Once complete, the investment could ultimately see ABP\u2019s 21 ports home to 100,000 solar panels generating up to 22,400,000kWh of clean electricity each year \u2013 enough to boil more than 1.12 billion kettles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are confident that this is just the beginning for ABP. We still have significant potential to further develop our ports to generate yet more clean energy, further reducing the carbon footprint both of our business and of our customers\u2019 operations,\u201d said Chris Garton, ABP Director, Asset Management.<\/p>\n
Solar potential<\/strong><\/p>\n The solar arrays will principally be added to the roofs of ABP\u2019s 1.4 million sq m of covered storage space across the ports. The energy generated will power port operations for ABP and its customers, with excess power fed into the National Grid.<\/p>\n Gary Sucharewycz, director at Custom Solar, which has a three-year solar installation framework agreement with ABP, said: \u201cThe scale of this investment in solar arrays will make ABP one of the largest UK generators and users of solar energy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey have recognised not only the benefits of minimising the impact of operations on the environment but the value in the security of energy supply that solar offers.\u201d<\/p>\n One scheme covering 23,000 sq m on multiple warehouses at Immingham, will become one of the UK\u2019s largest rooftop solar installations when the project is complete in 2018. It is one of two locations set to go live by March 2018, together totalling 4.5MW.<\/p>\n ABP is fast emerging as a significant operator in the renewable energy market, with the current proposals representing a 250% increase on its existing 8MW capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Associated British Ports says it plans to build a further 20MW of solar arrays which will make it one of the largest corporate solar power producers in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11332,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions\/11332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11330"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}