Renewables firm delivers major solar and electric vehicle charging …

EnergyForce, a renewable energy systems specialist, is delivering a £1.4m multi-site solar and EV charging project for national motor dealer Rybrook Automotive Ltd.

The Beverley-based company is installing almost 4,000 solar PV panels and 71 EV charging stations across 17 sites across the Midlands and North West of England.

This is providing 141 EV charging sockets across BMW, MINI, and Jaguar Land Rover sites, with Rybrook Automotive becoming the first EnergyForce customer to have its new 300KW/400KW rapid chargers installed at its dealerships.

Once complete, the project will help generate 1.39MW, and help the company offset approximately 302 tonnes of CO2 per year.

Rybrook Automotive is one of the largest privately owned car dealer groups in the UK, with showrooms across the North West, South West and the Midlands.

It represents major specialist and luxury marques including Bentley, BMW, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lotus, Maserati, McLaren, MINI, Pininfarina, Porsche, Rolls-Royce and Volvo.

EnergyForce says its contract with Rybrook demonstrates its growing presence in the automotive retail sector.

To date it has installed more than 1,000 electric vehicle charge points at car dealerships and manages, on average, 122 MWh of EV charging per month.

In total, this year, the company has delivered 759MWh to charge EVs within the UK car dealership network, which is a 100% increase on the previous 12 months.

Chris Kirkwood, chairman of EnergyForce, said: “We are very proud to be supporting Rybrook Automotive with its sustainability ambitions alongside expanding its EV charging capabilities across its dealership network.

“We are working exceptionally close with its dealership network to complete the installations, which both generate clean energy to power the sites and an increasing number of EV cars they are selling and servicing, which need to be charged before customer collection.”

Chris Page, property director, Rybrook Automotive, added: “EnergyForce worked closely with our head office and centre teams to meet our business needs for our multi-site solar and EV charging project.

“The solutions were specifically tailored to the various different site locations and business needs.

“We are looking forward to the future benefits that this project will deliver for our businesses and we follow our long-term business strategy to increase our sustainability.”