The Welsh-based business that hires out electric golf carts and utility vehicles to events and festivals in UK and occasionally in Europe has installed 140 Mono tier one solar panels to its headquarters buildings based in an SSSI area.
They have also purchased an additional two new double decker buggy transporter trailers for the HGV fleet of now eight double decked trailers which transports the buggies from their headquarters facility in Newport to DP World Tour events in the UK and Europe.
The panels will generate a third of the business’s electricity requirements and save 20,000 kg of carbon emissions annually – The equivalent of 328 trees planted.
The business’s new source of energy will be used to power the charging of its 550 strong fleet of electric Club Car golf carts, carryall utility vehicles and villager people transporter buggies used by its customers such as DP World Tour and European Tour Productions for the staging and filming of their events.
It forms part of Hopkins Machinery’s vision to become one of the most sustainable event vehicle hire companies, with the latest project completion happening ready for the next season of golf events and helping them reduce their carbon emissions.
The double decked trucks will help half carbon emissions produced from the trucks transporting the buggies to and from events. As well as this they are currently using HGV’s with Euro 6 engines that are more efficient at reducing emissions than older trucks.
Evan Hopkins, Director at Hopkins Machinery, said: “Improving our carbon footprint and becoming more sustainable by reducing is a key objective for us as a business.
“Investment in our newly installed solar panels and our fleet of HGV’s has been committed with our long-term future in mind both as a cost-friendly way of generating our own electricity and hopefully to help the environment.
“Our business has been built on wetland surrounded by a series of reens that help drain the water off the land which is a protected environmental area we are proud to maintain to enhance the habitat surrounding our site.
“As we are an agricultural business at our roots, we are passionate about doing the right things to achieve our sustainability vision and operating as a friendly, sociable and forward-thinking business with the environment and community at its core.”
