Engen Petroleum’s official photo voltaic supplier SolarSaver has introduced that it has reached the milestone of putting in photovoltaic photo voltaic methods at 150 Engen Petroleum gas stations throughout South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, with extra going dwell every month. The installations complete greater than 6 586 kilowatt peak.
With the most important community of service stations within the nation, this venture is considerably lowering Engen’s reliance on grid energy and considerably lowering its CO2 emissions, in keeping with Engen Petroleum.
The 6 586 kilowatt peak will produce 12 220 794 kilowatt hours inside the first yr. In a serious transfer to scale back its carbon footprint and save vitality prices, Engen Petroleum goals to put in photo voltaic photovoltaic methods in any respect Engen-owned gas stations throughout South Africa, in addition to websites in Botswana and Namibia.
“Photo voltaic can assist companies like gas service stations to slash their electrical energy payments and considerably cut back their carbon footprint,” says Stu Batchelor of SolarSaver. “The gas stations are ready to make use of photo voltaic vitality through the day and revert to the nationwide grid at evening and through inclement climate situations. This permits us the flexibility to save lots of vitality and to take stress off the grid.”
The efficient drop in grid vitality consumption on a typical Engen web site with the brand new photo voltaic PV system put in is about 80 000 kWh’s per yr.
In response to Batchelor, service stations provide distinctive set up areas for photo voltaic PV options on each the comfort retailer roofs and forecourt canopies. These installations can energy a number of points of their companies, together with retail retailer operations.
“With a photo voltaic set up in place, daylight vitality necessities like LED lighting, gas pumps and compressors may be totally met. As well as, vitality for refrigeration and IT infrastructure may be offered by this sustainable vitality supply, resulting in appreciable financial savings on electrical energy prices,” provides Batchelor.
The advantages of switching to photo voltaic may be additional maximised if a enterprise has already applied different energy-saving initiatives. Engen, for instance, is implementing environmental initiatives, together with:
- photo voltaic geysers
- photo voltaic warmth pumps, and
- whole-site conversion to LED lighting.
SolarSaver at the moment helps over 700 main companies to harness the ability of the solar by rent-to-own grid-tied photo voltaic options or hybrid battery installations that present an important backup for when the grid is down.
SolarSaver says that it stays liable for all ongoing monitoring, upkeep and insurance coverage of managed methods.
“We’re in a position to construct these methods economically, managing and sustaining them in widespread geographic places,” says Batchelor.
In response to Batchelor, this strategy to creating renewable vitality accessible throughout a variety of websites will assist Engen cut back its electrical energy prices and obtain its sustainability targets, whereas additionally visibly highlighting {that a} shift to renewable vitality is accessible.
“It has been an actual win for SolarSaver to have the ability to work carefully with the Engen staff, united behind the identical sustainability targets. Whenever you see the photo voltaic panels at Engen service stations across the nation, it creates a higher consciousness of utilizing photo voltaic vitality. This venture demonstrates the potential of photo voltaic PV know-how to create clear vitality methods, serving for instance for different related companies trying to implement sustainable options,” concludes Batchelor.
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