Construction of a new solar power plant at the Isle of Wight has been completed. The Isle of Wight has only a few traditional power plants and gets the power from the main land. Hence, this latest plant will help in providing power grid for the island.
The plant has a 33000 V transformer for feeding the grid. It was built with the help of Mastervolt, a company specializing in inverters and grid-independent power supply systems. Mostly, central inverters are normally used for plants of this size; however, the owner of the new plant had selected string inverters to offer more redundancy and accessibility in the design. The SunMaster CS20 string inverters were chosen as they were quite efficient. The IP65 housing promotes open-air mounting and is suitable for LDK solar modules.
The ground mount installed plant has a power output up to 1.6 MW and contains 80 strings. Every string has 88 solar modules. Mastervolt’s SunMaster CS20 has been fixed in each string. Hence, the power plant is considered to be one of the biggest string inverter-containing plants in Britain.
According to David Craig, the General Manager of Mastervolt, Ireland and UK, the island is a vital place for the company, and several yachts that sail around the resorts of the island employ the company's power supply systems.
The company focuses on developing and producing grid-independent power supply systems and inverters for automotive, solar and marine uses.
Source: http://www.mastervolt.com/