Canadian Solar - Make The Difference Magazine

EXETER, UNITED KINGDOM 1.08 kWh per m 2 per day
UK WEATHER SERVICE
PREDICTS SOLAR ENERGY
FOR THE NEXT
25 YEARS, AT LEAST
The United Kingdom’s national weather service, the
MET office, has installed Canadian Solar’s famously
reliable CS6P-M modules at its Exeter Headquarters.
As a world-renowned provider of 24/7 weather, climate
and environmental forecasts and research, the Met
Office’s Exeter HQ Energy Centre sought a reliable source
of clean energy that would reduce CO 2
emissions and
complement their existing sustainability initiatives.
conditions at locations around the world. The new
system is already generating around 1,000 kWhs of
electricity per day - enough to meet the demand of one
of the organization’s three supercomputers used to
carry out research into climate change.
They decided on a 1000 module, 250 kWp rooftop PV
system from Canadian Solar, not least because the
panels have a 25-year warranty and have proven themselves
to be dependable under widely varying weather
Installed by SunGift Solar, a renewable energy specialist
offering customized solutions in the UK, this PV system is
one of the largest rooftop installations in the UK. “When
you’re carrying out thousands of installations every
year, you need top quality modules from a manufacturer
that has a trusted global reputation,” said Gabriel
Wondrausch, Managing Director of SunGift Solar.
“That is why we specify Canadian Solar modules for many
of our jobs. They have that distinctive quality – bankability –
which gives us absolute confidence that the modules will
continue to perform at a high level and give consistent
results throughout their lifetime,”
said Gabriel Wondrausch.
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