During load-shedding, commercial buildings are impacted the worst because the lack of electricity directly affects the business bottom line.
Most offices can’t operate their computers and communication equipments. Banks can’t run their ATM machines. Hotels and restaurants have to turn away customers because they can’t provide the appropriate environment for serving meals or provide lodging. Clinics have to stop providing services to patients because equipments are not functioning, and worse, they run the risk of having their vaccines and samples of blood, etc. being compromised if the temperature of their freezing units starts fluctuating.
Just about every where you look, businesses lose revenue when they don’t have electricity.
Of course, there is the alternative to use diesel generators, but as load-shedding hours increase, this too becomes infeasible for a variety of reasons. First off, diesel isn’t always readily available. Secondly, running a diesel generators for prolonged period of time isn’t safe for the equipment. Most businesses tend to have 2 generators and run them 8 hours a time and hope they don’t have to take one offline for maintenance. And then there is the problem of pollution with noise and fumes, which doesn’t make for a good environment for working, specially when you are a place like a hospital, clinic, or a school.
Gham Power’s addresses this by providing a unique solar PV solution for commercial buildings which can run all your necessary office equipments and appliances at costs that are lower than owning and operating a diesel generator. The only limiting factor to how much energy you can produce from solar PV is the available area for installing solar panels.
Typically, 1 square meter of space will produce 1 kwh (unit) of electricity per day. So, based on your available area to install PV, you can quickly assess the energy harvesting capacity of your business location.
Commercial buildings have a different electricity usage requirement in that they use most of their electricity during the day as opposed to residential buildings which tend to use most of their energy during evening and nights and earlier in the mornings. As such, energy storage requirements for commercial buildings are usually less than residential buildings.
Gham Power’s unique design for commercial buildings maximizes the use of solar energy directly during the day without having to go through a battery bank as in traditional off-grid solar PV systems. This enables us to significantly cut down the cost of PV installation, thus bringing the total cost of ownership (TCO) lower than of owning and operating a diesel generator. Gham Power’s installation designers conduct a feasibility study using software and other tools to design the optimal solar solution given the commercial building’s location, roof space, orientation, and its energy needs.
Our commercial PV systems are either roof-mounted or ground-mounted PV solutions ranging from 1 to 5 KW and above. Just like our residential PV systems, Gham Power provides full services for financing and installation, and also provides ongoing monitoring and support.