Delicia Bakery – Exploring Solar Energy for the Future

Olivia43

At Delicia Bakery, I am considering a sustainable step forward: installing a solar system to power our operations. With rising energy costs in Norway and the growing importance of eco-friendly solutions, solar energy seems like a promising option for the long run.

I’d love to get some insights:
Is switching to solar a smart investment for small-to-medium businesses like bakeries?
What is the approximate cost range for installing such a system in Norway?
Which solar companies are considered reliable and provide customized solutions for businesses here?

At Delicia, we always aim to serve our customers with quality and responsibility, and sustainability is a big part of that vision. If you have experience, advice, or recommendations, I’d really appreciate hearing from you – it will help shape an important decision for our future.

Jamie Hall

Not too familiar with conditions in Norway! However, permit to offer a few general points.

First, you need to determine just which of your operations you plan to run on solar energy. This makes a big difference! For example, with good controls, there's no particularly good reason — other than it would be custom fabrication which might get expensive — that bake ovens couldn't be solar. In fact, there are camping ovens sold in North America which are — little ones. There's one real problem: they only work in full sun, so you would be very limited in when you could use them for much of the year

Or you might want to run them with electricity generated by photovoltaic panels. That would use standard electric ovens, but would require a very large photovoltaic array for a commercial oven — and again, that only works when the sun shines.

Or you could be planning on photovoltaics, but with huge battery storage for when it was dark or cloudy. Or you could be using photovoltaics, but with a continuing grid connection for when it was dark.

Then there is space heating for the facility.

Or are you just planning for what might be called domestic use? That's a bit simpler…

So to be really helpful, you would need to know what your objectives really were, and then one could begin thinking about how to meet them.

Larry Weingarten

Hi, I'd like to add to what @Jamie Hall says. I'd consider a step-wise process of first measuring the energy usage of everything you can measure. Find seasonal differences, to get an idea how much energy is going to building energy usage and temperature maintenance. Once you know that, you'll see where the big loads, worth going after are. Now, do everything possible to make these things as efficient as possible. Go a bit crazy doing this, as it will pay off. Once you've made things efficient, measure your energy usage again and now you'll find a substantially smaller solar system, whether electric and/or thermal will get the job done. I'll add that making things efficient can cover a lot of territory, from daylighting strategies, to airsealing, to slightly oversizing wiring to reduce energy losses, to heat recovery of all sorts… and more. Good question! 😊

Yours, Larry

ratio

Do you sell potted meat products at Delicia Bakery in Norway?

hot_rod

You might look for someone local to do a system simulation and design. I think vertical facades are common in that area to capture the low winter sun angle.

Possibly the government has a website to direct you to professional help, incentives, data, etc.