£26,000
Saved per year
32
CO2 saved per year
Tonnes
85 kWp
System capacity
The Challenge
Phyllis Court is a private members club in Henley-on-Thames, founded in 1906 and located in a Georgian-style building set within its own grounds. It overlooks the finish line of the Henley Royal Regatta. The site’s history goes back much further: the original building dates from 1301, when it was the manor house of Henley-on-Thames, known as Fillets Court.
Today the club offers dining, events, a fitness centre and 17 individually decorated bedrooms, running year-round with a busy calendar of members’ events. All of that takes a lot of electricity, and as a members’ club, every pound saved on running costs is a pound that can go back into the club. Phyllis Court wanted to cut its energy costs and carbon footprint without changing the character of a historic riverside setting.
The Solution
Rather than put panels on the historic main house, Eden Sustainable designed and installed an 85 kWp solar PV system on the flat roof of the club’s fitness centre. It’s made up of 183 high-efficiency 465W panels feeding two Solis inverters, and the club 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 Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks to installation and commissioning, with the work planned around members, guests and events. The system has been generating since 2023.
The Outcome
The system now saves Phyllis Court around £26,000 a year on electricity and avoids 32 tonnes of CO₂ annually. For a members’ club, that’s money that can be reinvested in the club, its grounds and its programme of events.
It also shows that a club with more than a century of history, on a site dating back to 1301, can adopt modern clean energy while keeping its historic character exactly as it is.