We have created a new solar farm with funding from the European Union to provided nearly half of the site’s annual electricity.
The new solar farm, the 370kW solar farm will generate zero carbon electricity that will be supplied directly to the site, significantly reducing carbon emissions, and providing 45% of the site’s annual electricity usage.
Along with the installation of solar panels will be the provision of electric vehicle charging points on site. This will allow any visitors who have access to an electric vehicle to ‘top up’ their vehicles during their stay ‘free of charge’. This rollout of green electric vehicle charging infrastructure within the area will remove some of the barriers to electric vehicle ownership.
The solar farm at South Cliff will significantly reduce carbon by 130 tonnes a year, which is equivalent to the carbon savings associated with powering 22 homes for an entire year.
The shower blocks are heated using ground source heat pumps which use the free heat from the ground to provide low carbon heat. They also have solar thermal panels on the roof, which means much of the hot water used by holidaymakers has been heated by the sun.
In addition, the toilet and shower blocks on the site have motion – tracking lights, so they switch off when the buildings are unoccupied.
The solar farm started on site in March, and has just been completed, making South Cliff Holiday Park one of the greenest static caravan parks within the United Kingdom.
