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UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE)

Solar load simulators

EnergyCPV 09330000 34150000
Value£12k
Awarded11 Oct 2021
Published27 Sept 2021
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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£12ktotal contract value
median £600k
this tender£0£31.8m

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The brief

Energy House 2 (EH2) is a large-scale building physics test laboratory to be built at the University of Salford, Manchester.

The project Is part funded by the ERDF.

The construction will begin in summer 2020 with the construction period set to last 12 months.

The project builds on the successful Energy House project :(https://www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/laboratories-and-studios/energyhouse ).

A video of the project can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3bsXeQKYU EH2 will be a unique facility and one of most advanced building test facilities on the planet.

It has the following features: • 2 large chambers capable of having 2 family homes built in each one (4 homes in total) • Temperature controlled to within 0.5 °C from -20°C to +40 °C • Wind, rain, solar radiation and snow can be generated • These conditions provide testing facilities for housing covering 95% of the global population.

The Energy House 2 Project has a requirement to replicate Solar PV DC input into invertors that are inside the test houses.

These should be able to simulate the peak load from a 3.89 kWp System.

We are not looking to replicate solar lights to test panels, just to generate the DC input to the invertor.

We require 2 units.

Please go to InTend for full tender documentation: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/salford/aspx/Home

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

2 large chambers capable of having 2

2 large chambers capable of having 2 family homes built in each one (4 homes in total).

02

These conditions provide testing facilities for housing

These conditions provide testing facilities for housing covering 95% of the global population.

03

These should be able to simulate

These should be able to simulate the peak load from a 3.89 kWp System.

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Stage
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UoS/WS/21/22/QTR1/Solar load simulators
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