South Table Mountain PV Central Array Testing Site; NREL Tracking No. 15-011 Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308 CX(s) Applied: DOE/EA-1968 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Date: 04/29/15 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office
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South Table Mountain PV Central Array Testing Site; NREL Tracking No. 15-011
Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
CX(s) Applied: DOE/EA-1968
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: 04/29/2015
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes the installation of an outdoor photovoltaic (PV) test area at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) South Table Mountain (STM) campus located in Golden, Colorado.
The proposed project would include the creation of a 100-foot by 300-ft outdoor PV test area called the Central Array Test Site in the area located between Denver West Parkway and Urban Street in Site Development Zone 6 – Camp George West Parcel. The test area would be supported by a 12-foot wide gravel access road from Urban Street and with 12-foot wide gravel roads providing access to individual test plots as shown in the figure uploaded to the PMC. Research partners would install PV test array framing and test articles with helical anchors. Electrical and data connections would be made by trenching underground conduits to existing site infrastructure located 150 feet to 300 feet south of the proposed project site. A fence would be erected around the site to keep non-research personnel out of the test area. The proposed test area would be temporary and would be in place for a period of up to ten years. Upon conclusion of the outdoor PV testing at this site, the site would be reclaimed.