Long-standing safety electronics firm save costs and carbon with solar revamp.

Electronics firm C-TEC has achieved huge cost and carbon savings by implementing key carbon reduction strategies, including a major solar revamp.

C-TEC are leading UK manufacturers of life safety electronic equipment. Their main warehouse is situated in Wigan and the company has been running since 1981.  

The Green Economy team first became involved with C-TEC towards the end of 2023 after the C-TEC team reached out requesting support with their decarbonisation strategy. 
 
“We’ve supported them in a variety of ways,” says Alasdair Dalzel Job, Technical Lead at Green Economy. “We did a full review of their site to look at how they could improve their environmental performance, looking at their energy consumption.” 

Identifying opportunities: energy consumption review and solar PV recommendation

After conducting the review, Alasdair pieced together a report outlining recommendations, including a solar PV project.  
 
“At the time [of the report] there was a scare about the cost of energy,” explains Andy Scott, Director of C-TEC. “Worst case estimates where at 85p per unit, so cost saving was a big factor in our decision to go with solar. And the other part was social responsibility; trying to decarbonise the business over time.”