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Energy Solutions for Data Centres

Data centres are the backbone of global connectivity and business innovation, but their immense energy demands lead to rising operational costs. By integrating solar panels for a data centre, businesses can significantly reduce energy expenses while addressing the growing pressure to minimise their carbon footprint.

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Energy Cost Savings and ROI

Data centres consume vast amounts of energy to keep servers running 24/7. By integrating solar panels for a data centre, you can generate electricity on-site, reducing reliance on the grid and cutting down on energy costs.

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Reduction in Carbon Footprint

Solar panels for a data centre offer a clean, renewable energy solution that significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, helping your facility meet sustainability goals and comply with environmental regulations.

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Enhanced Energy Security and Reliability

Investing in solar panels for a data centre ensures a stable and reliable energy supply. This reduces the risk of power outages, enhances operational resilience, and guarantees continuous uptime, which is crucial for data-intensive operations.

DATA CENTRES SOLAR BENEFITS

Why go solar in data centres?

Installing solar panels for data centres delivers measurable operational, financial, and sustainability benefits. With high, continuous energy demand and increasing pressure to reduce carbon intensity, on-site solar generation helps data centres lower electricity costs, improve energy efficiency, and support long-term resilience while progressing towards net zero targets.

Optimise power usage effectiveness (PUE)

Data centres are measured on efficiency. On-site solar generation directly offsets grid electricity used for IT load and cooling, helping improve overall Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and demonstrate operational efficiency to stakeholders, customers, and auditors.

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PUE Optimisation
Onsite Generation
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Hedge against energy price volatility

With electricity representing one of the largest operational costs for data centres, solar panels provide long-term price certainty. Generating power on-site reduces exposure to wholesale market volatility and peak pricing, stabilising operating expenditure over the system’s lifetime.

Energy Cost Stability
Price Hedging
Long-Term Savings
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Support resilience and redundancy strategies

While solar is not a replacement for UPS or backup generation, it strengthens overall energy resilience. When integrated with battery storage and smart controls, solar can support load smoothing, reduce peak demand, and complement existing resilience infrastructure.

Energy Resilience
Battery Integration
Smart Energy
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Align generation with daytime cooling demand

Solar generation naturally aligns with peak daytime cooling loads, particularly during warmer months when data centre cooling demand is highest. This improves self-consumption rates and maximises the value of on-site generation.

Cooling Load Matching
Self Consumption
Smart Load Balancing
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COLD STORAGE & REFRIGERATION ENERGY SOLUTIONS

Tailored energy solutions for Data Centres

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Solar Consultation and Design for Data Centres

Our team of experts will guide you through every step of the process, from the initial consultation to the bespoke design of solar panels for your data centre. We ensure that the solar energy system is tailored to meet the specific energy requirements and operational demands of your facility.
Bespoke System Design
Data Centre Load Analysis
Critical Infrastructure

Installation and Maintenance

Once the design is finalised, EvoEnergy provides high-quality installation services for solar panels in data centres. Additionally, we offer comprehensive solar panel maintenance plans to keep your system running at peak efficiency, ensuring long-term performance and reliability.
Commercial Installation
Solar Maintenance
Long-Term Performance

Energy Storage Solutions

Our energy storage systems integrate seamlessly with your solar panels, providing essential backup power. These solutions enhance the energy reliability of your data centre, ensuring uninterrupted operations during grid outages or peak energy usage times.
Battery Storage
Back-up Power
Energy Resilience

Financing Assistance

Understanding how your renewable energy systems perform is important to us, we offer a wide range of monitoring solutions including our own solar monitoring applications, built to deliver everything from advanced analysis to solar displays and reporting. With real time solar system monitoring our operations & maintenance teams will ensure your systems operate at peak efficiency.
Solar Financing Options
PPA & Leasing
CAPEX Solutions
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CLIENT REVIEW

“GCB Cocoa UK is extremely pleased with the installation of solar panels at our site. We are grateful to EvoEnergy for their exceptional service and for addressing all our requirements in operating our new chocolate factory. It is wonderful to be a part of a project promoting sustainable energy and we eagerly anticipate the positive outcomes.”

Kirsten Marshall

Sustainability Advocate for GCB Cocoa UK

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FAQ’S

Frequently asked questions

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