Care homes cared for by solar

Eastgate Care Homes specialise in providing quality palliative and dementia care to their residents. They offer individual care with attention to detail within their idyllic residential homes.

Rising energy bills and increased energy consumption encouraged Eastgate Care to look into the option of solar power. Becoming carbon neutral through carbon offsetting projects is a goal valued by Eastgate, making an achievement towards sustainability even more credible.

Eastgate Care teamed up with Geo Green Power to reduce their energy bills and take advantage of the valuable feed-in-tariff payments thus ensuring continued high standards of care without reneging on a fair price. Our dedicated team at Geo Green Power installed three 15kW systems, one 18kW system, and a 30kW system in five of Eastgate’s purpose-built residential care houses.

Care homes traditionally have a high electricity usage throughout the day which ties in perfectly with a solar photovoltaic system. The way to achieve the best return on investment from a solar PV system is by using as much of the generated power as possible. On average, if you can utilise the majority of power on site, a solar scheme can achieve an ROI of at least 15%.

The finished installations have allowed Eastgate Care Homes to generate over 80,000kWhs of electricity a year, reducing their carbon footprint by over 35 tonnes, the equivalent of taking 7 cars off the road annually. They are also estimated to make a saving of almost £10,000 in electricity every year.