Suffolk-wide, and across the country, there are gates which would be ideal to be either automated or replaced with electric gates, but there are issues with supplying power.

Living Metal are working with local experts, Solar Gates to provide you with the most cost effective solution to delivering power to your new electric gates. Rather than the impracticality of running electrical cables from your house to your gate, you can have the convenience of PV solar panels.

Modern solar panels are more efficient than in the past, and are ideal for supplying all of the power for your gates and associated devices (intercoms, security panels) even on the most cloudy day. Batteries store the sun's energy so that you can use your gate at night.

Not only is this better for the environment, with no consumption of fossil fuels to power your security gates, but switching to solar energy also means that you save money on your electrical bills in the long term. It is also likely to be most cost-effective than running (and burying) electrical cables from the gates to the property. The further the gate is from existing electrical circuits.