solar farm Articles
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California Polytechnic University Case Study
California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) is a university in the California State University system and has been ranked the Best in the West 24 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report. As part of their net zero sustainability plan, the university wanted to build a solar farm on land adjacent to the campus. REC Solar was selected by Cal Poly to build a 4.5 megawatt (AC) solar farm. ...
By REC Solar
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Southbridge Solar Farm Case Study
"Patriot Worked diligently to complete the racking installation of the project through the cold harsh winter months in less than three weeks. The quality of their team and their ability to adapt to situations that arose during the installation were unsurpassed." Project Overview Patriot Solar Group (PSG) has had a long standing relationship with Martifer Solar, completing over 5MW of projects ...
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Solcast partnership with BloomSky deploying sky-imagers
Solcast has partnered with BloomSky on our Super Rapid Update solar power forecasting products. Get a sky-imager installed on your solar farm site with affordable and fast installation. Sky-imagers for short-term solar forecasting Solcast recently wrote about our super rapid update solar forecasting product for short-term prediction. Sky imagers blended with solar power forecasting In this ...
By Solcast
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Are solar farms threatening feed-in-tariffs?
A Government review is expected to clarify how feed-in-tariff will proceed without undermining confidence in the PV industry. A government announcement is expected this week on the fate of the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme, with a review of the policy, originally planned for 2012. This has been brought forward in response to an increasing number of solar farms being granted planning permission. ...
By Vital Energi
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De Aar Solar Project
The 50 MW De Aar solar park was submitted to Round 1 of the South African Government’s Renewable Energy Procurement Programme as part of a consortium. The project was awarded preferred bidder status by the Department under the programme and reached commercial operation date in early April, 2014. Each year the solar farm will generate sufficient electrical energy to meet the needs of ...
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Reduce Costs With Proper Solar Farm Dust Control
Solar farms are large scale solar installations of photovoltaic (PV) panels, referred to as solar panels. Unpaved roads line the rows of solar panels. These roads produce high quantities of dust. Poor solar farm dust control can hurt profit margins, damage equipment, and lead to health and safety issues. Access Roads Cause Dirty Solar Panels Unpaved access roads on solar farms are made of ...
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Let Solcast take the pain out of PV generation forecasting at your solar farm asset
Owners and operators of solar farms already have one too many things to think about. Compliance items stack up by the thousands very quickly. Utilities providing their network connections can impose new requirements without warning. Manufacturers of key components can go bankrupt and leave you without an important spare part! Don't let setting up solar forecasting technology at your asset be ...
By Solcast
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AltaTerra: U.S. solar power market soaring
The solar power market in the United States is in the midst of a dramatic upswing, with utility customer installations increasing from 65 MW in 2009 to 251 MW in 2010, according to a forthcoming report from AltaTerra Research (Palo Alto, CA). Pre-releasing highlights from the report at the Solar Power International conference in Los Angeles on October 13, AltaTerra said that the utility segment ...
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Solar farm for Mackies Ice Cream - Case Study
The Mackie family have been farming at Westertown farm since 1912 and Mackie’s of Scotland is now a well-known Scottish food brand. Mackie’s were formerly a milk retail company and in 1986 began making ice cream. They have an ambition to be the greenest company in the UK. In 2014/2015, Absolute successfully won a tender against SSE to install Scotland’s first solar farm. It was ...
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Clayhill – the UK’s first subsidy-free solar farm
Project Outline: Clayhill solar farm, located in Milton Keynes, was officially opened on 26 September 2017 by Claire Perry MP, the UK Minister for Climate Change & Industry. It took 12 weeks to complete and combines the latest in solar and energy storage technology, with 10MW of solar PV co-located with 5 energy storage units totalling 6MW. Anesco’s team navigated a range of ...
