Satcon Chosen for Landmark 5 Megawatt Project by Arizona Western College
September 27 2011 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Satcon Technology Corporation® (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading
provider of utility-scale power conversion solutions for the
renewable energy market, today announced that it has delivered five
megawatts (MW) of its industry-leading PowerGate Plus and Solstice
solutions to Arizona Western College to power a five megawatt
installation distributed across the college campus.
The Yuma Arizona project will serve as a state of the art
research and testing site for government and corporate solar
applications. The installation consists of five distinct
photovoltaic technologies including; mono crystalline, poly
crystalline, low concentration, high concentration, and thin
film.
This site utilizes a combination of Satcon’s PowerGate Plus and
Solstice inverter solutions. PowerGate Plus is the world’s most
widely deployed large-scale, Utility-Ready solution. Satcon
Solstice leverages string level power conversion and energy harvest
optimization that is integrated as a complete system with a highly
optimized centralized inverter. All of Satcon’s solutions include
advanced utility-ready features to enable simplified grid
interconnection and can be easily integrated into SCADA systems
through standardized communication interfaces.
This site will go live in October 2011 with an anticipated
energy output of 10,500,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per
year, equivalent to the annual consumption of 879 households in
Yuma Arizona.
About Satcon
Satcon Technology Corporation® is the leading provider of
utility-scale power conversion solutions for the renewable energy
market, enabling the industry’s most advanced reliable and proven
clean energy alternatives. For over 26 years, Satcon has designed
and delivered the next generation of efficient energy systems for
solar photovoltaic, stationary fuel cells, and energy storage
systems. To learn more about Satcon, please visit
www.Satcon.com.
About Arizona Western College
AWC is a public community college that offers over 90 programs
of study ranging from professional development, certificates to
associate and university transfer degrees. The main campus, one of
9, covers over 600 acres outside of Yuma. AWC serves two counties,
an area of 10,000 square miles, and serves nearly 13,000 students
annually.
The Arizona Western College campus has been a site of interest
to the U.S. Department of Energy ever since it brought on line a
105.6 kilowatt rooftop array in 2009, which is not only used for
classes locally but also available online at no cost to K-20
educators all over the world. Yuma’s unique climate – including an
extremely high rate of solar irradiation, designation by the
Guinness Book of World Records as the sunniest city on earth, with
an annual sunshine rate of 90% – make this part of the country
ideal for solar development .
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