From The Rooftops Solar Campaign
Solar Rooftops Campaign
With over nine million square feet of commercial roof space, proximity to the UK’s largest container port, and the growing influence of Freeport East in attracting inward investment, our region is uniquely positioned to take a leading role in driving a national rooftop solar revolution.
Welcome to the first of a series of articles we’ll be publishing over the next twelve months as part of our From the Rooftops campaign – a partnership between Freeport East and Ipswich.co.uk – to put Suffolk businesses at the forefront of the UK’s commercial rooftop solar revolution.
Over the next twelve months, we will showcase how you can reduce costs, generate revenue, and build resilience through rooftop solar – all while contributing to our country’s net-zero targets and helping save our planet for future generations.
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Why Freeport East?
We believe commercial rooftop solar presents a massive opportunity for the Freeport East area to take the lead for the UK and respond to the Government’s ambitions for a “solar rooftop revolution”.
Freeport East covers the main A14 logistics corridor from Felixstowe to Stowmarket via Ipswich, as well as Harwich-Colchester. Being so close to the UK’s biggest container port, as well as other important ports in Harwich and Ipswich, means a range of commercial spaces are in abundance.
We have identified over 9 million square feet of recently developed or planned roof space across just 8 of the larger commercial developments in the Freeport East area.
Using metrics applied by the UK Warehousing Association, these roof spaces alone could support close to 100MW of solar installation. 100MW of rooftop solar installation within just 20km of Ipswich would represent tens of millions of pounds of investment and support hundreds of skilled jobs and apprenticeships. Perhaps most importantly, it could lead to savings for businesses in our area of over £20m per year.
