Blue Sky Solar's 2MW Thin-Film Solar Array Delivers Impressive 117% of Predicted Power
/EINPresswire.com/ Performance Testing data shows Blue Sky Solar's 2MW solar energy plant is delivering 17+% more power than anticipated under the predictive model. Blue Sky Solar designed and built the plant for client Air Products corporate campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Blue Sky Solar designed and built the plant for client Air Products corporate campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The testing was conducted in accordance with pre-defined testing and measurement protocols and analysis and computation methods.
Online monitoring of the system can be viewed at http://live.deckmonitoring.com/?id=air_products.
Blue Sky Solar CEO Bruce Carlson, Vice-Chairman Jim Cooke, VP Project Developer Brady Kelly and Engineer Carlos Romero were on hand July 12th when John McGlade, Chairman and CEO of Air Products, flipped an oversized switch and, as The Beatle's "Here Comes the Sun" filled the air, powered up the 15 acre, 2MW solar farm.
More than 500 Corporate and Government guests attended the ceremony, marking the completion of the largest silicon thin-film solar energy plant in the United States.
Blue Sky Solar, chosen by Air Products to be the project's turnkey installer, worked with Newkirk Electric Associates, which provided the mechanical and electrical construction; Newkirk was previously the primary contractor for the DeSoto Florida Power and Light 27MW PV solar complex, one of the largest operational solar PV plants in North America.
In early engineering work, Blue Sky optimized the solar field size by precise balancing of the inverters.
Consequently Air Products will now generate about 2MW of electricity rather than the previously announced 1.5MW. Now producing 2MW of renewable power, Air Products field reduces the company's dependence on purchased electricity, thereby lowering its carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by approximately 2,000 tons per year. Clean solar energy will now power half of the company's six administrative buildings, saving $250,000 in annual energy costs.
Construction on the 15-acre site began in October, 2010. Blue Sky Solar installed a total of 11,239 silicon, tandem junction thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels, manufactured by Astronergy and ENN Solar, both Air Products customers. In every phase of construction Blue Sky Solar developed and utilized innovative, cost-saving installation methods and balance-of-system components to significantly lower project costs.
"Blue Sky Solar working with Air Products is a great combination as it reinforces both companies'
commitment to provide money saving solutions in solar manufacturing as well as the all-in cost of an
installed farm" said Bruce Carlson, Blue Sky CEO.
Blue Sky Solar LLC (http//www.blueskysolar.com), headquartered in Celebration, Florida is a provider of turnkey commercial and utility scale solar energy installations. The company strives to persistently source innovative and reliable solutions, which in turn can lower the cost of solar PV in all areas: manufacturing, installation, operations and maintenance. Our stated goal is to hasten the adoption of clean, reliable solar energy by lowering its cost.
Tanika Mosely
Blue Sky Solar LLC
407 557-2719
www.blueskysolar.com
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Blue Sky Solar designed and built the plant for client Air Products corporate campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The testing was conducted in accordance with pre-defined testing and measurement protocols and analysis and computation methods.
Online monitoring of the system can be viewed at http://live.deckmonitoring.com/?id=air_products.
Blue Sky Solar CEO Bruce Carlson, Vice-Chairman Jim Cooke, VP Project Developer Brady Kelly and Engineer Carlos Romero were on hand July 12th when John McGlade, Chairman and CEO of Air Products, flipped an oversized switch and, as The Beatle's "Here Comes the Sun" filled the air, powered up the 15 acre, 2MW solar farm.
More than 500 Corporate and Government guests attended the ceremony, marking the completion of the largest silicon thin-film solar energy plant in the United States.
Blue Sky Solar, chosen by Air Products to be the project's turnkey installer, worked with Newkirk Electric Associates, which provided the mechanical and electrical construction; Newkirk was previously the primary contractor for the DeSoto Florida Power and Light 27MW PV solar complex, one of the largest operational solar PV plants in North America.
In early engineering work, Blue Sky optimized the solar field size by precise balancing of the inverters.
Consequently Air Products will now generate about 2MW of electricity rather than the previously announced 1.5MW. Now producing 2MW of renewable power, Air Products field reduces the company's dependence on purchased electricity, thereby lowering its carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by approximately 2,000 tons per year. Clean solar energy will now power half of the company's six administrative buildings, saving $250,000 in annual energy costs.
Construction on the 15-acre site began in October, 2010. Blue Sky Solar installed a total of 11,239 silicon, tandem junction thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels, manufactured by Astronergy and ENN Solar, both Air Products customers. In every phase of construction Blue Sky Solar developed and utilized innovative, cost-saving installation methods and balance-of-system components to significantly lower project costs.
"Blue Sky Solar working with Air Products is a great combination as it reinforces both companies'
commitment to provide money saving solutions in solar manufacturing as well as the all-in cost of an
installed farm" said Bruce Carlson, Blue Sky CEO.
Blue Sky Solar LLC (http//www.blueskysolar.com), headquartered in Celebration, Florida is a provider of turnkey commercial and utility scale solar energy installations. The company strives to persistently source innovative and reliable solutions, which in turn can lower the cost of solar PV in all areas: manufacturing, installation, operations and maintenance. Our stated goal is to hasten the adoption of clean, reliable solar energy by lowering its cost.
Tanika Mosely
Blue Sky Solar LLC
407 557-2719
www.blueskysolar.com
PR Courtesy of Online PR Media: http://bit.ly/raJSIE