Oct 19 2010
Satcon Technology Corporation, a company offering power conversion solutions for utility level renewable energy services, declared that CIRO One Solar PV Plant located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has selected its patented Solstice solutions for the proposed 63 MW solar power production facility.
The Satcon Solstice solution is offered as a total system along with an optimized inverter which acts as a central hub and influences the string level power transition and optimizes the energy produced The product increases the total energy generation of a solar power installation by 5 to 12% while concurrently reduces the investment on other system equipment by 20 to 25% when compared to the centralized type of inverters.
The CIRO One Solar PV Plant will incorporate Satcon Solstice 500 kilowatt (kW) inverters that are normally utilized in utility level solar solutions or commercial solar power plants for total power capturing and solar array administration. The 126 inverters to be installed in the solar power plant spread over an area of 180 acres in the Lapas District of Salinas will assist the plant to generate 116 million kWh of power every year which can be equated to the usage of 201,000 barrels of fossil fuel annually.
Steve Rhoades, President and CEO of Satcon, said that the CIPRO power plant is important for the company both from the point of its size and the advanced technology used. He added that the plant proved the capability of Satcon Solstice to manage such large type of installations where it could split the power production in fewer than 3 kW increments to provide the tractability of a readymade design to deal with the problems related to the terrain of the location yet could make improvements in the power production utilizing its compact energy production features.
Source: http://www.satcon.com/