Our Challenge
Reduce customer electricity demand billing charges with clean energy
Highly congested rooftop, many rooftop natural gas lines, new refrigeration equipment being added, structural limitations, high winds, and winter construction environment with frozen roof surface, condensed construction timeline, utility protective requirements.
Our Solution
Inferno Solar engaged directly with all stakeholders to carefully coordinate the solar array with structural, mechanical, and refrigeration trades.
Inferno Solar engaged directly with all stakeholders to carefully coordinate the solar array with structural, mechanical, and refrigeration trades.
Inferno hired a gasfitter to rerun surface gas lines to accommodate the solar array, thereby reducing wind uplift forces and ballast (weight) requirements to the satisfaction of the structural engineer, and allowing more room for solar panels. Winter construction environment had weather ranging from -30C to +10C. Inferno took advantage of warm weather days to move rooftop washed rock covering to enable solar to carry on during colder weather, and prefabricated many of the racking structures inside. Finally, Inferno worked closely with Fortis to ensure the large microgenerator was safe and would not disrupt their system.
Our team went outside of the box and increased the tilt angle of the solar panels to maximize snow shedding in wintertime and increase the total energy production. We use the latest solar panels available on the market that allow the bottom half to be shaded and the top half to still produce. This will assist in increasing annual generation during the winter months.
We provided a customer-owned meter and monitoring solution, accessible via a webpage, to view building electricity usage and solar production live. We worked closely with the landlord and tenant to provide an innovative financing package to reduce capital costs to the tenant and increase the yield on the building financials.
Finally, we provide a promotional video of the final product to the customer for use in their own advertising and marketing. Inferno Solar was responsible for all design, procurement, construction, and commissioning of this project.
