Tasker Partnership, Retford

Tasker Partnership are a fruit production company based in the Nottinghamshire countryside, specialising in growing the best quality strawberries and raspberries which are sold to UK supermarkets. Alongside the polytunnels where the fruit is planted and grown, the site also includes mobile living accommodation and a state of the art packhouse, where the picked fruit is packed and refrigerated prior to dispatch.
Tasker Partnership engaged with GB Solar to present a solar PV solution for their 653sqm packhouse. The proposed generation would support the running of the warehouse's power and the workers onsite accommodation.
We proposed a 231.66kWp capacity system which would see a payback within 3 years of the initial investment. We installed 572 panels onto the fibre cement roof, inverted using x2 100kW Solis Inverters.
Our initial design estimated an annual generation of 189,000kWh's per annum, though the site was under a strict zero export restriction. Our studies indicated the site would still self-consume around 90% of the power capable of being produced, and this has since shown to be very accurate as almost a year on from installation, the system has delivered over 155,000kWh's of consumed power, with two months still to be generated at the time of writing (19th September 23').