In September 2022 we were proud to complete a 35.49kW installation of Solar PV for Mailbox DM Ltd, a direct mail marketing company who were seeking to lower both energy costs from the grid and also carbon emissions from their operations.

In total, 78 455w Monocrystalline panels were mounted to a flat roof of the building. We purposely selected this roof due to its greater orientation towards south and therefore it’s greater energy generation potential; the installation went seamlessly and was completed in 5 days.

We also included an online monitoring system to allow our client the ability to view the status of the system and monitor generation levels of their new array.

Mailbox DM’s PV array will provide the business with 29,267.54 kWh a year in green solar harvested energy and will reduce their carbon footprint by 13.1 tonnes of CO2 in the first year alone. This is the equivalent of a car travelling 39,313 miles or 655 trees growing in one year! This system will have paid for itself through savings made in year 3 of its operation and will provide Mailbox DM Ltd savings of £106,044.43 by year 10 based on energy market costs at time of install.

UPDATE!!

Mailbox DM were so thrilled with the performance of the PV array and the savings it was providing, they contacted us and asked if we could install a second PV system on their building and this time include batteries. Mailbox wanted batteries as to increase saving opportunities by collecting, storing and using any surplus energy from the array, which would usually be exported back to the grid. We will shortly be installing a 16.38kW array consisting of 36 455w Monocrystalline panels and an 11.6 kWh battery storage system.

This installation will generate 13,415.22kWh per annum and remove 6 tonnes of CO2 from their operations each year. This system will have paid for itself through savings made in year 4 of its operation and will provide Mailbox DM Ltd savings of £76,474.99 by year 10 based on energy market costs at time of install.

Both systems will provide combined savings of £182,519.42 for Mailbox DM Ltd by year 10 based on energy market costs at time of install and eliminate 191 Tonnes of CO2 from their carbon footprint.

In March this year we completed a 49.5kW installation of Solar PV at the new academy in Ely.

In total, 180 275w Polycrystalline panels were fitted on two different pitches of the numerous roofs; the installation went seamless and was completed in 3 days.

We installed x2 25kW SolarEdge inverters and x90 power optimisers to increase the system yields, improve safety and ease maintenance in the future. We also included the monitoring system, so the school staff had a clear monitoring portal to view the status of the system and generation of their new array.

Littleport Academy’s PV array will provide the school with 43,141kWh a year in solar energy and will reduce their carbon footprint by 19.4 tonnes of CO2 in the first year alone. This is the equivalent of a car travelling 58,219 miles or 970 trees growing in one year!

In March this year we installed 50kW of Solar PV on the University of London’s Senate House.

184 x 270w panels were installed on the roof of Senate House, which will generate 46,533kWh worth of electricity annually. This will reduce their carbon footprint by 20.1 tonnes of cO2 in year 1 alone. This is equivalent of a car travelling 62721 miles or 1045 trees growing in 1 year! We installed 2 x 25kW SolarEdge inverters and 92 x power optimisers to increase the system yields, improve safety and ease maintenance in the future

Danemill Primary School Annexe has just been refurbished and will reopen as an adult learning centre. As part of the refurbishment and continued commitment from Leicestershire County Council to make their property portfolio more sustainable the buildings now have a 25kW solar array.

The system comprises of 93 275W Jinko SolarEdge optimised pv modules, is forecast to generate 22,500kWh and avoid 10 tonnes of CO2 emmissions in year one.

Over the last few months UT Power have completed several Solar PV installations at two of the country’s most famous Racecourses. The Centaur building at the entrance to Cheltenham Racecourse has now got a 50kW array on it that can be seen from the road running past the course. The specification for this was that it needed to compliment the existing building so an all black panel was used (174 x JA Solar 285W) and an all black mounting kit.

The system comprises of 174 285W mono panels and 2 x 25kW SolarEdge inverters. The installation went seamlessly and was completed in 3 days. It included the use of a 360 degree 25 meter Roto telehandler to lift the pallets onto the roof.

The system is forecast to generate 49,715kWh in it’s first year saving over 22 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Newmarket Racecourse has had 5 systems installed across its sites. An 11kW on the Hostel of the National Stud, 2 30kW systems at the front of the July Course and 2 systems on the Rowley Mile at the sites office block and workshop.

As the offices and July Course were going to be visible arrays for guests to the site as well as when the courses are on TV they have again opted for an All black panel for those sites. The Workshop and Hostel are both out of the way so a 270W polycrystalline panel was utilised .

In total 143 270W polycrystalline panels and 180 280W monocrystalline panels were fitted. All on SolarEdge optimised systems to improve safety, maintenance and annual yield. The sites are forecast to generate 88,103kWh in the first year and save over 39 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Both The Rowley Mile and Cheltenham Racecourses have also had SolarEdge Firefighter Gateways fitted to show the SafeDC function of the optimised system working in the event the fire service is needed on the sites.

UT Power work with Architects, Principle Contractors and M&E consultants on many projects. Last November we completed a 20kW, 74 panel flat roof installation for Highcross Building Services on a new block of student accommodation in Leicester.

The system took a day to install on the flat roof after a careful design and consultation period to ensure that the various obstacles (flues, lift shafts, etc) were worked around.

It is forecast to generate 17,812kWh and avoid around 8 tonnes of CO2 emissions in it’s first year of generation.

The system is powered by a SolarEdge inverter and optimisers making it not only generate more over a normal string inverter set up but also massively more safe due to its SafeDC on AC isolation and arc detection settings.

UT Power have a vast experience working on new build projects and helping with solar pv design, DNO connections and installation. We are happy to talk through projects and assist with any questions contractors have when needing a specialist Solar PV company.

UT Power provide an SMSTS qualified project manager for all their installations to ensure they go smoothly from planning to delivery and installation.

