Turning an underutilised space into an urban solar farm

Newport City Council is the unitary local authority for Newport City in south-east Wales. The council has committed to reaching net zero as an organisation by 2030 — a target that requires it to look hard at every council-owned asset for emissions cuts, including ones that don't obviously look like climate infrastructure. Kingsway multi-storey car park is one of those assets.

The top deck of Kingsway multi-storey car park sat underused - offering 390 kWp of generation capacity in plain sight. We installed 780 Eurener panels with three SolarEdge SE100K Synergy Manager inverters and per-panel optimisation, designed to handle the shading patterns of a city-centre rooftop. The array was delivered ahead of schedule and without disrupting the car park's 1,050 spaces or its 6am–midnight operating window. It now generates 367,720 kWh of clean electricity every year, avoiding 71 tonnes of CO₂ and turning an underused civic asset into an urban solar farm.