Saving energy for a family business

Rising energy prices are prompting Australian homeowners and businesses to find new ways of reducing their energy consumption — this often means investing in a solar system.

Allprint Graphics, a family-owned business in Sydney, has been providing innovative graphic communications solutions for over 60 years. Looking to reduce its rising energy bills and carbon footprint, Allprint Graphics approached Solahart Sydney to analyse its energy usage and design a solar system to manage the business’s energy costs.

Solahart Sydney is part of the Solahart/Rheem family and has provided families and businesses with solar products for over 70 years.

The Solahart team designed a 99.9 kW rooftop-mounted solar system incorporating over two hundred 450 W Solahart SunCell Plus panels, a FIMER PVS-100 string inverter, and a smart Solahart Energy Management solution to monitor solar energy production and energy usage.

FIMER’s PVS-100 is an all-in-one high-power string inverter, suitable for large, decentralised rooftop installations. The PVS-100 inverter installed at Allprint Graphics has six MPPTs (maximum power point tracking regulators), enabling greater design flexibility and energy yield. The system can also be ordered with two MPPTs for applications where the inverter is located a long way from the solar panel array.

“Solahart and FIMER have had a strong partnership delivering quality solar solutions to homeowners for many years,” said Nathan Vale, Sales Manager at Solahart Sydney.

“We are proud to continue this partnership with FIMER by delivering premium solutions to our commercial customers.”

Since the installation and commissioning in October 2022, Allprint Graphics’ solar system has generated over 65 MWh of energy. The system is estimated to reduce the business’s annual electricity consumption by 42%, annually saving more than $17,000 and offsetting approximately 128.5 tonnes of CO₂.

Top image caption: Rooftop solar installation at Allprint Graphics. Images supplied by FIMER.