Potato supplier Greenvale has installed 210 solar photovoltaics (PV) panels on the roof at its factory in Floods Ferry, Cambridgeshire.
The panels, which are positioned on the factory's roof in three grids of 70, can produce up to 50kW of electricity an hour by using sunlight to feed three power invertors on the site. The performance of the panels is fed back in live time to Greenvale staff via desk-top recorders.
The supplier says the panels have already been 'highly effective', with the GreenVale Farm Fresh potato line now running almost entirely on renewable energy.
Rob Phillips, Greenvale’s operations and project manager at Floods Ferry said: “Greenvale is dedicated to being a sustainable business and installing solar PV panels is one of our many green initiatives.
'In just four weeks the panels have produced 4,890kW of energy. We will continue to monitor the performance of the panels and then hope to fit more in the next six months to produce a further 200kW on the existing roofs.'
