In January 2018, UT Power installed an 11kW Solar PV at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre in partnership with Bouygues Energy Services.

In January 2018, UT Power installed an 11kW Solar PV at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre in partnership with Bouygues Energy Services.

The system was designed to have as little visual impact on the site and included black monocrystalline solar panels and black mounting kit.

Project managed by Craig Tewley the site had a number of obstacles to overcome including a imitation slate tiled roof containing asbestos.  Under our roofers supervision the asbestos removal company took away a number of asbestos tiles to allow us to replace them and fit the roof hooks supplied by Solar Limpets.

The system is forecast to generate 9,835kWh and avoid 4.4 tonnes of CO2 emissions in it’s first year.  The savings on electricity for even this small size commercial system is over £34,000 over 20 years.

The system is fully optimised on the SolarEdge platform making it safe and also benefits from the additional yield given through the on roof electronics.

During the latter part of the summer, 2018, One Leisure St Neots have had 110 270W panels installed on their leisure center.  The system is a SolarEdge system optimised on P600 for full vision of how the system operates and to benefit from the range of safety and additional yield generation features.

The system is forecast to generate 27,915kWh and save 12.5 tonnes of CO2 in the first year.

SolarEdge Optimised panels give a minimum of a 2% yield increase, provide added safety features, panel level monitoring showing generation data, improved fault finding data and an extra two years on the inverter warranty. The optimisers allow the panels to perform independently and therefore the strings are not brought down to the lowest performing panel as in a traditional string inverter set up. Additionally any panel can work in any system meaning that if you need to replace a panel for any reason you would not need to find the specific sized panel to match the array. The system is classed as a SafeDC system as the panels are reduced down to 1 volt from ~35V in the event that the power to the inverter is shutdown. The inverters are also set up with arc detection so if overheating through arcing occurs then the inverter can shut down. This makes it one of the safest and most productive system on the market.

UT Power in partnership with Bouygues completed three important energy saving measures to a Peterborough School at the start of 2018.

The school had new heating controls to improve consumption on what was an on off system of electrical heaters, new LED lighting throughout and a 20kW Solar PV array.

The solar pv alone will save 8.3 tonnes of CO2 in the first year by generating a forecast 18,552kWh of renewable energy.

The LED installation on average will reduce the lighting bill by just over 50%.

The Solar PV system was designed as an East West system from Van Der Valk to achieve the required output on a tight fitting roof. This innovative solution allowed the client achieve the desired output whilst keeping costs down by not having to use multiple roofs. As usual for UT Power the system is set up on the SafeDC SolarEdge system for increased yield and safety.

Utility trade not only look after over 4,000 businesses across the UK. We also work with domestic customers. Before Christmas 2016, over a period of 4 weeks, we installed a 1.82kw, roof mounted Solar PV, replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs and installed 2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared Panel into a house in Northamptonshire. The client got in touch through a recommendation as she wanted to become more energy efficient and reduce her carbon footprint.

LED (replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs)
Annual Cost of Current Lighting: £361.89
Annual Cost of LED Lighting: £49.53
Savings in Year 1: £312.33

Solar (1.82kw, 7 x 265w Poly Panels, immersion controller & Solis Inverter)
Savings in Year 20; £9,051.61

Infrared (2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared)
Current Annual Consumption:  6,552kWh
Infra-Red Panels Annual Consumption: 1,528.8kWh
Reduction on current consumption: 76%

Client Testimonial
“Thanks again Phil for all your kind help & attention from start to finish, includes Sophie also, everything went really smoothly & to schedule, couldn’t have gone better”

HMP Stocken is the first prison in the UK to benefit from a Solar PV installation. The new house block has a 69kW installation of 270W Jinko solar panels and 3 SolarEdge 3 phase inverters.

UT Power’s installation is forecast to produce almost 60,000kWh in its first year saving more than 26 tonnes of CO2 emmissions.

Reducing carbon footprints and learning coming hand in hand…

The up take of solar has been especially strong with schools for Utility Trade in the first quarter of 2017.    Utility Trade completed several installations of Solar PV for a mixture of schools, academies and private schools in the first three months of the year.

The installations ranged from 10.8kW to 49.8kW and will be providing the schools with a 109,008kWh a year in solar generated electricity. This will reduce their carbon footprint by 48.9 tonnes of CO2 a year and save them thousands in energy costs.

We installed SolarEdge inverters and optimisers to increase the system yields, improve safety and ease maintenance in the future. The schools are also using the monitoring platform as teaching aids to involve the children in the schools green ambitions.

In the case of Witham Hall the school requested that the panels were an all black panel to blend in with the roof of their new build sports hall and the results were fantastic.

Veterinary groups are seeing a continuous increase in energy demand and costs as technology develops and power becomes a vital part for this business sector.

Pool House Veterinary Group saw this and wanted to secure a long term solution.

Utility Trade installed a 25Kw Solar PV system with great results;

87 JA Solar PV panels.

Over the 20years:

£74’000 Savings in electricity

£55’700 in FIT’s

£11’960 in Export Tariff

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

After completing the feasibility on site Utility Trade sized up a 15.675 Kw System, Based on 55 285W JA Solar mono PV.  Generating 13,025 Kwh in the first year alone.

Total Benefits: 

Electric Savings: £36’793.52

FiT Income: £36’614.44

Export Tariff: £7’582.41

Total Benefits: £80’990.36

*20 year predicted