By Anesco Ltd
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Project Alamo 1 - San Antonio, Texas
Project Description: Alamo 1 represented the first stage of a 400 MWac solar PV project delivering clean, renewable energy to CPS Energy, the municipal utility for the City of San Antonio. This 39.2 MWac solar farm is made up of 167,680 modules on 2,260 single-axis and 1,932 dual-axis tracker rows. Commercial operation began in December 2013, serving approximately 9,150 homes. The ...
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Dark Horse Brewery Solar Installation Case Study
Project Overview: Patriot Solar Group in support of Contractors Building Supply inc. (CBSI) have supplied racking to install a sloped asphalt shingle roof mount on top of the Dark Horse Brewery roof. Working closely with CBSI, Patriot Solar Group was able to procure materials and deliver them to the job site on schedule for the Dark Horse Brewery solar installation. The 40 panel, 10 kW solar ...
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Large solar system in South Africa monitored by WS600 all-in-one weather sensor
The De Aar Solar farm is the largest solar farm ever completed in the Southern Hemisphere, Africa and the Middle East region. It’s placed six km away from De Aar in the Northern Cape. The farm expands over 100 hectares of the Emthanjeni Municipality – a local municipality in the Pixley ka Seme District. The facility generates electricity using 167’580 solar (PV) panels feeding ...
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Lowering uncertainty is fundamental to managing solar investment risk
The principal input to the rate of return calculation for a solar farm asset is the expected revenue generation from the solar farm. This highlights the importance of high quality solar irradiance data: revenue generation is primarily influenced by the availability of solar irradiance at that location over time. Humans dislike uncertainty Humans aren’t big fans of uncertainty. We go to ...
By Solcast
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Project - Solar Storage Portfolios in Europe
The European largest operational solar farm is Mula Photovoltaic Power Plant in Spain, with a total installed capacity of 494MW, built by ACS, a subsidiary of Cobra, in 2019. However, the title will not last for long as another Spanish solar power plant, the Francisco Pizarro Plant, is under construction with a total installed capacity of 590MW and 1.7 million solar modules, announced by ...
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White Farm Solar Installation Case Study
Project Overview: Patriot Solar Group teamed with a fellow Michigan resident in Battle Creek to construct two fixed pole mount structures. The array consists of 24, 250 watt panels that were installed by the owner after installation of the nut plate bracket and rails by Patriot Solar Group. The arrays’ tilt degree can be adjusted seasonally allowing for optimization during the harsh ...
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Politics and planning decisions – an uneasy marriage
“What the hell is that? Who is allowing these ugly things?” I heard from behind me as I crossed Waterloo bridge the other day. The ‘what’ they were referring to was the new sky scrapper going up at One Blackfriars (apparently, they’re trying to make the unofficial moniker of ‘The Boomerang’ stick – the lady behind me went with ‘The ...
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Green Acres, the largest solar farm in Western Canada
Hutterite colony invests in solar for business reasons You’ve seen them before, though they don’t tend to stand out. Hutterites—women in bright coloured, identical dresses and men in somber, dark jackets and hats. They’re almost always at the farmer’s market on a Saturday morning selling fresh eggs, carrots and potatoes. This quaint image of a quiet people is a ...
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Project with Alliander - Case Study
HyProvide™ A90 Electrolyser for Ecomunitypark in the Netherlands. To produce hydrogen on-site from excess renewable energy. Key Facts 3 x A-Series A90 Product 580 Production (kg H2/day) 28 Outlet pressure (bar) Netherlands Project location A large-scale Power-to-X pilot project Alliander, a Dutch energy company, chooses Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) to supply the electrolysers for a ...
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Promotional Products Fulfillment & Distribution - Project
Developer: Global Point Energy Inc. Location: Whitby, Ontario Size: 500 kW HELIENE Modules: 2000 – HELIENE 72M – 300Wp Modules PPFD was founded in 1986, Promotional Products Fulfillment & Distribution Ltd (PPFD) has a 125,000 square foot state-of-the-art warehouse facility custom designed and ...
By Heliene Inc.
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