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Customer: Elmley Nature Reserve
Increasing Solar for an offgrid farm
Fully Offgrid Farm, Operating a Wedding venue, Glamping, Retreats, Conservation/Wildlife experiences.
With this project our scope of work was to expand the existing solar setup Our scope of work ( Alongside Your Eco ) was to expand their current solar setup by 40+kWp array. With YourEco installing the solar and LEP installing the Solar controller and upgrading their DC distribution system. LEP have also optimised the Energy distribution to maximise the use of batteries and solar. Previous system was only 6kw
After consulting the team at Leading Edge, our experts designed and manufactured the final outcome pictured below.
The fold-down solar frame holds four 160W high-efficiency monocrystalline solar panels with the British-made Leading Edge LE-v150 wind turbine boosting power production. The LE-v150 is specially designed for conditions as experienced at the designated site, where wind speeds can reach 27m/s (60mph).
The cabinet holding the control equipment also houses 128Ah AGM deep-cycle batteries providing 310Ah of stored power on cloudy and still days where there is little input from solar or wind.
The bespoke solution also powers ultrasonic level sensors in the fuel cell.
Using the Victron Cerbo GX, the system can be remotely monitored with RWE alerted when the fuel cell level reaches the point that re-fuelling needs to be organised. This way, the WindCube v2 can remain operating as there is no loss of power to hinder it's performance.
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