A reclamation yard that trades every day
Authentic Reclamation runs a reclamation yard serving the South East, across Surrey and South London. It's a working site with real running costs, and its power bill had crept up year after year. Management wanted two things. Bills they could actually control, and a cleaner way of running the place. They told us their electricity costs kept climbing and they didn't want to keep waiting on them. The catch was the roof. It was flat.
A flat roof, and a yard that can't stop
A flat roof is its own kind of job. It isn't a simple south-facing pitch you bolt panels onto. You have to mount and angle the panels yourself, space the rows so they don't shade each other, and keep water sitting where it should. Get the layout wrong and you leave generation on the table. On top of that, a reclamation yard can't down tools for a fortnight while people work on the roof. Authentic needed a system big enough to actually move the bill, built for a flat roof, and fitted around a business that kept trading the whole time.
A 23.37 kWp system, engineered for a flat roof
We didn't shy away from the flat roof. We designed for it. The panels were mounted and angled to make the most of a flat surface, laid out to keep shading down and catch as much sun as the roof allows. We ran the whole job end to end, from site visit and design through to install and commissioning, and planned it so the yard kept working. Authentic later told us it was our flat-roof experience that sealed the deal.
- 57 × 410W panels (23.37 kWp total)
- Mounted and angled for a flat roof, not a simple south-facing pitch
- Installed around a live reclamation yard that kept trading throughout
- Sized to the yard’s real power consumption, not a package
The power bill, cut by 70%
The bill dropped by 70%, money staying in the business instead of going to the grid. It's a real, repeating saving on a working yard, off a flat roof plenty of installers would rather not deal with. Over the system’s 25-year life that is roughly £88,000 to £117,000, on an install that typically pays for itself in five to six years.
Generation and saving figures on this page are estimates, modelled from the system size and a typical UK yield. They are not meter readings. Your own figures depend on your roof, your usage and the weather in any given year, and we confirm them from a real assessment rather than a model.
