Clubhouse solar: commercial panels for Tenby Golf Club

Tenby Golf Club sits on The Burrows at Tenby, a links course laid out through the dunes on the Pembrokeshire coast. The clubhouse looks out over the course, and its roof takes the full weather of an exposed seaside site along with long hours of open sky through the playing season.

The club wanted to put that roof to work, generating its own electricity on site to run the clubhouse day to day rather than drawing all of it from the grid.

InspireGreen installed 27 full-black DMEGC 405W panels on the clubhouse roof, giving a system size of 10.93 kWp. The panels feed a single Solis 10kW dual-MPPT inverter, with the array split across two roof planes that face in opposite directions, one string on the larger roof facing the course and one on the smaller roof alongside it.

The two dual-MPPT strings let each roof plane generate independently through the day as the sun moves across the site, so the system keeps working whichever face is catching the light. The panels are mounted on a K2 sheet-metal roof system fixed to the standing-seam roof, and the all-black modules were chosen to sit quietly against the pale roof rather than stand out from it.

The system has an estimated annual output of 9,612 kWh, enough to cover a meaningful share of the clubhouse's daytime electricity use across the year.That output is expected to save around 1.86 tonnes of CO₂ each year, based on the system's estimated annual generation. The split-array design means the clubhouse draws on solar across the day rather than at a single peak, matching generation to the pattern of use through the playing season.