Kendal, Cumbria
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Converted mill, six flats
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Sedgewick Mill
A landlord supply feeding six flats, a lift and a communal corridor. High daytime load is what makes a system this size worth its cost.
Six flats, a lift, a communal corridor and a stair light that runs all day. This is the load shape solar is genuinely good at, and it is rarer than the industry pretends.
A landlord supply, not six domestic ones
The array feeds the landlord supply. That keeps the metering simple, keeps the export arrangement in one place, and means the generation is consumed by the building before any of it is offered to the grid.
Fifty-five panels across the south and west slopes of the mill roof, on a ballasted frame that does not penetrate the membrane.
The number that matters
Sixty-one percent self-consumption. On the same tariffs, that single figure is worth more to the payback than the twenty-four kilowatts of nameplate is.
The system
GBP 26,800
GBP 9,740
GBP 3,150
Sixty-one percent self-consumption is the whole story. The mill uses it as it makes it, so almost none of it goes out at the export rate.
Owner, Marta Sobczak
On site
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