South Auckland Forging Engineering in Drury has risen to the challenge of sustainability by installing the largest photovoltaic solar electricity generating array in New Zealand.
The firm is a multi-faceted specialist engineering company of 43 years’ experience, located 35km south of central Auckland. Its solar generation project was launched as a result of the firm’s management wanting to reduce its electricity bill.
Changing to a different supplier was investigated, but would only have decreased the bill by two per cent. After further research, and getting a number of quotes, the economic advantages of installing solar panels proved convincing.
The company operates a heavy forging plant, a large heat treatment facility, machine shop, metallurgical laboratory and a training programme – all on a three-hectare site.
Power to the people
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
