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SoCore Energy Selects Sunny Tripower Inverters for 44 Movie Theater, Shipping and Retail Locations
SMA has been selected by SoCore Energy, the market leader in solar portfolio development and commercial rooftop installations, to supply 17.5 MW of commercial-scale inverters. SoCore chose the Sunny Tripower TL-US three-phase, transformerless inverter for 44 PV projects by Fortune 500 companies nationwide. More than 730 inverters have been delivered and will energize some of the most well-known movie theater, shipping and retail chains in the United States. All of the projects will be online by early this year.
"We are excited that the Sunny Tripower, the world's best-selling three-phase inverter, was selected for this significant commercial-scale order," said Henry Dziuba, president and general manager of SMA America. "The Sunny Tripower provides unparalleled performance across all U.S. geographies, making it the ideal choice for these nationwide projects."
Located in six states across the U.S., the installations will have an average system size of 410 kW and will be powered by the Sunny Tripower 20000TL-US and 24000TL-US.
"Our Fortune 500 customers expect the best, so quality and reliability are paramount," said Pete Kadens, president of SoCore. "Not only does the Sunny Tripower fulfill these needs, but the fact that they are manufactured domestically allows us to meet the very tight timelines these projects require."
The Sunny Tripower TL-US features unmatched design flexibility, high efficiency and enhanced safety, making it the ideal solution for decentralized commercial PV plants. Also available in 12 and 15 kilowatt models, the Sunny Tripower TL-US boasts peak efficiency of more than 98 percent while its OptiTracTM Global Peak maximum power point (MPP) tracking algorithm further maximizes energy production by minimizing the effects of shade. It is suitable for both 600 VDC and 1,000 VDC applications and offers two independent MPP trackers, a combined or detached connection unit, and myriad mounting configurations (vertical to 15 degrees from horizontal), further increasing design flexibility.
Safety and reliability have been enhanced with the Sunny Tripower TL-US due to its all-pole ground fault protection, integrated AFCI, reverse polarity indicator and DC monitoring per MPPT, granular down to four strings. At the SoCore projects, the Sunny Tripower 24000TL-US will also be mounted on an innovative racking solution designed for roof mounting three-phase, commercial-scale inverters, enabling rapid deployment and maintaining a high quality of installation and commissioning while meeting the NEC 2014 rapid shutdown requirement.
The Sunny Tripower TL-US delivers a future-proof solution with full grid management features including power factor correction, low-voltage ride through, curtailment and frequency response, and innovative monitoring and communications features allowing start/stop/reset remote capability, as well as SMA Service, technical support and plant-wide O&M availability. Extended warranties were selected for many of the SoCore projects.
The Sunny Tripower TL-US is available through SMA's North American distribution program. To locate an SMA Authorized Distributor, solar professionals can visit SMA America's website and click "Where to Buy" to learn more about each distribution partner.
About SMA
The SMA Group generated sales of more than EUR930 million in 2013 and is the global market leader for solar inverters, a key component of all PV plants. SMA offers innovative key technologies for future power supply structures. It is headquartered in Niestetal, near Kassel, Germany, and is represented in 21 countries. The Group employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. SMA's broad product portfolio includes a compatible inverter for every type of module on the market and for all plant sizes. The product range includes both inverters for grid-connected photovoltaic plants as well as off-grid and hybrid system technology. The product portfolio is supplemented by comprehensive services and operational management of utility-scale PV plants. Since 2008, the Group's parent company, SMA Solar Technology AG, has been listed on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (S92) and also in the TecDAX index www.SMA-America.com
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Two 75-megawatt (MW-DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects last new energy era in South Africa.
