McElroy Metal
McElroy metal
Peachtree City, GA
Half megawatt system produces more power than plant consumes
PEACHTREE CITY GA., Jan. 15, 2014 – It’s one thing to talk about the benefits of your metal roofing products and how those products can serve as a host for photovoltaic panels. It’s quite another thing to re-roof your manufacturing facility with your panels and add photovoltaic panels.
Paramount Metal Systems recently completed the retrofit installation and 500 kW solar project on McElroy Metal’s manufacturing facility in Peachtree City, Ga. The project, believed to be the largest solar installation for a metal roofing manufacturer, is part of the Medium Scale Georgia Power Advanced Solar Initiative Program. A total of 1,960 solar panels were installed on the plant roof and on a canopy in the parking lot. The half megawatt solar system became operational in late December. The energy generated will not directly power the facility, but will be “sold” back to Georgia Power. The power generated will far surpass Peachtree’s energy consumption.
| Facility Name: | McElroy Metal, Peachtree City, GA |
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| Project Type: | Retro-Fit Roof & Solar Photovoltaics |
| SYSTEMS INSTALLER: | Paramount Metal Systems |
| SOLAR PROVIDER: | Inovateus Solar, LLC |
| SUB FRAMING: | Existing Structural |
| ROOFING MANUFACTURER: | McElroy Metal, 238T SSR |
Through our affiliation with Inovateus Solar and McElroy Metal, Paramount provides complete solar solutions for commercial and industrial applications. Paramount can provide a wide variety of roofing panels that make an excellent substrate, or host material, for solar panels.
“We are very excited to have installed a half megawatt photovoltaic system on our Peachtree City facility,” says McElroy President Ian McElroy. “The existing metal roof, a galvanized R-panel, was more than 34 years old. We retrofitted with our 238T symmetrical standing seam system which provides an excellent metal over metal re-roof solution. And since we were installing a new roof, we decided to explore adding solar to the plans. Fortunately, we were able to put together a plan that made financial sense.”
For the Peachtree City project, the panels were installed over the existing roof with 238T Retrofit Clip, a 3-1/2-inch standoff clip that elevates the new roofing system to the top of the existing panels. The 238T Retrofit Clip sits between the ribs of the existing roof, eliminating the need for sub-framing, greatly reducing material and labor expense. In fact, the use of the 238T Retrofit Clip instead of a sub-framing system reduced the overall cost of the re-roof portion by approximately 25 percent. The tall clip stands above the existing panel’s major ribs, allowing for the addition of insulation. For this project, foam insulation provided increased R-value as well as support for the new roof panels.
“We found the 238T to be an amicable panel to work with for this type of system,” says David Dodge, President of Paramount Metal Systems in Little Rock, AR. “It’s a two-foot panel so the erection was faster because we were covering more square feet per panel. Everybody in the field was pleased with the installation.”
Paramount Metal Systems installed the 30,000 square feet of retrofit metal roofing panels in 10 days and needed another 2-1/2 weeks to install the solar panels. “Honestly, I don’t think it could have gone any better and I would have to attribute that to the efforts of the whole team. The entire project took four to five weeks.”
