Ampyr Distributed Energy (ADE) has completed the installation of a 224 KW solar panel on the roof at exotic mushrooms producer Smithy Mushrooms’ Lancashire HQ.
The production facility of the horticultural business has been operational for more than 12 months and houses all companies of the company, including growing specialist mushroom rates. Due to both its size and the need to maintain hot and humid growing conditions, the energy consumption of the site is high.
Behind the generation of the meter, renewable energy generation was the reply from Smithy Mushrooms to this, looking for ADE to install Solar on the roof via his Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) model.
In collaboration with specialized renewable installer Microgen Energy, ADE facilitated the implementation of the 224 KW solar panel on the roof without prior costs for forged mushrooms. The success of the project means that a second phase has already been agreed and that an array of 224 KW will be added to the site in the coming months.
Smithy Mushrooms director John Dorian called the ADE model ‘an absolute game exchanger’ and added: “We have been able to reduce our energy allocation, relieve our activities and emphasize that their mushroom producer is taking the necessary steps to tackle Scope 2 emissions.”
Miles Thomas, Chief Commercial Officer at ADE, repeated this and pointed out that the sustainability of the company “will be an important sales argument for existing and potential customers”.
ADE for solutions behind the meter
In September last year, ADE signed a strategic partnership of £ 50 million with Oakes Energy Services, aimed at an immediate portfolio of rear-meter-meter-mounted solar energy projects supplied by Oakes.
Ampyr Distributed Energy was launched by Singapore head office AGP in early 2024, with a first capital obligation up to £ 100 million.
In one Blog contributed to our sister site Power ±Ade’s CEO of ADE, John Behan, pointed out that installation options with zero -hip costs make the technology much more accessible, which he explained to be felt in the UK: the own examination of the UK Warehousing Association (Ukwa) (Ukwa) have established that the British warehouse of the roof room has the roof room -capacity.
Because the 20% largest warehouses in the United Kingdom can offer 75 million square meters of roof space, it helps to prevent the need to develop new land equivalent to the footprint of 500,000 houses. It is expected that the energy costs with between 40-80%, the UKWa estimates that in aggregated solar PV on the roof can save the industry £ 3 Billon per year.
