Green light for UKs first combined PV and wind turbine system
August 22nd 2006 Planning permission has been granted to the London Climate Change Agency for the first combined photovoltaic and wind turbine system in the UK.
Southwark Council gave the Agency the nod to install wind turbines to add to the photovoltaic cells on the roof of the new Palestra building, designed by architect Will Alsop, on Blackfriars Road in London. Three floors of the building will become the new headquarters of the London Development Agency and the London Climate Change Agency starting in September 2006. The renewable energy generated by the system will provide renewable electricity to these floors.
The £436,000 project comprises an 84kW renewable energy system – a combination of 63kWp of photovoltaic panels on the roof and 21kW of fourteen building-integrated wind turbines also on the roof. The combined renewable energy system will generate 3,397,000kWh of renewable electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by 3,300 tonnes during its lifetime.
Agency ceo Allan Jones, said the project “demonstrates that even in a multi-occupied building it is possible for a tenant to take control of their own energy supply and reduce carbon emissions. Any building or organisation in London can follow this example."
"A feasibility study for a fuel cell trigeneration system is also under way, which, together with the renewable energy, would supply all of these floors electricity, heating and cooling needs.”
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