Pelee Island Winery
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Pelee Island Winery, Kingsville, ON
VCT Group worked with the Pelee Island Winery to design and build an optimized PV system to generate the best possible returns from their FIT 1.0 rooftop solar PV contract. After several years of reliably maintaining their system Pelee Island Winery engaged VCT Group once again to build another solar PV project at the same site, this time in a net metered configuration. The new system includes a complete SCADA system for the local utility.
Primary Equipment Installed
250 kW AC / 413 kW DC solar standing seam roof install
233 kW AC / 311 kW DC solar standing seam roof install
Design Capacity
468,600 kWh / year (original system)
System Historical Performance
437,810 kWh in 2020
Case Study
Pelee Island Winery is world famous for their sustainably-produced wines. Sustainability is a core value expressed in every facet of how they grow their grapes, treat their soil and produce their award-winning wines. Energy use is no different. By teaming up with VCT Group, Pelee has installed solar power at their winery in Kingsville, Ontario to help offset the energy use, and achieve significant savings, at their power-intensive operation. VCT Group built two Solar PV projects at Peele along with an EV Charging station and the Pelee team looks forward to further investments in renewable energy.
Delve into the detailed Pelee Island Winery case study video to learn firsthand how solar energy empowers Pelee, directly in their own words.
