Solar roofing panels meet Code and planning requirements

A new addition to Solar Century’s award winning family of solar roofing materials is the C21e slate, which makes sustainable building even easier and better looking. The C21e Slate delivers the same high power output as the award winning tile format, it has a sleek aluminium frame to fit with a range of natural, fibre cement and reconstituted roof slates.The slate product follows demand for a solar roofing material compatible with slate roofs not only in the UK but across Europe, and is already in use on more than a dozen roofs in the UK helping house builders meet planning requirements and the Code for Sustainable Homes.

Since its launch in 2005, C21 solar electric and solar thermal roof tiles have been installed on over a thousand roofs by house builders such as Barratt, Fairview, St James and Croudace. Feedback from initial C21e Slate installation has been positive.

Simon Gerrard, Solarcentury’s residential sales manager, says: “An increasing number of developers are choosing photovoltaics as part of the solution to help them meet The Code for Sustainable Homes at level three and beyond. This is because photovoltaics are easy to specify in SAP, easy to install, have a proven performance in the UK and are comparable in price to other renewable options.”

Solarcentury also has ‘Orbit’, the new solar energy display system for homes with C21 roof tiles. It is the only consumer friendly display on the market to show both energy consumption and production in a clear graphical format.

The simple wall mounted wireless device follows consumer demand for a clear graphical display to encourage energy saving at the same time as demonstrating home energy generation, and is an innovative addition to the Solarcentury product family.

More information: www.solarcentury.com