Alectrona
Commercial solar by areaYorkshire-based and quick to a Beverley site, designing commercial solar over 50 kWp for the Grovehill estate, the County Hall public-sector estate and the town's light-manufacturing roofs. We have not installed in Beverley yet, so we lead with an on-site drone survey and a load-matched design, not a local job count we do not have.
These are representative example reviews, not yet-collected customer feedback. They are written to illustrate the kind of feedback Alectrona aims to earn and are shown as design placeholders while we gather and verify reviews from our first commercial clients. Alectrona is the commercial solar trading brand of RVTC LTD.
What set Alectrona apart was the documented design pack. We had quotes from three installers, but only Alectrona handed us a full set of drawings, a single-line diagram and a design referencing BS 7671 and the G99 connection process. The whole thing read like an engineering submission rather than a sales brochure. Our M&E consultant reviewed it and signed it off without a single query. That gave the board the confidence to release the capital.
Other firms priced our roof off a satellite image and a desktop guess. Alectrona flew an in-house drone survey, fully insured and flown by a qualified commercial drone pilot, and built a 3D model of the actual roof. It picked up plant, vents and a parapet line that a flat aerial photo had completely missed, which changed the panel layout. I would rather find that out at design stage than on the day the scaffold goes up. The accuracy of that survey is the reason I trusted everything that followed.
As a finance director I was wary of being oversold a system bigger than we could use. Alectrona modelled the array against our actual half-hourly consumption data rather than an annual total, so it is sized to what we genuinely draw on site during the day. They were honest that exporting surplus is worth far less than self-consumption, and built the design around that. The capital case stacked up because the engineering was honest, not because the numbers were inflated.
We were undecided between buying outright, leasing and a PPA. Alectrona laid out all three side by side with the pros and cons of each against our balance sheet, instead of pushing the one that pays them best. They were clear about where a PPA makes sense and where capex wins, and pointed us at our own accountant for the tax treatment. The survey and design took a little longer than I expected, but the thoroughness was worth the wait. Genuinely consultative.
The install crew were tidy and well run, and worked to a clear CDM 2015 plan with a proper site induction and RAMS. What impressed me most was the handover. We received a full commissioning pack with the IEC 62446-1 test results, certification, O&M documentation and an as-built record for our maintenance team. As the people who have to live with this asset for the next twenty years, having that paperwork in order matters enormously. Nothing was left loose.
I expected the usual hard sell and got the opposite. After surveying our site Alectrona told us one roof section was not worth covering because of shading, and that a smaller, well-sited array was the better investment than filling every square metre. There was no commission-driven upselling and no pressure. For a six-figure capital project, that straight talk is exactly what you want from the people advising you. We will be using them again on our second site.
Alectrona is the commercial arm of RVTC LTD, working on rooftop and ground-mount solar above 50 kWp for businesses across Beverley and the HU17 districts: HU17 0 around the Grovehill industrial estate, and HU17 7 to HU17 9 across the town and its fringes. We are Yorkshire-based and reach Beverley quickly, covering the wider area out to Hull, Cottingham, Driffield and Market Weighton from the same base.
We have not yet installed in Beverley, so there is no local job list to point at, and we will not pretend otherwise. A system over 50 kWp sits outside the domestic MCS route, where the structural loading, the single-line electrical design, the half-hourly load matching and the network application all decide whether the array pays back. Every Beverley enquiry starts with an insured drone pilot flying a 3D survey of your actual roof and a PV*SOL model built against your real demand, before anyone discusses a panel count.
Beverley's realistic commercial solar opportunity sits on the peripheral estates, not in the historic core. The town centre around Beverley Minster, St Mary's Church and the medieval North Bar is a conservation area thick with listed buildings, so its roofscape is planning-sensitive and a poor fit for a large array. The modern flat-roofed stock is concentrated to the south and east, and Grovehill Industrial Estate on Annie Reed Road (HU17 0LF) is the heart of it: a dense cluster of light-industrial, trade-counter, warehousing and manufacturing units, with over 200 companies registered to the Annie Reed Road postcode alone. Those broad, lightly-shaded roofs over daytime trade and storage operations are the load shape solar serves best, with most of the generation consumed on site rather than exported.
The newer stock on the same estate strengthens the case. Capital Park, a circa £10m speculative development of around 80,000 square feet within Grovehill, brings large modern unit roofs of the kind built for a clean panel layout. The Beverley Enterprise Centre, a circa £4.8m council development that opened in 2022 with on-site EV charging and its own rooftop solar, shows the same estate already building energy use into current roof specifications. Around two miles from the centre, Woodmansey Business Park mixes offices, warehousing, manufacturing and a working factory, with an on-site anaerobic digestion plant tied to its food-processing tenant, so on-site energy is already part of the conversation there.
Two local strands sit alongside the estates and describe the area's economy rather than our customers. Beverley is the administrative centre of the East Riding, with East Riding of Yorkshire Council headquartered at County Hall and a large public-sector office estate carrying steady weekday loads. Two miles north at Leconfield, the Defence School of Transport at Normandy Barracks trains nearly 20,000 service personnel a year and is one of the area's larger single-site employers, a year-round campus load. Light manufacturing is genuine here too: Hodgson Sealants, founded in Beverley in 1968, makes its core sealant and adhesive products from a Beverley production facility. Each of those roofs carries a different demand curve, which is why we model each one on its own metered data rather than a single Beverley template.
