Oakland Care has announced the installation of 340 solar panels at two of its care homes.
Woodland Grove in Loughton, Essex is the first to benefit, with 170 solar panels installed at the home. Alongside the capacity to generate 65,383KWh per annum and provide a meaningful reduction to the cost of the care home’s electricity bills, the panels also have the potential to save 17 tonnes of CO2 each year – equivalent to driving 85,000 miles in a petrol car.
Following shortly will be Beechwood Grove in East Sussex, which will also have 170 new solar panels installed. The two homes are the first in Oakland Care’s portfolio to be retrofitted with solar panels.
The work at both care homes has been undertaken in partnership with Volt Group.
Richard Dooley, director of development at Oakland Care, said: “We’re delighted to announce this investment into the retrofitting of solar panels at two of our care homes. It demonstrates a big step forward against our environmental strategy and is further evidence of our industry-leading approach to combatting the climate crisis.
“We are always looking at ways to reduce our impact on the environment and pursue a more sustainable way of operating as a care home provider. The addition of solar panels presents an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to this through the generation of green energy which will be used in its entirety.
“Alongside this it also presents an opportunity to create meaningful savings in our utility costs at each of the care homes, which can then be redirected into other impactful and purpose-driven areas of operation.”
