US National Archives & Records Administration Facility,
Waltham, MA. Photo courtesy of Sika Sarnafil Roofing Systems, Inc.
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TOO FAR NORTH FOR FLAT SOLAR [1]
Submitted by Jeff Buster [2] on April 27, 2007 - 12:50pm.
Norm, notice all the warehouse roof photos are in SoCal. Several reasons for that: 1.
Calif offers state economic incentives to offset more than 1/2 the cost of the installation. 2. lots of sun. 3. Lower latitude allows effective and cheaper flat placement of panels.
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May 08, 2007 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SatCon Photovoltaic Inverters Installed at U.S. Government Facility
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SatCon Technology Corporation® (Nasdaq CM: SATC), a developer of power management and system architecture solutions for the alternative energy and distributed power markets today announced that its PowerGate® commercial grade inverters have been installed as an integral part of a 375 kW building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system at the Murphy National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) facility in Waltham, Massachusetts. The
NARA facility demonstrates a completely integrated roof and solar system—the solar panels are the roof. The flexible, flat panel photovoltaic array is heat-welded into the roofing material and qualifies as a "Cool Roof" under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EnergyStar program.
Solar Integrated Technologies, Inc. provided the building’s 143,000 square feet of integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing system. SatCon’s PowerGate® high-efficiency inverters are a critical component of the system, converting the sun’s energy produced by the photovoltaic panels into alternating current electricity that is used to power the facility. To date, SatCon has shipped more the 30 MW of its industry leading commercial grade inverters in
North America.
"SatCon is pleased to have been selected to supply the inverters for this PV installation at this
US government facility ”, said Clemens van Zeyl, President, SatCon Power Systems. "Our PowerGate® Inverter series, ranging from 30 kW to 500 kW, continues to gain acceptance as the power conditioning system of choice driven by market leading efficiencies, simplicity of design and ease of installation " added van Zeyl.
“As we provide and install BIPV roofing solutions for our
U.S. customers, it is essential that we source inverters that reflect our ‘no compromise’ approach”, stated R. Randall MacEwen, President & CEO of Solar Integrated. “We continue to be attracted to SatCon’s PowerGate® inverter and their partnership approach to business.”...
Photo source here [3]!
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An article from their local paper:
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/homepage/x405554182 [4]
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Norm - I don't know that we have anyone who would install this sort of system here in the Cleveland area, and you might note that these tend to be very large buildings, much larger than the Star/Hough Bakery facility.
Sorry to be a while in responding to this, I had some personal business that demanded my attention....
Bill
Links:
[1] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/blog/bill-macdermott/just-a-nice-perspective-on-solar-power#comment-3048
[2] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/user/jeff-buster-0
[3] http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?epi-content=IMAGE_VIEW&newsId=20070508005253&newsLang=en&contentItemId=1599481&moduleId=478837757&ndmConfigId=1000020
[4] http://www.dailynewstribune.com/homepage/x405554182