The three reasons why solar energy is so powerful can be summed up below:
Powering Sustainability – 100% renewable, reliable, and carbon-free energy. All provided alongside helping your organisation making a positive impact of the environment.
Powering Performance – Renewable energy and solar helps businesses become more financially sustainable through reducing operational costs while turning any excess power generated into an additional revenue stream.
Powering Resilience – Decrease your business reliance on the grid to minimise the risk of disruption to your business operations. Pair with solar storage for an even further improved benefit.
Take Control of your Energy
With solar power, you avoid much of the pressure to control your costs and meeting sustainability goals that other businesses face. You do this while maintaining access to the energy you need to power your organisation amid rising energy demands. The need for clean and reliable energy is imperative – the age of fossil fuels is over.
How Can Solar Energy Help Your Business
For many businesses, the most obvious way in which to improve energy performance and reduce reliance on the grid is through solar energy. A renewable energy produced on-site is the epitome of taking control of operating costs while reducing carbon footprint. Solar Photovoltaic (or PV for short) solutions can harvest energy from the sun, generating endless renewable electricity. Now it is possible to further enhance operational resilience by pairing up solar with modern energy storage solutions to store excess electricity for later use. This stored excess becomes invaluable during general grid failures or to lower energy costs during peak times or for larger market movements.
Key Statistics To Know
- Solar energy can typically offset up to 50% of your energy grid consumption with clean power
- Solar energy can lower electricity costs by up to 30%
- Solar energy installations typically have a payback of 5 – 8 years
The Solar Energy Pathway
At Energy Solutions, we understand the need for support at every stage of the journey. From start to finish, we will be with you every step of the way.
- Discover: Working together to form an understanding of your unique solar objectives and begin an initial audit to support planning
- Design: Our team undertakes a detailed site assessment to support the creation of your vision.
- Build: Construction and project teams begin to deploy your solar system
- Operate: Even after going live, support is in place to ensure your solar system is running successfully and optimally. Monitoring and maintenance is central to ensure safety and compliance.
- Identify: Energy experts help to identify opportunities, working alongside your business to meet your objectives.
- Finance: Support in obtaining or suggesting financing and support for your organisation towards building a business case for solar.
- Optimise: Recommendations to energy strategy improvements, continued support and advice for your ever-growing business.
The Incredible Benefits Of Solar
1. Sustainable Business
Solar energy is 100% renewable, and always will be. It is carbon free and almost entirely silent. It is the environmentally sensible option for your business.
2. Reduce Energy Costs
Reducing energy consumption from the grid and also enable predictable operating expense forecasting deep into the future
3. Reduce Reliance On The Grid
Lowering reliance on the energy grid by producing your own electricity on-site. Regardless of the weather.
4. Create New Revenue Streams
By selling excess energy generated by your solar system, you are guaranteed to generate additional revenue for your business.
5. Monetise Unused Space
Previously unused and barren space now produces energy and revenue for your business, optimising your organisation and adding value
6. Improve Reliability
Solar energy is a consistent source of power, effective even on cloudy or rainy days.
How Does Solar Work?
Solar systems will work by converting sunlight during the day into carbon-free guilt-free energy to power your business. Installations are fully automated to generate electricity, with only minor operation and maintenance input needed to maximise generation.
What Are The Options Available?
Roof Mounted
The most straight forward and generally most cost effective, mounting solar panels on the roof is a sure-fire way to generate energy on-site.
Who is it right for?
This option is usually best for facilities with large flat roof space available to them. Roof mounting allows you to monetise unused space by utilising optimal roof space to mount your system.
Floating Solar
By securing floating solar panels to a securely anchored, floating structure your business can monetise previously unused bodies of water.
Who is it right for?
If you have access to a body of water such as water basin or reservoir then this option is right for you. Generally, the waters surface cannot be used for any other purpose and installation of floating solar does not affect the general use of the water.
Ground Mounted
An incredibly versatile option, ground mounting solar panels on the ground, on-site, or at another location is an easy way to get started with solar.
Who is it right for?
If you have access to empty land, on-site or off-site, this option is a simple and straightforward way to get started with solar generation. A complete variety of size and space options are available.
Solar Planning And Design
After an on-site visit, engineers will complete a detailed structural and electrical design customised to your site and energy needs. This will include a system layout, schematics, and generation estimations. Exactly how much energy and money you will save depends on the suitability of your site.
Planning Process:
• Discuss your goals and requirements
• Review your site and electricity usage
• Perform a pricing and benefits analysis
• Present a short proposal
Evaluation Of Your Energy Bill
First in the process is an analysis of your current energy consumption and spend over the past several electricity bills. This information is crucial in designing a solar system that delivers electricity savings by offsetting a certain percentage of your grid consumption with solar. The degree to which this happens will vary from site to site, depending on the following factors:
• System size installed and area
• Amount of sunshine the site receives
• Energy consumption
This analysis allows for a site-specific solar system designed with your sites’ needs in mind. Not just this, but it will help to determine if there are any further energy efficiency measures that can be implemented.
