Nottingham City Council could be on track to save thousands of pounds off its energy bills each year, after installing an innovative new solar array over the car park of its flagship leisure centre.As part of the retrofit programme, the leisure centre has been fitted with solar canopies across 40 car parking spaces that will feed electricity directly into the building, reducing energy demand from the grid at the same time as cutting operating costs. For project delivery partners EvoEnergy and the Solar Cloth Company, the solar carport is a first. Until now, they have only trialled the technology at smaller sites, but this is the first project they confidently describe as being of a ‘commercial scale’. The scheme uses The Solar Cloth Company’s lightweight solar converters and is expected to generate 50MWh per year, reducing the leisure centre’s carbon emissions by around 500 tonnes a year.
Nottingham Solar Carport
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