Solarcentury is a business which designs and installs solar systems for buildings in the UK and continental Europe, and provides wholesale solar products.
History
The company was founded in 1998 by Jeremy Leggett, the CEO, and is based in central London. It currently employs over 80 staff and has a turnover of over £14 million/year.
Most of the work of Solarcentury is in solar photovoltaics (PV) for which it is the UK market leader, but solar thermal systems are also provided. Systems are installed both in new build and retro-fitted to existing buildings.
In 2007 Solarcentury won an Ashden Award for their work in sustainable energy.[ [http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/solarcentury Solarcentury, UK] ] ] Installations
One of the most well known Solarcentury installations is the CIS tower in Manchester,[ UK, where solar cladding was used to replace the old, damaged cladding and create a solar PV array with a generation capacity of 391 kWp.]Solarcentury completed over 550 large installations, and thousands of home installations,between 1999 and the end of 2006, including 30 installations for schools, 150 for public sector orcharitable organisations and 300 for businesses. The total installed capacity at the end of 2006 was about 3 MWp [ [http://www.ashdenawards.org/files/reports/Solarcentury_2007_Technical_report.pdf Ashden Awards case study on Solarcentury (175kb)] ] .
Charitable work
Solarcentury set up the charity SolarAid, which aims to use solar PV technology to alleviate poverty in developing countries.
See also
* Solar energy
* Photovoltaics
* Solar thermal energy
References
External links
* [http://www.solarcentury.com/ Official website]
