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Mark Group has installed 8,000 solar panels on roof of Wolseley UK’s National Distribution Centre in Leamington Spa
Mark Group has installed eight thousand solar panels on the roof of Wolseley UK’s National Distribution Centre (NDC) in Leamington Spa. A roof area of 13,000 m2 has been covered with JA Solar Polycrystalline panels, along with accompanying Fronius inverters, at Wolseley UK’s head office site.
The installation is rated at just over 2 MW generating capacity and could produce £6.5mn over 20 years under the government’s feed-in tariff for commercial buildings. Over a year, the system should generate about 10% more energy than is consumed at Wolseley UK’s NDC.
Chris Roberts, Head of Solar, Mark Group said: ‘The rise in energy prices and the levelling off of installation costs means that 2014 is a sweet spot for businesses installing solar PV. The government’s feed-in tariff continues to fall slowly, so now is the time to invest in solar to obtain the best payback. Wolseley’s investment in this installation should be completely repaid in around seven years, which means the NDC will receive free energy thereafter. Wolseley UK will also achieve carbon savings of around 1,300 tonnes per year, helping to improve the Leamington Spa site’s environmental performance, which is already rated by BREEAM as very good.’
