Thomas Edison 1931
Photovoltaic Office Buildings
Any south or south-east/west facing office building can benefit from Photovoltaics. Roof space is predominately useless space. PV is a way of generating a fantastic income from an otherwise useless space.
Office buildings tend to operate during the day, when the sun is out, and the panels are producing electricity. This means that all of the electricity will get used. This is the best way to maximise your income from the PV array. The reason for this is simple, to buy the electricity will cost more than the payment you would recieve from exporting the electricity.
Therefore all the electricity produced will be used thus saving the cost of the electric that would otherwise have been bought in.
To get an idea of the potential returns for the best suited size for office buildings please see 10-50kW PV range and over 50kW range
In order to see how the feed-in tariff and export tariff work please see Feed in tariff