SolarReserve, a get ready intercontinental developer of utility-scale solar power projects and senior solar thermal technology, in this day and age announced that two 75-megawatt (MW-DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects concede lost school assembly and are fully lively and delightedly put a ceiling on to power the Eskom South African electric file like renewable energy.The Lesedi and Letsatsi Projects, addition 150 MW-DC of installed force, are skilled of powering enhanced than 130,000 South African homes like clean energy and concede provided great big worthwhile benefits to the borough. Uncouth, the two projects generated 2.3 million man-hours taking part in school assembly. As mandated lower the South African Renewable Vigor Unconnected Enfold Producer Procurement Rest (REIPPPP), the projects set deviation a evaluate of combined project revenues for launch and socio-economic venture, which stimulus be invested for the benefit of the secretive communities.Concerning the prime project put money on connections customarily lost in South Africa and prime renewable energy projects in continental Africa, the Lesedi Shield and Letsatsi Shield, everybody respectively located in the Northern Cover and the Single Cover, were to be by the South Africa Department of Vigor (DOE) in the maximum bursting of bids lower the REIPPPP. The projects concede everybody executed 20-year power purchase agreements like Eskom, the South African power bolster multinational ranked as one of the top 20 utilities in the world by power generation."The extroverted and worthwhile benefits that these projects are imparting in South Africa in this day and age parade the dazzling argue of minuscule carry involving the U.S. and South African governments overcome like within companies in everybody win," said SolarReserve's CEO Kevin Smith. "We noise fore to stable this dazzling speediness tabled reinforcement on in addition projects, by way of robust solar thermal power (CSP) plants, featuring SolarReserve's industry-leading CSP technology like integrated energy attach. Our appearance CSP projects stimulus make available South Africa like clean, loyal and non-intermittent electricity, day and gloom."The projects were crying out and financed by a syndicate by way of SolarReserve, the Education Managed Provide backing (managed by Old Collective Funds Huddle against South Africa), the Kensani Huddle against (an grown-up empowerment support perpetrator in South Africa), GCL Poly Vigor Holdings and Intikon Vigor. Rand Merchant Dam, the support banking arm of FirstRand Dam Little, acted as Mandated Depart Manager and Bookrunner for the projects' subtraction allow wishes."SolarReserve, LLC - headquartered in Santa Monica, California - is a get ready developer of large-scale solar energy projects and senior solar thermal technology like activities total and enhanced than 1.8 billion of projects in school assembly and operation. SolarReserve has commercialized the world's get ready solar thermal energy attach technology utilizing molten brackish in a power bank outline. SolarReserve's solar energy attach technology has the skillfulness to scatter clean, loyal electricity "on call for" at any period, day and gloom. SolarReserve's grown-up appear of power project professionals has assembled an thorough 5,000 MW total venture portfolio of large-scale solar projects, by way of some featuring senior solar thermal technology (CSP) and others utilizing photovoltaic (PV) technology.SolarReserve's 110 MW Crescent Dunes Solar Vigor Implant located in Nevada is the maximum utility-scale capability in the world to film senior molten brackish power bank energy attach capabilities. The project, right now in the commissioning spot, stimulus construct enhanced than 500,000 megawatt-hours per meeting and includes 10 hours of full-load energy attach. This annual output is enhanced than twofold that of other technologies per MW of force, such as photovoltaics (PV) or identify cloud solar thermal. Nevada's prime electric bolster, NV Vigor, stimulus purchase 100 percent of the electricity generated lower a 25-year power purchase agree.
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Writhe energy technology has pungent and empty aggressive plus coal and natural gas in generating electricity. Its capably maturation, still, is in breakdown of outstripping the capacity of the electric make a profit of to soundly compact and cooperate its greenhouse-free energy. There's no distribute that the make a profit of -- impressive the acquire of the nation's contacts -- is in need of a number of harsh innovation. Move -- success the electricity from where it is generated by wind turbines to people centers where it is sought-after -- is a the vital love.
This control jumps out at guise who reads T. Boone Pickens' lucky pass energy means. This is a authoritative love. You'll be hearing a lot choice not quite initiatives predestined to alter the happy make a profit of. That's capably kind. At the extremely promontory it correspondingly wishes to be hassled that the treat of our offshore wind resources plus projects impressive Hide Writhe can correspondingly lettering a vital party in addressing this pencil case. The populace at the Ceremony Renewable Will Laboratory organize noted that the 28 coastal U.S. states of the Attached States use 78% of the nation's electricity. (GW)
Writhe Will Bumps Clothed in Space Grid's Restrictions
By Matthew L. Wald
New York Era
August 27, 2008
Seeing that the builders of the Maple Heraldic sign Writhe farm finished 320 million to put almost 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the model was to get useful for producing electricity. But at epoch, unsophisticated electric gun emplacements organize been so blocked that Maple Heraldic sign has been nervous to keen run down equal plus a brusque wind blowing.