In January 2018, UT Power installed an 11kW Solar PV at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre in partnership with Bouygues Energy Services.

In January 2018, UT Power installed an 11kW Solar PV at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre in partnership with Bouygues Energy Services.

The system was designed to have as little visual impact on the site and included black monocrystalline solar panels and black mounting kit.

Project managed by Craig Tewley the site had a number of obstacles to overcome including a imitation slate tiled roof containing asbestos.  Under our roofers supervision the asbestos removal company took away a number of asbestos tiles to allow us to replace them and fit the roof hooks supplied by Solar Limpets.

The system is forecast to generate 9,835kWh and avoid 4.4 tonnes of CO2 emissions in it’s first year.  The savings on electricity for even this small size commercial system is over £34,000 over 20 years.

The system is fully optimised on the SolarEdge platform making it safe and also benefits from the additional yield given through the on roof electronics.

During the latter part of the summer, 2018, One Leisure St Neots have had 110 270W panels installed on their leisure center.  The system is a SolarEdge system optimised on P600 for full vision of how the system operates and to benefit from the range of safety and additional yield generation features.

The system is forecast to generate 27,915kWh and save 12.5 tonnes of CO2 in the first year.

SolarEdge Optimised panels give a minimum of a 2% yield increase, provide added safety features, panel level monitoring showing generation data, improved fault finding data and an extra two years on the inverter warranty. The optimisers allow the panels to perform independently and therefore the strings are not brought down to the lowest performing panel as in a traditional string inverter set up. Additionally any panel can work in any system meaning that if you need to replace a panel for any reason you would not need to find the specific sized panel to match the array. The system is classed as a SafeDC system as the panels are reduced down to 1 volt from ~35V in the event that the power to the inverter is shutdown. The inverters are also set up with arc detection so if overheating through arcing occurs then the inverter can shut down. This makes it one of the safest and most productive system on the market.

UT Power in partnership with Bouygues completed three important energy saving measures to a Peterborough School at the start of 2018.

The school had new heating controls to improve consumption on what was an on off system of electrical heaters, new LED lighting throughout and a 20kW Solar PV array.

The solar pv alone will save 8.3 tonnes of CO2 in the first year by generating a forecast 18,552kWh of renewable energy.

The LED installation on average will reduce the lighting bill by just over 50%.

The Solar PV system was designed as an East West system from Van Der Valk to achieve the required output on a tight fitting roof. This innovative solution allowed the client achieve the desired output whilst keeping costs down by not having to use multiple roofs. As usual for UT Power the system is set up on the SafeDC SolarEdge system for increased yield and safety.

Utility trade not only look after over 4,000 businesses across the UK. We also work with domestic customers. Before Christmas 2016, over a period of 4 weeks, we installed a 1.82kw, roof mounted Solar PV, replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs and installed 2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared Panel into a house in Northamptonshire. The client got in touch through a recommendation as she wanted to become more energy efficient and reduce her carbon footprint.

LED (replaced 38 bulbs with LED bulbs)
Annual Cost of Current Lighting: £361.89
Annual Cost of LED Lighting: £49.53
Savings in Year 1: £312.33

Solar (1.82kw, 7 x 265w Poly Panels, immersion controller & Solis Inverter)
Savings in Year 20; £9,051.61

Infrared (2 x 350w Far Infrared Panels and 1 x 700w Far Infrared)
Current Annual Consumption:  6,552kWh
Infra-Red Panels Annual Consumption: 1,528.8kWh
Reduction on current consumption: 76%

Client Testimonial
“Thanks again Phil for all your kind help & attention from start to finish, includes Sophie also, everything went really smoothly & to schedule, couldn’t have gone better”

HMP Stocken is the first prison in the UK to benefit from a Solar PV installation. The new house block has a 69kW installation of 270W Jinko solar panels and 3 SolarEdge 3 phase inverters.

UT Power’s installation is forecast to produce almost 60,000kWh in its first year saving more than 26 tonnes of CO2 emmissions.

Reducing carbon footprints and learning coming hand in hand…

The up take of solar has been especially strong with schools for Utility Trade in the first quarter of 2017.    Utility Trade completed several installations of Solar PV for a mixture of schools, academies and private schools in the first three months of the year.

The installations ranged from 10.8kW to 49.8kW and will be providing the schools with a 109,008kWh a year in solar generated electricity. This will reduce their carbon footprint by 48.9 tonnes of CO2 a year and save them thousands in energy costs.

We installed SolarEdge inverters and optimisers to increase the system yields, improve safety and ease maintenance in the future. The schools are also using the monitoring platform as teaching aids to involve the children in the schools green ambitions.

In the case of Witham Hall the school requested that the panels were an all black panel to blend in with the roof of their new build sports hall and the results were fantastic.

Veterinary groups are seeing a continuous increase in energy demand and costs as technology develops and power becomes a vital part for this business sector.

Pool House Veterinary Group saw this and wanted to secure a long term solution.

Utility Trade installed a 25Kw Solar PV system with great results;

87 JA Solar PV panels.

Over the 20years:

£74’000 Savings in electricity

£55’700 in FIT’s

£11’960 in Export Tariff

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

Parr Automotive, a well established MOT and car servicing company based in Market Harborough gave Utility Trade the go ahead to install Solar PV. Due to their ever increasing demand for energy this was the perfect solution to their needs.

After completing the feasibility on site Utility Trade sized up a 15.675 Kw System, Based on 55 285W JA Solar mono PV.  Generating 13,025 Kwh in the first year alone.

Total Benefits: 

Electric Savings: £36’793.52

FiT Income: £36’614.44

Export Tariff: £7’582.41

Total Benefits: £80’990.36

*20 year predicted