Background

• QinetiQ is one of the world's largest defence technology contractors.
• A solution was needed to significantly improve the lighting across their large headquarters site in Farnborough.
• There was a lack of quality lighting across the site for pedestrians and vehicles
• The existing lighting was also high wattage but low quality.

Challenge

• Digging trenches for new mains powered cabling to replace the failed circuits would have caused extensive disruption.
• It would also have been very costly.
• The new lighting solution should provide quality year-around lighting, be easy to deploy and cost effective to run.
• Ensuring that installation works had a minimal environmental impact was also a major objective.
• The solution also needed to be environmentally sustainable and significantly help reduce carbon emissions.

Products - In Action

• After a site visit, Prolectric developed a full lighting design and proposal, ensuring the new site lighting would reach the British lighting standards.
• A total of 64 AE3 and AE6 solar street lights and 65 solar bollards were installed, across car parks and walkways - delivering a bright and reliable year-round lighting solution without noise, emissions and the need for mains power.
• Prolectric’s expert, in-house, installation team carried out the work. It took only 3 weeks to complete and was done in accordance with QinetiQ’s health and safety regulations.
• This project demonstrates how sustainable solar lighting delivers a yearround, commercially viable solution that can help towards reaching your sustainability targets.

Products - Features

• The Prolectric AE3 and AE6 are a highquality, year-round, permanent solarpowered LED street lights, with no need for mains electrical power.
• They can be fitted, or retro-fitted, easily, quickly and economically as there is no need to install cables or dig trenches.
• Fully solar powered – no carbon emissions, no noise, no electricity bills & less maintenance required.
• The AE3 and AE6 feature a smart controller and Passive Infra Red (PIR) sensor, ensuring the unit lasts from dust to dawn - even throughout the darkest winter months.
• Our ST series bollards use the latest LED lights and battery optimisation technology, ensuring bright light for as long as needed.
• The vandal-resistant bollards have a polycarbonate domed head for strength and durability.

Why Choose Prolectric? 

ZERO CARBON - No fumes or greenhouse gas emissions.

ZERO FUEL - No diesel costs, spills or refuelling.

ZERO NOISE - Benefits for urban locations & night projects.

About Prolectric

Prolectric is the off grid, renewable lighting and power specialists. Leading manufacturers of sustainable solar lighting, solar hybrid power generators and solar CCTV systems - to the construction, national house building, infrastructure and rail industries. 

The company’s game-changing solar technology provides a practical way for businesses to achieve their carbon-reduction commitments, enabling them to move away from polluting fossil fuelled or mains powered systems. Our solar tower lights, hybrid generators & CCTV provide high-performance site lighting, power and security - with minimal environmental impact & low running costs. In particular, our lighting systems produce zero carbon, zero noise, need little maintenance and require zero fuel. 

Our range of environmentally friendly, advanced performance products have been designed as direct like-for-like diesel replacements, making them a simple switch. The technology is tried and tested and proven to work all-year round, in all weather conditions over multiple winter and summer cycles. This is backed up by real world performance data, and customer testimonials.

As a specialist sustainability disruptor, Prolectric was awarded a Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development in 2021 and holds a Gold CSR accreditation.

Prolectric’s pioneering solar and off-grid systems are designed, built and engineered by an expert in-house Research & Development team at the company’s Headquarters in Clevedon, Bristol.