Solar panels

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Potential use of photovoltaic units at a Park and Ride car park. Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is undertaking the design development of a new Park and Ride site at Eynsham in West Oxfordshire and invites suitable third parties to design and develop integrated PV facilities at the same site. The design currently caters for 1 000 car parking spaces and the main requirements are as follows: — Interest in developing a PV car park model by commercial companies at the new Eynsham P&R site (Latitude: 51.788487 Longitude: -1.391655); — OCC to install foundations and ducting at its own cost as part of the civils work for the P&R site, subject to specifications provided by the industry and geo-technical investigations; — Advice on design and building regulations approval for any (presumed to be external) PV facilities; — Advice on flexibility to alter future connectivity to the local network should future development alter the local electricity demand; — Very outline costings (at this stage) on infrastructure capital costs and potential capacity at 100 % / 50 % / 20 % / 10 % (i.e. 1 000 spaces, 500 spaces, 200 spaces and 100 spaces) coverage of the car park, plus whether energy storage is required at each level of coverage. We would be obliged if you could send us some examples of similar work and pictures; — Advice on integration of the PV facilities with the EV-charging equipment of the P&R site, currently proposed to be available to 100 spaces (or 10 %) of the P&R site. — Advice on potential uptake of EV and thus determining how much reinforcing / back-up capacity / network alteration is required from the main grid; — Advice on operating models and income generation; — Advice on financial support from either UK Central Government or EU; — Advice on planning impact of PV facilities installed at scale (may require interfacing with OCC's Transport Development Control); — Advice on likely maintenance costs of the PV facilities. The car park is on Google map hyper-link; https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QlYqpC6Mvydx6IHdttmfwlCe8dB4L6Xy&usp=sharing