Nature of Work: Ground Maintenance
Client: Lightsource Renewable Energy
Project Location: Nationwide
Summary
Lightsource Renewable Energy own, operate and maintain the largest amount of solar installations in the UK and a large percentage of their assets comprise ground mounted PV installations, known as “Solar Farms” which are situated in fields, generally in rural locations.
Lightsource approached Darlow Lloyd & Sons to carry out vegetation management on a number of its live generating sites across the UK comprising flail mowing, strimming and hedge cutting works. In and around the panels, substations and inverters. Darlow Lloyd & Sons mobilised a team to carry out the works to an agreed schedule working from one region to the next during 2014.
The works were carried out using a range of equipment such as strimmers, tractors mounted mowers and self propelled mowers, all of which was transported from site to site by Darlow Lloyd & Sons own transport to ensure complete flexibility and the most productivity.
Benefits
Using Darlow Lloyd & Sons to carry out the vegetation management works provided Lightsource with one point of contact for their sites despite their location, significantly reducing sub contractor interfaces. As a long established contractor, Darlow Lloyd & Sons has sufficient insurances and processes in place to enable us to work across a wide geographical area and carry out dangerous tasks safely, successfully and in accordance with the requirements of our clients.