Sustainable Sourcing
Products and Suppliers
Products must:
- Meet relevant standards eg. MCS, CE, G98 & G99 certification
- Be of high quality and reliability with good warranty terms
- Be supported by good suppliers & service
- Be good value for money
- Be energy efficient
Suppliers are chosen based on:
- Our research
- Our experiences
- Recommendation
- Their reputation
- Their service
- Good business & personal relationships
- Their financial stability
- Quality and reliability of products
- Environmental credentials
- Innovation
- We choose the best equipment from the world’s leading manufacturers to ensure your success!
Offering an extensive range of the best products at competitive prices.
Sustainable Sourcing
We aim to use products from suppliers who manufacture ethically and with minimal environmental impact wherever possible.
Product Stewardship
- Wind & Sun ensure that all products that we sell are safe and fit for purpose.
- Wind & Sun try to ensure that all products we sell have no detrimental effects on the environment.
Embodied Energy from Production
Embodied energy is the energy used to produce something and then transport it
- Many of our suppliers use renewable power in their processes.
- Renewable energy equipment generates more energy over its lifetime than is used in its production.
Influencing Suppliers
To influence our suppliers to support sustainable practices, a questionnaire, asking about their policy on sustainability issues, will be sent out.
Fronius Inverters
The Fronius maxim “Sustainably designed, sustainably made”, means their products are not only created in an especially resource-friendly way but are also designed for superior durability and reparability.
With 100% assembly based in Austria they use 100% electrical energy on site from renewable sources with PV with total output of 2.3 MWp installed at Austrian locations. 81% of all energy consumption - including mobility and maintenance - comes from renewable sources.
With their own 6,070 m² PV systems, Fronius achieved an annual yield of over 588,400 kWh in 2019. This amount of energy would supply around 150 households for a whole year, or alternatively, 4 million km could be covered by an electric car.
See more: Fronius Sustainability
Meyer Burger PV Panels
Meyer Burger's philosophy of integrated production of solar cells and solar modules, makes sustainability their number one priority with a committment to reducing CO2 emissions, limiting energy and water consumption and promoting waste recycling. In 2020, 16402 MWh of electricity was produced with their own PV systems. Manufacturing is based in Germany goods and services are mainly procured from local manufacturers and European suppliers
Read more: Meyer Burger Sustainability
REC Solar PV Panels
REC panels have low carbon footprint, quick energy payback time and are easy to re-cycle at end of life.
The REC production facility in Singapore has ISO14001 certification and includes a large solar PV system for on-site energy generation, with around 3,000 kWp of rooftop solar PV installed, generating around 3,500 Mwh of clean solar energy per year.
Thanks to continuously implementing new measures, REC was able to reduce specific energy consumption since 2020 by 40% to 90MWh per MW of produced solar panels in 2022.
See: REC Sustainability and: REC CSR Report 2022
SMA Inverters
SMA have a high commitment to sustainability. Their aspiration is to practice sustainability in all areas of the company and to take a leading role in climate protection.
SMA inverters are produced in a net zero carbon factory in Germany. Since 2020, they have been supplying their headquarters in Germany entirely with decentralized renewable power from the immediate surroundings including their own PV systems
By 2025, they have set the target of sourcing 100% of their electricity globally from renewable sources and are already very close to achieving this with a global ratio of 97.5% in 2022.
Read more: SMA Sustainability
Schletter PV Mounting Systems
Schletter's values include:
- Sustainable material selection
- High durability
- Reusable materials
- Low maintenance
They have the following environmental targets:
By The End Of 2024:
- 50% recycled packaging / single-material packaging / alternative packaging materials
- 95% recyclable material at the end of the lifecycle of products
By The End Of 2025:
- 100% monitored supply chain (Tier 1)
- 50% recycled materials in our products
- Reduction of products’ CO2 footprints by decreasing their power-to-weight ratios (kg of material per MW of installed capacity) by 5% annually
By The End Of 2028:
- Achieve 100% coverage of the power supply for administrative workstations from renewable or green energy sources at Schletter locations
Read More: Schletter Sustainability
my-PV Heating Controllers
As a manufacturer of solar-electric building technology, when looking to build new premises it was clear to my-PV that they should implement their own philosophy of photovoltaic heat at the new location. The 100 kWp photovoltaic system, which is mounted on the roof and in the facade of the building, provides massive energy excess that can be optimally used with the thermal storage mass in the building.
Details on the building here.
Read about performance of their building here