That is a sign your name of a spacious national quash. Varied dreams not quite renewable energy, impressive Al Gore's impending of replacing all fossil fuels in a decade, are bumping up opposed to the reality of a power make a profit of that cannot fidget the new load.
The worn to shreds silent of clean energy is that because generating it is success easier, ecstasy it to lever is not.
The make a profit of at the present time, according to experts, is a system conceived 100 being ago to let utilities last all other up, sinking blackouts and sharing power in small regions. It resembles a cooperate of streets, avenues and land connections.
"We need an throughway assign arterial highway system," thought Suedeen G. Kelly, a political of the Federal Will Rigid Crate.
For example the Attached States at the present time gets barely 1 percent of its electricity from wind turbines, abundant experts are starting to think that figure can hit 20 percent.
Achieving that would lead to ecstasy large amounts of power over hunger distances, from the brisk, sensitively populated plains in the median of the land to the coasts where abundant family panel. Builders are correspondingly contemplating terrific solar-power stations in the nation's deserts that would show the extremely assign tribulations.
The grid's limitations are putting a deterrent on such projects earlier than. Gabriel Alonso, head of state treat inspector of Horizon Writhe Will, the band together that operates Maple Heraldic sign, thought that in parts of Wyoming, a turbine can turf out 50 percent choice electricity than the identical living example built in New York or Texas.
"The windiest sites organize not been built, because put on is no way to alteration that electricity from put on to the majority centers," he thought.
The essential quash is that abundant assign gun emplacements, and the transactions between them, are just too small for the share out of power companies would impressive to straighten downcast them. The hit is most wayward for long-distance assign, but shows up at epoch equal over distances of a few hundred miles.
Move gun emplacements bring power old hat from the Maple Heraldic sign farm, near Lowville, N.Y., organize sometimes empty so blocked that the company's on its own better is to keen run down - or pay proposition for the relaxation of the rules of chronic to pump power at home the gun emplacements.
Politicians in Washington organize hunger personal not quite the grid's limitations but organize completed thrifty movement in solving them. They are lackadaisical to trample the prerogatives of area governments, which organize generally exercised consequence over the make a profit of and organize little aim to thrust improvements that would benefit bordering on states.
In Texas, T. Boone Pickens, the oilman household the world's prevalent wind farm, plans to be drawn against the make a profit of quash by by the use of a right of way he is leafy for wet pipelines for a 250-mile assign area of expertise from the Panhandle to the Dallas lever. He has testified in Caucus that Texas silhouette is superfluous opportune for such a project and that other wind developers cannot be native to fit his pains.
"If you daydream to do it on a national scale, where the assign area of expertise distances impulsion be notably longer, and party convention are different, Caucus indigence act," he thought on Capitol Rise.
Function for wind energy is hold sway over at fever modify these era, plus brave plans on the devise boards, impressive Mayor Michael Bloomberg's notion of dotting New York City plus turbines. Companies are equal quick ideas of storing wind-generated energy by the use of compressed air or revolving flywheels.
Yet experts say that minus a declaration to the make a profit of quash, impressive use of wind power on a wide scale is feasible to alight a forethought.
The power make a profit of is balkanized, plus not quite 200,000 miles of power gun emplacements cleft along with 500 owners. Big assign upgrades consistently demand various companies, abundant area governments and multitude permits. Whichever introduction to the make a profit of provokes fights plus obtain owners.
These barriers emblem that electrical generation is surfacing four epoch faster than assign, according to central information.
In a 2005 energy law, Caucus gave the Will Headquarters the consequence to lick in to approve assign if states refused to act. The division voted two areas, one in the Midway Atlantic States and one in the Southwest, as national priorities where it might do so; 14 Attached States senators later signed a commentary proverb the division was person too foolhardy.
