The PV system on Rio Tinto Stadium is comprised of nearly 6,500 modules, most being installed on new solar-covered parking structures around the stadium. Rio Tinto Stadium now boasts the 4th largest solar array of any professional sports stadium in North America. The system is equivalent to removing 450 cars from the road or planting 47,278 trees annually.
We have distributed Solectria products to the PV industry since 2010 and have always found them to be the most reliable and bankable products available, said Jay Miles, VP of Distributed Sales at Russell Pacific. Solectrias transformerless residential and commercial inverters have proven to be the safest and most dependable in the marketplace today.
Its exciting to see Solectria inverters in large stadium and convention center installations, such as this and others including AT&T Park, the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Minneapolis Convention Center, to name a few, said Mark Goodreau, Director of sales at Yaskawa Solectria Solar. Russell Pacific has been a valuable partner of ours and we are proud to be chosen by them for high profile systems such as the Rio Tinto Stadium.
The ribbon cutting for this PV system will be today, October 8th, at 11am. Company representatives from Russell Pacific, the installers, Auric Solar, Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, and Salt Lake City Mayor, Ralph Becker, are expected to be in attendance.
