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Q1 2014: 11 MW installed

Case Study:

In January 2014 Lynx Energy formed a partnership with Kingspan Energy and mobilised at 3 significantly sized

sites, the largest being 5.8 MW installation at Jaguar Land Rover’s new engine manufacturing site in

Wolverhampton - officially the country’s largest on roof PV

installation

Due to the ROC degression deadline, Lynx had a definite deadline of practical completion of mid March in order for the installation to qualify for the higher rate. This pressure, combined with “the stormiest period of weather experienced by the UK for at least 20 years”, a winter that “has had more very severe gale days than any other winter season in a series from 1871” (Met Office) to make for one of the most challenging installations Lynx has undertaken. The deadline has been met without incident. At peak, a team of 20 installers were laying over 500 kW daily, whilst a separate team of 4 electricians were dealing with over 300km of DC cable that the installation required.

At the same time, a team of 8 deployed to the Kingspan manufacturing plant near Selby. Using Avasco east/west mounting frames and Kingspan mini rails on the southern aspects, Lynx installed 9,299 Yingli 270 & 240 watt panels. The 2.475 MW installed capacity is estimated to produce an annual output of just under 2 million kWh and provide Kingspan with over 60% of their energy requirements for the site.

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Utilising a mixture of string and central inverters, we concurrently installed another 6,000 Yingli 250 watt panels at the new Regional Distribution Centre for Aldi in Goldthorpe, south Yorkshire. Again using east / west aspects, over 1,117,000 kWh of clean energy will be generated, saving over 480 tonnes of CO2 annually.

As a separate project, Lynx Energy’s domestic division won a regional contract to install PV systems sold from IKEA’s stores. To date, we have installed just over 30 <4kWp systems in the Yorkshire / Lancashire regions and anticipate this to grow to 10 installations per week in the coming months.

Not content with this activity and workload, we have also undertaken

several domestic direct sales including the installation of 72

Solarcentury C21e solar slates on a barn renovation in Newcastle.

The final projects begun and installed in the first quarter of

2014 are several sites of 100+ kW each on behalf of Kingspan’s

client, a property developer in and around the South East of

the country.

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Q1 2014: the 1st quarter in numbers

510 km DC cable

40,000 modules

45 distinct sites

2010 strings

39 G59 connections

3,440 tonnes CO2 saved per year

350 inverters

8,000,000 kWh generated annually