Newcastle NSW’s Commercial City Skyline

The city of Newcastle represents abundant opportunity for local commercial and industrial businesses to maximise their profits by installing a solar power system. This blog will look at the outstanding opportunities a solar power system represents for these commercial style properties and showcases some designs and examples that Newy Solar Co have completed for commercial properties and strata complexes in the area.

Take a look at Honeysuckle - the North end of the Newcastle Commercial / Residential Precinct. There is abundant, prime roof area ready for a solar power system.

Why is the City of Newcastle such a great space for solar power, especially on apartments and commercial buildings?

It just so happens that Newcastle City Council have successfully implemented solid design and town planning practices that ensure preceding buildings are not overshadowed by those in front. This means that the building in front are of a lower height than the building behind.

If you consider that most of these buildings are orientated to face North - towards the harbour - you can see how this goes hand in hand with putting solar power on these commercial and strata titled complexes. Because none of the buildings are shadowed, it means that the solar power panels are able to face directly north without risk of performance determent due to shadowing! This is really a perfect scenario.

So we have: Large buildings with ample roof area, virtually no shadowing, all day access to abundant sunlight, high energy consuming buildings…. this is what we call the perfect storm for a solar system.

BUILDINGS - PREDOMINANTELY COMMERCIAL AND APARTMENT COMPLEXES WHICH USE LARGE AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY ARE POISED MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE TO TAKE BENEFIT FROM A WELL DESIGNED SOLAR SYSTEM

Here are some close ups of before and after solar power systems that Newy Solar Co designed for commercial / strata type buildings in Newcastle NSW

These systems feature anywhere from 60 - 180 + panels and that means they would have a power output of around 26kw to 78kw and more!

These style of buildings always have a high base load. Be it communal lighting, air-conditioning, exhaust, hot water heating, lifts operating and just general power consumption. Although commercial strata/residential apartment complexes are designed quite nicely here in Newcastle there still exists a high demand for electricity due to the technological nature of our works and the inherent need for the buildings to operate the plant.

The system designed on the right is forecasted to save the residents of the complex and estimated $8,000 every year! We put this forth to the owners committee whom are extremely happy to see such projected savings. Often we think forget to think about how to make money for the building, and these strata owners diligently pursued a solar power system to increase their building on the corner of Newcastle / Worth Place financial income and most of all, cashflow.

Here is another example of a design we recently completed for a local Newcastle Commercial property. This local business requested solar power because of their extreme power usage. How much is extreme? 300+ kwH per day! Electricity was costing them around $3700.00 per month!

Newy Solar Co designed a a solar power system for them consisting of 74 solar panels of North and North West orientation. This setup provides constant all-day power and the forecasted savings from this system alone are in the order of $17,000.00 per annum!

If you consider the lifespan of the system, the total projected savings are in the order of $340,000.00! This is an absolutely huge, but achievable goal for the relatively small outlay the owner will put forth.

People see this as an extreme exampled but it is becoming largely more common as people, namely business owners and strata committees alike see the value in solar having solar power installed. If you see our previous blog we talk about just why solar power is such a good investment for commercial and residential apartment complexes such as these.

If you are a business owner, or you live in an apartment complex in Newcastle, Maitland or the Hunter we strongly recommend you book a free solar on-site assessment and see just how much money you can save with a solar power system from Newy Solar Co. If everyone else is making money from solar, there is no reason why you should not as well and if you do not, you are falling behind.

Contact us now for a free quote and to find out how much you can save.