Eco-Pak Limited
Chatteris based firm Eco-Pak have had over 1500 solar panels installed on their packhouse roof by the Big Solar Co-op, a pioneering UK-wide not-for-profit co-operative. The panels will meet around 75% of the daytime electricity demand on site, saving them around £1 million over 30 years and cutting carbon emissions by around 100 tonnes in the first year alone.
The solar panels have been provided free of charge to Eco-Pak thanks to an innovative collaboration between Fenland Council’s business advice service, Fenland for Business, volunteers from Carbon Neutral Cambridge, community investors and the Big Solar Co-op.
“It was the perfect solution at the perfect time for us. We were worried about increasing energy costs, and I’d had a quote for solar of around £500K. As we’d just bought the building, we’d have needed a bank loan, which would have required a 25% deposit, which at the time we didn’t have.”
Richard Hall, Operations Director at EcoPak
