Bentley Factory Solar Panels

This means in the company s centenary year all electricity used to manufacture every bentley is solar or certified green.
Bentley factory solar panels. The bentley factory in crewe built in the 1940s is ideally situated to generate solar power as the saw tooth factory roofs are south facing at an angle of 20 degrees. Bentley motors today reinforces its commitment to sustainable energy with the installation of the uk s largest ever solar car port at its factory headquarters in crewe uk. The installation of 10 000 solar panels which has a capacity of 2 7mw will take approximately six months to complete. Once the new setup is completed in six months the installation will bring bentley s total solar panel count to over 30 000.
Once completed the new solar panels will provide 2 7mw of power to the factory enough to cover a quarter of bentley s total power consumption. The installation has a capacity of 2 7mw and covers 1 378 car parking spaces an area of 16 426m. 100 of bentley s on site electricity produced by either solar panels or purchased as certified green energy crewe 1 st may 2019 bentley motors today reinforces its commitment to sustainable energy with the installation of the uk s largest ever solar car port at its factory headquarters in crewe uk. Crewe 10 april 2018 bentley motors today announces that construction has started on the uk s largest ever solar powered car port at bentley s factory headquarters in crewe uk.
In 2013 a 20 815 panel solar rooftop was installed on top of the factory.