Sectors

Warehousing, Manufacturing, and Industrial facilities can use massive amounts of electricity on lighting and heating large factories and buildings, along with industrial machinery and processes.

This makes up a major part of their operating costs which commercial solar panels can reduce drastically. Industrial buildings are typically well suited to rooftop solar installations due to their large flat surface areas.

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Offices can save huge amounts of money on electricity bills through rooftop solar panels and solar carports. Many office buildings are among the least energy efficient commercial buildings out there, with extremely low BER ratings.

An office building can generate anywhere from 50% – 75% of their annual electricity needs through the installation of solar panels. Office buildings can easily install rooftop solar panels on flat or sloped roofs to take advantage of the space available.

Offices also commonly feature car parks which can be used for solar carports to help power the building, or to incorporate electric vehicle chargers.

Learn more about making office buildings more energy efficiency with solar panels. 

Solar panels can help restaurants, hotels, bars, and other businesses in the hospitality sector to tackle rising energy costs by producing their own electricity on site. 

Restaurants and bars often operate on razor thin profit margins, meaning that reducing the amount of electricity drawn from the grid can be an essential lifeline for staying in business.

Bars and restaurants can often install rooftop solar panels with as little difficulty as domestic clients. Larger hotels can avail of significantly large solar PV systems, either installed on their roof tops, or ground mounted arrays if space is available.

Learn more about how businesses in the hospitality sector can protect themselves from rising costs using solar power.

Organisations in the community sector such as sports clubs, community centres, theatres and more can help to save money on their often struggling budgets by using solar panels to meet the majority of their facilities’ electricity needs. 

Public sector organisations can also reduce their costs and advance the government’s climate goals through the installation of solar panels to reduce electricity consumption.

Learn more about how how solar power can have huge benefits for the community sector.

Farms are in a unique position to take advantage of solar panels, with large amounts of open land and typically multiple large buildings on which ground mounted or rooftop solar panels can be installed.

Using solar power for farm machinery can help farmers significantly reduce their electricity bill, and agricultural land can also have a dual use of grazing for some animals alongside solar panels exporting energy to turn a tidy profit.

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Data centres are known to consume huge amounts of electricity in their operations. This is not only their single greatest operating expense, but also places a significant strain on the electricity grid in the area.

Having a significant solar PV installation as part of any new data centre can not only save money on operating costs, but also provide essential energy security.

Learn more about how commercial solar panels can make data centres a more sustainable development.

Solar Farms are the fastest growing source of renewable energy in Ireland, with the ESB targeting nearly 2GW of solar energy capacity by 2030, more than a third of Ireland’s current peak electricity demand.

Commercial solar farms can range in size from smaller installations of 5MW or so, to larger scale solar farms delivering anywhere from dozens to hundreds of Megawatts of electricity in Ireland.