Largest GSE In-Roof Array in Cardiff

New Directions was set up in 1994 to help signpost people into employment. The business has grown remarkably over the past couple of decades, and has changed to reflect the needs of recruitment and training trends. Our operation now exists across eleven UK cities and towns.

Our aim is to embed ourselves in the communities we work within. By becoming a partner to key markets we can best understand their needs. We have evolved our offer to include training services to help businesses up-skill their employees as well as offering a bespoke recruitment service.

Throughout all of the markets we work within – education, social care, domiciliary care, and the pharmaceutical sector – we aim to become a supplier of choice.

The discovery came once the scaffolding was up. The roof at New Directions wasn't going to last another five years, let alone the 25-year warranty period of a new solar system. Quotes for a conventional re-roof came back at over £300,000 - before anyone added the cost of the solar install itself.

So we proposed a different approach. A GSE in-roof system doesn't sit on top of a roof - it becomes the roof. 364 Trina panels integrate flush with the roof line, weatherproof the building, and feed four Solis SG-Series commercial inverters wired across a split-array design. One install does the job of two.

At 146 kWp, the system now generates 120,514 kWh of clean electricity every year for New Directions, and the total project cost came in below what the re-roof alone would have been.