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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