Solar

Generate your own electricity. Reduce what you buy from the grid.

For many businesses, electricity is a significant ongoing cost. Solar PV can allow you to generate electricity on your own site, reducing the amount you need to buy from the grid.

But the question isn’t simply whether solar panels can be installed.

It’s whether solar makes commercial sense for your business.

BSUK can assess your electricity use, available space and future requirements to establish the potential opportunity, expected generation and whether the investment stacks up financially.

What does solar need to deliver for your business?

The value of solar depends on how much electricity you use, when you use it and how much of your generation can be used on site.

We can assess:

Current electricity consumption and demand patterns
Operating hours and daytime usage
Available roof, land or car-park space
Roof condition, orientation and shading
Potential solar generation
How much electricity could be used directly
Potential surplus generation
Future energy requirements
Project costs and potential financial return

This helps establish what solar could actually do for your business, rather than simply how many panels could fit on the roof.

Built around your business

The right solar system isn’t necessarily the biggest system.

A system that generates more electricity than your business can use may not provide the best commercial return, while a system that is too small may not make the most of the available opportunity.

BSUK can help establish:

How much solar you need
Based on your electricity consumption, operating patterns and available space.

How much electricity it could generate
Looking at the site, proposed system and expected generation.

How much you could use directly
Considering when your business uses electricity and how that compares with solar generation.

Whether the investment stacks up
Considering project costs, potential savings, surplus generation and future energy requirements.

The objective isn’t simply to generate as much electricity as possible. It is to make the investment work for your business.

Could solar reduce what your business spends on electricity?

Talk to BSUK about your solar opportunity.

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Solar as part of your wider energy strategy

Solar doesn’t need to be considered in isolation.

For some businesses, solar can work alongside battery storage by allowing more generated electricity to be used when it is needed. It may also support growing electricity demand from EV charging and wider electrification.

However, solar, battery storage and EV charging won’t necessarily be the right combination for every business.

That’s why BSUK starts with your energy use, operating patterns and future requirements, rather than starting with a particular technology.

What happens next?

If the assessment identifies a genuine opportunity, BSUK can help you understand the potential solution and coordinate the next steps through specialist delivery partners, from design and planning through to installation and ongoing monitoring.

The starting point is always your business, your energy use and what you are trying to achieve.

You don’t need to commit to an installation just to find out whether solar is suitable.

Find out whether solar makes commercial sense for your business.

Talk to BSUK about Solar.

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