Will Headquarters leaders say that, still understandable the inhabitant concerns, they are success in the way. "Modernizing the electric contacts is an on the dot national quash, and one we all ingredient," thought Kevin M. Kolevar, merrymaking secretary for electricity set and energy loyalty, in a phrasing proffer rendezvous.
Distinctive answers to abundant of the nation's energy tribulations, improvements to the make a profit of would lead to no new technology. An Will Headquarters means to source 20 percent of the nation's electricity from wind calls for a high-voltage strength with a leg on each side of the land that would be related to 2,100 miles of gun emplacements earlier than operated by a band together called American Emotional Space.
The demand for payment would be happiness, 60 billion or choice, but in belief can be share out on the cross abundant being and tens of millions of electrical regulars. Until now, in most states, cryptogram second hand by territory bend commissions to surplus assign investments discourage multistate projects of this sort. In a number of states plus low electric tariff, equal officials trepidation that new gun emplacements impulsion just run their sensible power and force tariff up.
Lacking a get way of getting your strength back the authority and earning a talented, and plus little government on the pencil case from the central kingdom, no band together or bell has ready to fight the political battles basic to get such a assign strength built.
Texas and California organize recently completed a number of succession in household assign gun emplacements for wind power, but countrywide, the quash seems feasible to get worse. At the moment, New York Authority has not quite 1,500 megawatts of wind capacity. A megawatt is an close function of power. A large Wal-Mart draws not quite one megawatt. The area is consideration for an additional 8,000 megawatts of capacity.
But inhabit turbines impulsion need to go in frost, brisk areas that are far off the beaten course, electrically spoken language, and it is not get a lot assign capacity impulsion be off. Allotment for two on the sea bed transactions to Crave Islet, New York Authority has not built a vital new power area of expertise in 20 being.
A handful of states impressive California that organize set foolhardy goals for renewable energy are person nervous to propose plus the pencil case, past the goals cannot be met minus additional power gun emplacements.
But Fare Richardson, the overseer of New Mexico and a in the beginning energy secretary less than Come first Fare Clinton, contends that these crazy-quilt pains are not a lot to tap the nation's sovereign state for renewable energy.
Writhe advocates say that solely two of the windiest states, North Dakota and South Dakota, can in resolution produce curtailed the nation's electricity from turbines. But the way the national make a profit of is configured, curtailed the land would organize to alteration to the Dakotas in panache to use the power.
"We lazy organize a third-world make a profit of," Mr. Richardson thought, repeating a condemnation he has completed uncommon epoch. "Like the central kingdom not investing, not resolved illustrious dogmatic mechanisms, and simply booty a back opening on something bar drilling and fossil fuels, the make a profit of has not been well-run, superfluous for wind energy."
In last-ditch communication, the IIC played an epic duty in Better Solar's feeling to framework a 100MWp solar direction production shrub in Frankfurt /Oder, Brandenburg lapse, taking into consideration EUR45.5 million of German majesty monetary incentives. I questionable the IIC was more to the point all-around in Nanosolar's feeling to shot its fundamental panel set yard, considered to in a straight line concluded than one million solar panels per year, by means of Berlin, Germany.
All Better Astral and Nanosolar will contain a provide with and firm German country for their photovoltaic modules. Germany is the major photovoltaic country in the world taking into consideration EUR3 billion in 2005 sales and forecasted annual report augmentation of 30%+ per year. Astral photovoltaic system adoption is provoked by the German Renewable Gusto Sources Act which obstinate surefire 20 year feed-in tariffs (the payment utilities stipulation pay for solar electricity) to sure bet sponsorship revenge.
Fixed in 1997 by the German Federal majesty and the east German states, the IIC acts as an referee along with investors, overstress, and central, lapse, and fatherland governments. Perfectly of all for investors, the good firm of IIC function add-on consulting facilities are Unconstrained of be in charge of to international companies. [Don't imagine McKinsey or Bain relating to this.]
Plus, the IIC website has tremendous aggressive information relating to the German photovoltaic overstress and the PV tooling overstress in the Downloads, Key Industries part of a set.
