Reliable Renewables, a North-West-based company, has launched ‘Sonny’, a groundbreaking solar innovation on wheels designed for a multitude of ‘Off grid’ applications requiring power with the benefit of harnessing clean solar energy.
Reliable Renewables successfully launched Sonny at its first outing last weekend, at a regional youth football tournament in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. The local MP for Pendle, Andrew Stephenson, unveiled it to the public. During the event, Sonny powered five food stalls, including one that required significant energy for an electric pizza oven and bouncy castles, with plenty of energy to spare, demonstrating its reliability and effectiveness.
Sonny is equipped with twelve sun-tracking high-efficiency solar panels producing 4.80 kWp, is capable of producing up to 50kW of 3 phase 230/400v power, and features a high-powered 140kWh battery storage system. This innovation is capable of producing enormous amounts of electricity in almost any situation. For example, to serve as a rapid response power unit in emergencies, such as natural disasters causing power outages or national grid failure, enabling local businesses such as food vendors, entertainment artists, shops, and trade stalls to utilize renewable power at both indoor and outdoor events and even more power-hungry use cases, such as producing energy for entire festivals and building sites. Completely replacing the traditional diesel generator applications, which are noisy, inefficient, expensive to run, high maintenance and environmentally damaging.
Reliable Renewables has also integrated Sonny into Sunsynk Connect, an app that allows users to monitor how much power is being generated by their solar system. An advantage of this is the team and the user can keep track of how much energy is being consumed and generated. Sonny also features proprietary technology that follows the arc of the sun throughout the day to maximize panel efficiency and produce 60% more power than a fixed array. Sonny will also have a full remotely monitored CCTV security system for on-site security benefits, remote controllable site lighting and USB phone charging lockers, particularly useful for festival applications.