BRENTFORD FOUNTAIN LEISURE CENTRE NET ZERO

Solar Services Solutions • 14 July 2024

A defining day for solar electricity generation

Brentford Fountain and Leisure Centre solar PV installation successfully generated electricity that was adequate to provide electricity for Brentford Leisure Centre and exported 0.33kW to the grid 16 July 2022. This means that Brentford Leisure Centre equipment (infrastructure) and facilities was depending solely on the electricity generated from the solar panel and was even able to simulataneously export to the national grid. The LED light installed save over 50% of energy and the ASHP provided heating to the centre. The solar PV generated was monitored with Solar Edge

Brentford Fountain Leisure Centre installation was a combination of Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP) - 265kW, Solar Panels - 193.5kWp and LED Lights. 

Solar Services Solutions CEO was the Technical Lead on the Brentford Fountain Leisure Centre project.


The stage 1 air source heat pumps (220kW)

The stage 2 air source heat pump (45kW)

Solar Edge Inverters

These statistics were collected while exporting surplus electricity

These are screenshots of SolarEdge monitor taken at the time of generation

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