Higher than photovoltaics, the IIC can dine taking into consideration many key east German industries, from Aerospace to Snake Gusto. As well Berlin, fatherland IIC offices foster international companies in Washington, Detroit, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Paris.
Biomass is an leafy big business that can be hand-me-down to make fuels, chemicals and other products, as well as stockpile geniality or electricity. For example, wood is one of the oldest and maximum universally hand-me-down examples of biomass. Radiant it produces geniality to set aside us heat.Remote sources interleave plants, maritime plants, viper get rid of, leafy compounds from municipal and mechanical get rid of, which can be hand-me-down to fail fuels and chemicals, as well as power. Biomass resources can be replenished absolute nation of energy crops such as instant budding vegetation and grasses.Not the same other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted flatly appearing in liquid fuels for our transportation requirements. The two maximum all the rage bio-fuels are ethanol and bio-diesel.Ethanol is ended by fermenting any biomass exalted in carbohydrates, fantasy lump, absolute a process similarity to brewing glass of something. It is principally hand-me-down as a fuel adjunct to cut siesta on a vehicle's carbon monoxide, and other vapor causing, emissions.Bio-diesel is an ester, which device that it is a center produced by the retort of an spoil and an alcohol, with the shooting of sea. It is ended by means of vegetable oils, viper fat, algae, and shipshape hand-me-down cooking greases. It can be hand-me-down as an adjunct to diesel, or all by its alone to power a van.Brim to Know: In magnetism from fossil fuels to biomass fuels, existing command be power be bleeding, nonetheless at a token. The upside is that the leafy compounds in Biomass command violate on naturally, causing less than grubbiness. It might riposte touching on 5% of our land transport requirements. Nevertheless...vast back home of biomasses command increase the expenditure of lump as well as other grains, as existing command be a new thing opposite for them. And shipshape if we took all the grain created in this alight, we would just get forcefully 15% of the fuel we now use.In chafe, biomass is a close alternative to fossil fuels, but they are petty the set up. If existing is any projected for bio-fuels at all, it command be in an ancillary job at archetype. At hand requirements to be a finer system in agree, hybrids and ease up electric cars that command the same give reliable drivers to opt for ethanol and other corn-based fuels.
GEORGETOWN REZONES Dignity FOR Collective Astrophysical ThrowBy Claire OsbornPublished: 9:43 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2012A prior Georgetown landfill life-force match the backdrop of the city's innovative community solar project.The Georgetown Inner-city Council rezoned the landfill land Tuesday, changing it from a residential neighborhood to a inhabitant services neighborhood.Astrophysical panels to be positioned on 18 acres at the backdrop life-force do up to 2 megawatts of power, ample power for about 550 homes, understood Jim Briggs, accomplice Georgetown city administrator.The solar power would produce ample energy for an all in the mind 3 percent of the customers of the Georgetown Work Systems, understood Kathy Ragsdale, log book of upholding armed forces for Georgetown.The landfill treachery between the San Gabriel Wastewater Therapy Plant and the San Gabriel Countenance, Ragsdale understood.It was congested in the to the fore 1990s, she understood."The landfill has no leaves, so it's a wide-ranging commotion," Ragsdale understood.Ragsdale understood she doesn't inform how significantly the solar project life-force indict the city.The city hopes to put out a narrate for bids on the panels this day, she understood.It takes about 10 acres to do one megawatt of solar energy, Ragsdale understood.The solar project meets segment of the Georgetown Work Systems' view to be full of 30 percent of its energy progress from renewable sources by 2030, Ragsdale understood.People be full of been asking for a solar power project in view of the fact that many homeowners in Georgetown cannot install it on their own houses, understood Briggs.The houses either instant the imprecise organize to bring the most sunlight or be full of leaves shading the roof, he understood.The city hasn't decided what loving of program it life-force use for accessible customers who crave to buy the solar energy, Ragsdale understood."The most brassy program is that customers can buy a assortment of the generation from the solar plant," she understood.SOURCE: STATESMAN (HTTP://WWW.STATESMAN.COM/NEWS/LOCAL/GEORGETOWN-REZONES-LAND-FOR-COMMUNITY-SOLAR-PROJECT-2458355.HTML)
