Solar Panels for Farms
Solar Panels For Farms
CK Solars can provide the best solar panels for farms in the UK. We have:
- Over 20 years in the commercial solar business.
- The skills and expertise to design, install and maintain solar panels at scale.
- A track record of working with solar systems up to 6MW in size.
- Full certification
- More than 700 happy customers!
If you’re a landowner, farmer or other player in the rural and agricultural economy and are looking at installing a solar power system on your buildings or land, CK Solars can be the partner to bring your project to reality.
If you want more information about the advantages and opportunities of a solar panel system for your farm, keep reading.
Years Experience
Why Solar Panels for Farm Use are Booming
Farming could be described as the oldest use of solar energy. For 12,000 years humans have been using the power of the sun to grow plants, either to harvest as crops or to supply feed for animals. Whatever farms produce, it starts with sunlight.
Now there are new ways for farmers to efficiently, effectively and profitably use solar energy to generate electricity with solar panels. Rising energy costs have been among the many things that are increasing costs for UK farmers and cutting into the profitability of their businesses. And at the same time, farmers, their customers and the public are all more aware of the need for sustainability and are placing a greater value on reducing agriculture’s impact on the environment.
With all that happening, it’s not surprising that more and more farmers in the UK are turning wasted roof space or unproductive corners of land into a productive and cost-saving solar power installation for farms.
The benefits of solar panels for farm use include:
- Large reductions in electricity costs
- Protection from volatile energy prices
- Independent power supply during outages
- Income from selling energy to the grid
- A high rate of return on investment
- Demonstrating your green credentials
- Adding value to your farm or business
Solar Panels for Farm Buildings – A Perfect Match
Solar power is an efficient and effective source of renewable energy – it’s now the UK’s largest single source of green electricity, and the amount of installed solar power is growing year on year.
Farms and agricultural premises are ideal locations for solar power installations. Farms are often high users of electricity in cases such as refrigerated warehouses, grain stores, dairies, food processing and livestock and poultry sheds. So, farms have a constant demand for electricity, and a solar installation can fulfil much or all of this demand on-site. This means independence from both changes in price and interruptions in supply.
And when thinking about solar panels for a farm, the key advantage is that farms often have space that other commercial sites do not. Barns and sheds provide large amounts of roof space that is otherwise entirely unused. Unproductive parcels of land can also be turned into cost-saving or even profit-generating assets with the siting of a solar panel array. Even sacrificing a small proportion of agricultural land for solar panels can produce financial and operational benefits.
Solar Panels for Your Farm – Business Sense
Implementing and demonstrating eco-friendly credentials is all well and good, but farms are businesses – and often ones with very thin and fragile margins. So it’s good to be able to state that solar panels for farms offer extremely good returns and low risks.
At current material and installation costs, a typical farm-sized solar panel array will see an ROI of 10-15 per cent, and in some cases, it could be as high as 20 per cent. That’s significantly better than a normal savings account and higher than most other business investments.
Fortunately, few things are as predictable as the sun rising each day! Although the exact nature of the payments and grants available for installing solar panels and feeding surplus energy to the grid has changed over the years, renewable energy for businesses has been consistently encouraged and supported by governments, and you can be confident that this will continue into the future. The price and performance of photovoltaic panels, inverters and other associated equipment continues to drop. These systems have no moving or mechanical parts, so maintenance is minimal. All this makes for a low-risk and very predictable investment.
Solar panels are also classed as plant and machinery for business purposes, so are eligible for capital allowances, writing off the cost against profits. This boosts the ROI and cuts the effective cost of each unit of electricity your farm’s new solar installation produces.
CK Solars Commercial Solar Panels for Farms
CK Solars is a family run business with over 20 years of experience in the forefront of the commercial solar energy industry. We have the equipment, knowledge and dedication to offer our clients the best service and the optimal installation at the most cost-effective price.
If you choose to power your farm with a solar installation from CK Solars, we don’t disappear as soon as the panels are up. We can provide comprehensive aftercare services, including ongoing maintenance and cleaning to keep your panels at their peak performance.
If you’re interested in solar panels for farm use, contact us to discuss your requirements and to receive a no-obligation quote.
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