Off-site Renewables
Not all sites are suitable for embedded renewable energy solutions - due to planning restrictions or space limitations - which typically manifests itself in unacceptable paybacks and failing to achieve key objectives.
Off-site produced energy has the advantage of scale, so reducing costs, but has the disadvantage of separating the electricity generation and consumption. Therefore making the connection with an organisation’s commitment to climate change is more difficult to visualise.
However, off-site electricity generation from renewables offers the potential to off-set 100% of electricity consumption. With on-site this is likely to be less. A summary of Darwind's experience of developing both on-site and off-site renewable electricity generation, includes:
- Development of Wind Farms in the UK
- Large scale Biomass CHP development
- World’s largest and most comprehensive evaluation of Solar PV for major retailer
- Large scale roof mounted and ground-based solar PV
- Wind farms in the USA
- Advanced on-site Biomass CHP
- Groundsource (geo-thermal) Heat and Cooling