Lightweight Solar Solutions supplier Solivus works together with Green Energy Marketplace Urbanchin for a UK Commercial Solar offer.
The lightweight PV technology from Solivus will now be compatible with the Urbanche Digital Energy Trading platform, with which companies can trade solar energy and parts that are generated on their sites with other local companies or supply chain partners. Solivus claims that linking his PV solutions with the trading platform will enable large British real estate owners to “retain more value” from their generation on the roof, “lower costs” and create a “self-sufficient energy ecosystem”.
Urbanchhain CEO Somayeh Taheri called the partnership a “transformational unlocking” that changes “under -utilized roofs into powerful energy hubs for income”. Taheri added: “By scaling solar energy past solutions with one site, we can enable large owners of real estate to take control of their energy future, reduce the dependence on volatile energy markets and stimulate the scale”.
Solivus CEO Jo Parker-Swift said that the partnership “creates a significant opportunity, not only in terms of profitability and carbon reductions, but also the wider energy transition.”
Solivus specializes in lightweight solar PV modules, which can be installed on buildings that may not be able to support the weight of traditional solar modules. In November last year, the company completed a PV installation of £ 2 million on the roof of Farnborough Airport in Hampshire. Approximately 4,000 lightweight solar modules, with a combined generation capacity of 1,700 kWp, were installed on two aircraft hangars, the airport terminal, the control tower and the airport hotel from the airport. The installation offers up to 25% of the annual electricity needs of the airport.
Ways to share electricity from domestic solar PV are also investigated by other companies. Last week, energy supplier E.on UK announced that it has signed a strategic investment agreement with the Australian company Allume Energy to bring the Solshare technology of the latter, so that solar energy of a single PV installation on the roof can be shared with several houses on the VK.
