The Royal Mint has today unveiled its own on-site renewable energy centre, which the UK's official coin maker said would enable it to generate around 70 per cent of its own power needs.
The Local Energy Centre (LEC), which has been developed by the firm's energy partner Infinite Renewables, comprises a 2MW solar farm featuring over 4,000 PV panels, as well as two onshore wind turbines, a 'hydrogen-ready' combined heat and power unit (CHP), and a dual chemistry battery energy storage system, it explained.
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