Listed building goes solar with Solarcentury’s solar electric slates
Designed by Solarcentury in the UK and launched in March 2011, the C21e slate can be integrated across a wide variety of natural and fibre cement slates, and is gaining popularity with installers looking to widen and differentiate their domestic solar offer. The product, and its counterpart the C21e solar electric roof tile, helped Solarcentury secure a Queens Award for innovation earlier this year.
Elliot Parkhouse, Managing Director, TheGreener Group said: “We’re proud to be Solarcentury Network members, and in particular looking forward to helping more period properties make savings with Solarcentury’s new C21e solar slate. Our solar slate installation was the result of traditional solar modules being rejected at planning stage. Samples of the C21e slate, along with a full listed building application, were given to the local planning office and the consent was passed in the Summer. With so many listed buildings in the Chester area, we’re keen to let the owners of these fantastic properties that they needn’t be left out when it comes to solar.”
Martin White, Head of Products and Services at Solarcentury said: “Over four million homes in the UK have slate roofs, until now their options for going solar were limited to bolt-on modules or semi-integrated systems requiring specialist installation. With our new universal C21e slate, designed to fit straight out of the box, any slate roof can now benefit from going solar, without compromising the country’s roofscape”
The Greener Group installed 3kWp, 66 C21e slates, producing 2500 kWh annually and just over £1,000 per year in Feed in tariff payments, index linked for 25 years.
C21e solar electric slate – product details:
Manufacturer: Solarcentury
PV cell technology: Monocrystalline
Cellefficiency: 17.7%
Wp/m2 : 129
Rating (W): 47
Height (mm): 445
Width (mm): 1210
Depth (mm): 15
Weight (Kg): 4.9
Further information on Solarcentury’s C21e electric slate and other products can be found at http://www.solarcentury.com/homes-uk/sunstation/
Solarcentury will be at the Solar Power UK exhibition at the ICC in Birmingham from Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th October, stand B3/15.
Press Contact
Charlotte Webster, PR Manager, Solarcentury
charlotte.webster@solarcentury.com
+44 (0)7990 583307 / +44 (0)207 8030148
Notes to Editors
The solar PV system information:
Generation yield of 2,550 units (kWh) forecast on 850kWh/ kWp generated, as recommended by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Generation income of £1,104 based on the Government Feed-in Tariff rate of 43.3p per unit generated, index linked for 25 years.
Savings of £166 based on consumption of 1,275 units of electricity in 2011, 13p/ unit saved, assumption of 9% annual electricity price rise.
Export income of £40 based on 1,275 units exported (50% consumption), 3.1p payment for any unit exported.
About Solarcentury
Solarcentury is one of Europe’s fastest growing and most innovative solar photovoltaics (PV) companies. The most experienced solar energy company in the UK, Solarcentury was founded by Chairman Jeremy Leggett in 1998 to design and supply solar energy solutions for the built environment. The organisation has managed the installation of well over 1,000 solar PV turnkey projects. It has helped over 9,000 homes go solar through its supply of systems to housebuilders and through its network of regional associate installers. Solarcentury, nowover 120 staff, is led by CEO Derry Newman and based in London, with staff in the UK, France and Italy. It is the founding company of the schools initiative Solar4Schools and charity for the developing world, SolarAid. In 2008, 2010& 2011, Solarcentury was named the UK’s Fastest Growing Renewable EnergyCompany by UK’s Sunday Times Tech Track 100. In April 2011 it was awarded aQueens Award for Enterprise in innovation. localhost/solarcentury www.solarcentury.co.uk