Every Beverley design starts with an on-site survey rather than a satellite guess, and the survey travels to the town the same as anywhere in Yorkshire. Our in-house drone pilot, insured and qualified to A2 CofC and GVC standard, flies a 3D survey of the roof, capturing pitch, orientation, shading, rooflights and the true usable area. That model feeds a PV*SOL simulation run against your half-hourly load, so the array is sized to what the building actually uses through the working day.
The method is the same whether the roof is a single large-span shed on Annie Reed Road, a modern unit at Capital Park or a manufacturing roof at Woodmansey. The pilot comes to you, the layout is only fixed once the roof and any structural limits are accounted for, and the design is built to BS 7671 from what the drone records on the day.
The distribution network operator for Beverley is Northern Powergrid, which holds the Yorkshire licence covering the East Riding, and any system over 50 kWp connects under a G99 application to them. G99 is the engineering approval that lets a generator of this size run in parallel with the grid, and it governs how much you are permitted to export. We prepare and manage that application as part of the project rather than leaving it with you.
We do not assert a named constrained primary for Beverley, because there is none on record and we will not invent one. The honest position is that headroom is confirmed site by site against Northern Powergrid's local network for the actual point of connection, whether that is a Grovehill trade unit or a Woodmansey factory. Where export is limited, we design a controlled export limitation from the start, so the array runs at full output for self-consumption while capping what reaches the network, and where it improves the case we look at battery storage to hold surplus on site.
A good number of commercial roofs across Beverley and the wider East Riding already carry solar, including FiT-era arrays now well into their working life, often left without proper support after the firm that fitted them moved on or stopped trading. Through our sister operation Solar Tech Support we take on independent operation and maintenance of existing commercial systems brand-agnostically, whatever panel or inverter is on the roof, with monitoring, fault-finding, string testing and repair to keep an ageing asset earning.
That takeover work suits the building stock here: a trade unit on the Grovehill estate or an older array on a Woodmansey or County Hall roof can drift quietly out of performance as inverters age and monitoring lapses, with the loss showing only on the bill. We will not publish a fixed response-time promise we cannot stand behind for Beverley specifically. We assess the system on site first, give you an honest read on what it is producing against what it should, and agree a maintenance scope against what we find.
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Read the case studyA representative large flat-roof distribution-centre array designed to a daytime logistics load, using half-hourly modelling, an in-house drone survey and an export-limited G99 design to maximise self-consumption.
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Not yet, and we say so openly. We are Yorkshire-based and cover Beverley and the HU17 districts, but we will not claim a local track record we do not have. What we bring is the engineering a system over 50 kWp needs: an in-house drone survey of your roof, a PV*SOL model built against your half-hourly load, a design to BS 7671 and a G99 connection to Northern Powergrid.
The realistic opportunity is on the peripheral estates, not the conservation-protected town centre around the Minster and North Bar. That means the large-span trade, warehousing and manufacturing units on the Grovehill estate (Annie Reed Road), the modern roofs at Capital Park, and the mixed industrial stock at Woodmansey Business Park, plus the public-sector office estate around County Hall. These carry steady daytime loads, so a well-sized array is consumed on site rather than exported.
The distribution network operator for Beverley is Northern Powergrid, which covers the East Riding, and a system over 50 kWp connects under a G99 application that we prepare and manage. We confirm export headroom for your specific connection point rather than assuming it, and where export is limited we design a controlled export limitation so the array still serves your own demand at full output.
Yes. Through our sister operation Solar Tech Support we provide independent, brand-agnostic operation and maintenance and take over older systems, including FiT-era arrays on Grovehill, Woodmansey and public-sector roofs whose original installer has moved on. We assess the system on site first and agree the service scope against what we find, rather than quoting a fixed promise sight unseen.
We do not quote a per-kWp or from-price for Beverley, because an honest figure for a system over 50 kWp only comes out of the survey. The cost is driven by your roof and your demand: the structural read on a Grovehill trade unit or a County Hall office deck, the usable area and shading the drone records, the inverter and any export-limitation or battery hardware the connection calls for, and the PV*SOL yield modelled against your half-hourly load. A large-span shed on Annie Reed Road and a smaller multi-let unit produce very different numbers, so a headline rate would be guesswork. The approach is the same here as anywhere in Yorkshire: an in-house drone survey and a PV*SOL model first, then a written design and price built from what we actually measure, with the self-consumption and payback case set against your own metered import price rather than a generic template. The survey and the design figure are how you get a number you can put in front of a board.
Quickly. We are Yorkshire-based and reach Beverley and the HU17 districts as part of our normal patch, covering out to Hull, Cottingham, Driffield and Market Weighton from the same base, so the drone survey comes to you without a travel premium and there is no per-mile charge buried in the cost. What actually sets the timeline for a system over 50 kWp is not the drive, it is the G99 connection. Every array this size needs a G99 application to Northern Powergrid, the Yorkshire distribution network operator for the East Riding, and their assessment of export headroom at your specific point of connection is usually the longest single item in the programme. We prepare and manage that application as part of the project, design in an export limitation from the start where the connection is tight so the work is not held up waiting on a network reinforcement, and give you a realistic programme once the survey and the G99 position are known rather than a fixed promise up front.
Wherever you are in the region, the on-site drone survey comes to you and the PV*SOL model sets the figure. Send us the site and the half-hourly load, and we will come back with a designed system.
