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How did Pacific Solar help save BidFoods $1.6 million in energy costs at their Dandenong facility?

The solar for cold-storage facilities is very relevant just because it's a very stable energy load. They have the fridges on 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the solar energy can cover about 40% of their load. The return on investment on this particular site is 4.6 years until the system pays for itself. We set that up conservatively with a 3% increase on their rate of power, over the next 25 years. So the site here at this cold-storage facility has got a 210 kilowatt system - it's going to save them $80,000 dollars in the first year. At the 25 year mark, the system will still be producing and they'll have a total saving of $1.6 million dollars. We get to these figures because we analyze the interval data for the site, we design the system to suit their actual requirements that they need. Through that data we get at every 15 minutes, it's very accurate, then we base that on weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology that goes back 20 years.

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