Developing A Solar Solution
After analysis of site viability, utility bill, and energy usage – solar system designers and engineers will tailor your system. You will receive a proposed design of the system that will showcase estimated production, size, and component details.
The available solar resources will be accurately measured and a custom-designed system created. As a result of this, you can rest easy with the knowledge of exactly what your system is expected to produce. You will receive the maximum return on your investment and unlock the ability to accurately forecast your energy spend.
Custom Designed System
1. Maximises the available space for Solar
2. Maximises energy production based on available sunlight
3. Uses the best components that are guaranteed to perform optimally
Financing
These days, solar is a financially viable, affordable source of renewable energy. There are different funding approaches available that suits your individual business goals and objectives. Regardless of the method you choose, Solar will help to save on costs and boost profits.
About Capital Sale
To achieve the best return on investment, funding your new solar system with upfront capital is advisable. This is ideal for companies who would like to invest in solar and enjoy the consistent pay back.
One you have paid for and taken ownership of the solar system, you are then responsible for maintaining it to ensure optimum performance. This option pays for itself quickly in the form of higher savings and profits, freeing up funds to re-invest into your business.
If the responsibility of maintenance is a daunting prospect, then it is possible to pass this on to another organisation to manage.
In a nutshell, the main benefits of this option are:
• Greater savings over the system lifespan
• Maximum ROI
• System can be maintained internally or by another organisation
About Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
PPAs are a financial option for pursuing solar and reducing your energy bill. It is the ideal option for businesses who are not able to meet the initial capital outlay. By purchasing the low-cost solar electricity generated by the system installed at your site at a discounted rate for the term of the contract, you gain access to the incredible benefits of solar without as much of the hassle.
In this situation, the solar system is owned, operated, and maintained by the installer.
In a nutshell, the main benefits of this option are:
• No capital outlay needed
• Immediate electricity savings
• No ownership responsibilities
• Simple purchase of generated power
Deployment Of A New Installation
In order to ensure your new solar solution is installed with the highest safety standards and is built correctly to support your business goals, project managers will liase with you to develop an installation plan. This is so that installation causes minimum disruption to your business operations.
The team will efficiently install the solar system on-site, performing compliance checks to ensure the high standard of industry-leading workmanship is present throughout.
Delivery Of A Comprehensive Solution
Every solar installation is customised specifically to the customer’s needs – optimising the return on investment and prioritising what the customer values above all else.
In order to optimise the solar solution, it is a comprehensive end-to-end solar journey. It begins with a review of your business goals to confirm that solar is indeed the correct energy solution for your business. All the way from solution development, to proposal, to construction. During the course of this journey, the cost-efficiency of the proposed solar system is maximised by designing a solution optimising space usage, production, and utilising the highest quality equipment available.
Once your solar solution has been installed and is operational, it is possible to visualise and monitor energy consumption and usage through integrated energy management software. This gives you complete clarity when it comes to power generation, savings, and performance.
Specialised teams for operation and maintenance will ensure your solar system is always up and running at optimal conditions. By continually monitoring your solar system and addressing issues promptly, the assurance that solar system guarantees are always met is fulfilled. Industry-leading warranties and guarantees ensure your product is always working to its full capacity.
Why Energy Marketing and Trading?
With over twenty years of experience in the wider energy market, we have developed expertise in everything energy – including solar project implementation. Our approach to energy is slightly different from other suppliers. We pride ourselves on accessibility and are always reachable to our customers, something that is crucial during the implementation of a new Solar PV project.
Our knowledgeable experts have an accomplished and proven track record in the energy industry, as well as a wealth of solar projects already completed.
When you choose us, you choose the best solutions:
- Strong relationships with fantastic equipment suppliers
- Industry-leading warranties and guarantees
- Operating and Maintenance support guaranteeing maximum longevity
- Supreme health and safety knowledge and implementation
- Outstanding range of energy technologies and fully-integrated energy solutions
Solar Project Additions
Battery Storage
A resilient source of energy for your business to use should be seen as imperative. You need certainty that whatever happens in the wider world, the lights stay on in the factory.
The energy grid is increasingly volatile, energy demand keeps rising, finite site capacity and intermittent renewable generation make battery storage a central part of any strong energy strategy.
Our energy storage solutions are at the forefront of the field, utilising some of the most state-of-the-art technology.
Energy Insight
In todays’ world, operation efficiency and cost reduction are absolutely essential.
This makes visibility of energy usage and the ability of proactive energy management crucial to a successful business. If you know everything there is to know about your energy, it makes it far easier to manage.