Wales based Dulas, a commercial subsidiary of the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth, mid Wales, the United Kingdom, have recently installed the largest solar power project in Wales, at the National Trust’s Grade I listed property in Llanerchaeron.
The new installation generates a peak output of 37.5kW and works with an existing installation of 7.5kW of solar photovoltaic power, supplying half the power the National Trust house consumes. The Llanerchaeron house is an 18th-century Welsh gentry estate with walled gardens and home farm. The villa was designed in the 1790s, has its own service courtyard with dairy, laundry, brewery and salting house, and walled kitchen gardens, ornamental lake and parkland. The farm is a working organic farm with Welsh Black cattle, Llanwenog sheep and rare Welsh pigs.
The National Trust has committed to reduce their fossil fuel use by 50% within eight years, cutting carbon emissions from heat and electricity by 45%, beating the government’s target of a 34% reduction in CO2 by 2020. The Trust will also reduce water use and develop its own energy sources such as biomass.
Wales is not synonymous with sunshine, in fact it is just as likely to be raining, foggy, overcast or windy and stormy, as it is to be sunny, but this also gives Wales its natural beauty and it’s a people a sense of humor. Let’s hope a big ray of sunshine illuminates the Dulas installation and make it a resounding success.
Visit: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/llanerchaeron/
Via Dulas
