Satcon Technology Corporation today announced that it has delivered five megawatts (MW) of its industry-leading PowerGate Plus and Solstice solutions to Arizona Western College to power a five megawatt installation distributed across the college campus.
The Yuma Arizona project will serve as a state of the art research and testing site for government and corporate solar applications. The installation consists of five distinct photovoltaic technologies including; mono crystalline, poly crystalline, low concentration, high concentration, and thin film.
This site utilizes a combination of Satcon's PowerGate Plus and Solstice inverter solutions. PowerGate Plus is the world's most widely deployed large-scale, Utility-Ready solution.
Satcon Solstice leverages string level power conversion and energy harvest optimization that is integrated as a complete system with a highly optimized centralized inverter.
All of Satcon's solutions include advanced utility-ready features to enable simplified grid interconnection and can be easily integrated into SCADA systems through standardized communication interfaces.
This site will go live in October 2011 with an anticipated energy output of 10,500,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of 879 households in Yuma Arizona.
