06/11/2023
⚡️G & J Jacks Fraserburgh - 198kw Solar Panel Installation⚡️
We have been so busy recently that we haven’t had a chance to share some of our recent big projects.
G&J Jacks is one of our biggest customers, day to day we take care of all electrical breakdowns along with installing new systems and upgrades, this job however was to install a very large solar system.
This system included 360x 550watt, 2.3meter long by 1.2m wide solar panels on the roof to provide DC power to 3x 60kw inverters at the plant room. All south facing parts of the buildings roof is now covered with solar panels to provide as much power to assist them with their high grid usage with running two big ice machines, 4 big chill plants along with lots of machinery and General power.
On this job we put down 1250 brackets on the roof, using 3000 teck head screws and put 1250 clamps onto those brackets to hold the panels to the brackets. We fabricated and mounted a mix of 4” and 9” cable tray for the cables, run 2150m of DC solar cable back to the buildings plant room. This solar system will assist with providing 30% of their usage by solar. The system should be paid off within 4.5 years if the electricity price does not rise in those years, if so then it will pay back quicker than that.
This job was 12 hour shifts Monday to Friday and lasted 6 weeks, 3 men for 4 weeks then 2 men for 2 weeks. We just got all the outside work done in time for the winter storms starting whilst we did the internal containment, cabling through the building and wiring in the plant room during the bad weather.
Thank you to Steve Andrews at GRE Energy Training for the week training in Dundee back in May.