The Welsh-based enterprise that hires out electrical golf carts and utility autos to occasions and festivals in UK and infrequently in Europe has put in 140 Mono tier one photo voltaic panels to its headquarters buildings primarily based in an SSSI space.
They’ve additionally bought a further two new double decker buggy transporter trailers for the HGV fleet of now eight double decked trailers which transports the buggies from their headquarters facility in Newport to DP World Tour occasions within the UK and Europe.
The panels will generate a 3rd of the enterprise’s electrical energy necessities and save 20,000 kg of carbon emissions yearly – The equal of 328 timber planted.
The enterprise’s new supply of vitality will probably be used to energy the charging of its 550 sturdy fleet of electrical Membership Automotive golf carts, carryall utility autos and villager folks transporter buggies utilized by its clients comparable to DP World Tour and European Tour Productions for the staging and filming of their occasions.
It types a part of Hopkins Equipment’s imaginative and prescient to turn out to be probably the most sustainable occasion car rent firms, with the most recent venture completion taking place prepared for the following season of golf occasions and serving to them scale back their carbon emissions.
The double decked vans will assist half carbon emissions produced from the vans transporting the buggies to and from occasions. In addition to this they’re at the moment utilizing HGV’s with Euro 6 engines which can be extra environment friendly at decreasing emissions than older vans.
Evan Hopkins, Director at Hopkins Equipment, mentioned: “Bettering our carbon footprint and turning into extra sustainable by decreasing is a key goal for us as a enterprise.
“Funding in our newly put in photo voltaic panels and our fleet of HGV’s has been dedicated with our long-term future in thoughts each as a cost-friendly approach of producing our personal electrical energy and hopefully to assist the atmosphere.
“Our enterprise has been constructed on wetland surrounded by a collection of reens that assist drain the water off the land which is a protected environmental space we’re proud to keep up to reinforce the habitat surrounding our website.
“As we’re an agricultural enterprise at our roots, we’re keen about doing the precise issues to attain our sustainability imaginative and prescient and working as a pleasant, sociable and forward-thinking enterprise with the atmosphere and neighborhood at its core.”
