Moleenergy – the renewable energy division of Mole Valley Farmers – was set up in 2011, with the key aim of offering impartial renewable energy solutions for anyone thinking of incorporating renewable technologies into their business and/or home. Working primarily across the South West, moleenergy’s reputation for offering top end products, working with leading manufactures and award winning installers has led to the business reaching a portfolio of over 750 solar PV installations and over 130 biomass installations to date. For anyone under the impression that you have to have a farm to work with moleenergy on a project, this is most certainly not the case. Although we specialise in agricultural installations, the small and friendly team are happy to discuss any scale of project in both commercial and domestic situations. One of the most important aspects for moleenergy is to offer advice based on the real facts and figures. Steve Edmunds, one of the Mole Valley Farmers directors has a unique demonstration site at Ashcott in Somerset where there is a variety of technologies operating on a working dairy farm. The technologies on site include ground and roof mounted solar PV arrays. Since the site has been operational the results have been incredibly encouraging with the systems continually outperforming predictions for the area. This level of performance not only accelerates the return on investment, but also provides more energy for business/home own use or re-sale to the grid. The site also has two ground source heat pumps, a range of biomass boilers, solar thermal and a 5kW wind turbine. Monitoring the performance of the site and the different systems is on-going. “I learned more about renewable energy in the two hours I was at the demonstration site than I had over 6 months with my previous potential installer,” said Miss Miller, one of Mole Valley Farmers members. Moleenergy also has a meeting facility at Lifton Mill in West Devon, with monthly presentations discussing the latest changes and developments within the industry as well as enabling people to have queries answered and take away a lot of information in a short space of time. Giving people the opportunity to have access to other specialist knowledge within the renewable energy industry is of huge importance and moleenergy often hold events with other specialist agricultural advisors from companies such as Thomas Westcott, Stags, Lombard Finance, Davisons and Old Mill accountants so that people have a full package of advice to make informed decisions before embarking on a project.