Victory Leisure Homes manufacture luxury mobile homes from a site in Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire and their products are sold throughout the UK and continental Europe.

Challenge
The manufacturing site has an annual demand for 485,000kWh of grid supplied electricity and roof space for in excess of 500kW of Solar PV. Solar PV alone was not the answer for supplying a year round source of renewable energy and so the challenge was to try and site a wind turbine, as well as solar, within a very constrained site.

Solution
As the goal was to supplement grid supplied electricity the decision was taken to size a solar array and wind turbine to match the site’s base load, rather than generate a surplus for export.

Following a lengthy site assessment and local authority planning process the issues of aviation radar, residential amenity and ecological constraint were overcome and a consent was granted for a turbine.

In November 2013 a 100kW solar array was commissioned and this was followed by an 80kW wind turbine in August 2014.