£14,500
Saved per year
9
CO2 saved per year
Tonnes
42 kWp
System capacity
The Challenge
Great Dinworthy Farm sits in the hamlet of Dinworthy, just outside Bradworthy in the rolling farmland north of Holsworthy. It has been farmed for a very long time: an 1870 directory for the parish lists Thomas Chubb, blacksmith and farmer, at Great Dinworthy.
Farming today runs on electricity as much as on diesel, from first thing in the morning to the end of the day, and rising grid prices hit rural businesses hard. Great Dinworthy wanted to cut that cost and generate its own power from the farm buildings it already had.
The Solution
Eden Sustainable designed and installed a 42 kWp rooftop solar PV system on the farm buildings, made up of 92 high-efficiency 460W panels. The farm funded the project itself as a capital investment, so it owns the system outright and keeps every pound of saving it produces.
Eden managed the full project, from design and the grid connection with National Grid Electricity Distribution to installation and commissioning, with the work planned around a farm that doesn’t stop. With Eden’s own team based in Exeter, this was a Devon project delivered by a Devon company. The system has been generating since 2022.
The Outcome
The system now saves Great Dinworthy Farm around £14,500 a year on electricity and avoids 9 tonnes of CO₂ annually. For a 42 kWp system, that’s a strong return, and it shows that solar works just as well for family farms as for large industrial sites.
Every unit generated on the farm is protected from future rises in grid prices.