east/west system, so a low angle east/west installation is often a better option.