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Nottinghamshire County Council looked to EvoEnergy for help overcoming a power export limit at Hagg Farm, an outdoor education centre

Nottinghamshire County Council looked to EvoEnergy for help overcoming a power export limit at Hagg Farm, an outdoor education centre

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Hagg Farm Nottinghamshire County Council looked to EvoEnergy for help overcoming a power export limit at Hagg Farm, an outdoor education centre for young people in the heart of the Peak District. The 32 kWp system was installed by EvoEnergy in September, making the council the UK’s ?rst to adopt an export power limiting system on a PV system. Because of its location in rural Derbyshire, powered only by overhead lines, the team at Hagg Farm was told that the array must stay below an export limit of 7kWp, to reduce the strain on the National Grid by the Distribution Network Operator (DNO). That would have meant reducing its size by 75 per cent. However, EvoEnergy’s project management team had the idea of ?tting an Export Power Control (XPC) system on site. This solution, has helped the counc

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