Delivery firm DPD has bolstered its on-site solar portfolio so that every parcel it delivers will be done so carbon neutrally.
DPD, which had already installed solar PV atop other sites in the UK, completed a new, 1MWp rooftop system at its Oldbury, West Midlands HQ last month.
The system is made up of more than 3,500 panels and will generate roughly 860MWh of electricity each year, 85% of which is forecasted to be used onsite.
The install was carried out as part of DPD’s corporate social responsibility undertaking - dubbed ‘Driving Change’ – and Mark Wilkes, director of technical services at DPD, said it was important for the firm to “partner with like-minded businesses”.
The install was complicated by the region’s Distribution Network Operation – Western Power Distribution – enforcing a 500kWp export limit owing to grid constraints in the immediate area. Installation business EvoEnergy circumvented the limit by fitting an export power control system to constrain the amount of power exported back to the grid.
More than 400 tonnes of CO2 emissions are estimated to be saved each year via the installation which will also deliver feed-in tariff-based revenue for DPD.
