Media articles about Solarcentury.
Building Magazine: Savills offers PV advice on Feed-in tariffs
Property firm teams up with Solarcentury to encourage developers to make most of feed-in tariffs.
PV specialist Solarcentury has teamed up with real estate advisor Savills to help property companies take advantage of feed-in tariffs for renewable energy.
Feed-in tariffs pay a guaranteed rate of return for up to 25 years which now make investing in renewable technology a viable proposition.
The firms said demand for information on how to incorporate PV panels into buildings had prompted the move.
The service will be offered as part of Savills corporate real estate offer and will include financial analysis, design, planning, project management and ongoing support.
Farmers Weekly: Solar cash for farmers as Feed-in Tariffs inspire new generation
The average barn roof could be earning more than £20,000 a year by generating electricity through p
hoto-voltaic (PV) panels. That's the claim of British solar power company Solarcentury, which says that the recently-announced arrival of Feed-in Tariffs has shortened the payback period for PV considerably.
A big, barn-roof-mounted array of PV panels totalling 400sq m can produce up to 60kWp in ideal conditions, it says. Averaged over a year, that would amount to 51,000 kWh (units) of electricity.
The generation tariff for big solar power installations between 10 and 100kW peak capacity is 31.4p/unit. So that 51,000kWh equates to £16,014 for generated electricity, plus £765 for electricity sold back to the grid and £2295 for savings from not consuming power from the grid. That makes a grand total of £19,074.
Inside Housing on Solar for Housing Associations
Inside Housing takes a look at pioneering Brent Housing Partnership - it hopes to be one of the first landlords in the country to retrofit solar panels that can make money by exporting any excess power they generate to the National Grid
What A retrofit of more than 80 properties with solar panels to generate power and money under the government’s new feed-in tariff scheme
Where Brent, north west London
Who Brent Housing Partnership, Solarcentury, Lakehouse
How much £3 million
How long 26 weeks
SAP rating 20 per cent improvement in the SAP rating, rising from a low D to a high C
Environmental impact A 23 per cent improvement in environmental impact, rising from E to a high C
