Extreme Cost Reductions with Multi-Megawatt Centralized Inverter Systems Award Number: DE-EE0005343 CX(s) Applied: A9, B5.16 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 02/26/2014 Location(s): PA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Extreme Cost Reductions with Multi-Megawatt Centralized Inverter Systems
Award Number: DE-EE0005343
CX(s) Applied: A9, B5.16
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date: 02/26/2014
Location(s): PA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Alencon Acquisitions Co. (Alencon) to complete system testing and certifyication, system integration, field validation testing, production design and customer engagement for a new type of transformational utility scale photovoltaic (PV) system.
Business and administrative operations as well as research and development activities would take place at Alencon Office and Lab, located at 330 S. Warminster Rd., Suite 380, Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Alencon completed an environmental questionnaire addressing the protocols for laboratory and facility safety, risk management and waste disposal. Product marketing, customer engagement and customer demonstrations would occur under this award. Customers would be invited to live demonstrations of the inverter system and customer input would be solicited. For field validation testing, a 25 kW and 400 kW solar PV system would be installed on the roof of the Alencon Office Building, located at 330 S. Warminster Rd., Suite 380, Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The building is approximately 70 feet tall and the roof is approximately 500,000 square feet. Both systems would sit at a height of around 1.5 feet above the roof on the North side. The 25 kW system would not be grid connected. The 400 kW system would be grid connected and require a local interconnection agreement. The 400 kW system would be comprised of 1,400 300 watt multi-crystalline PV modules covering around 40,000 square feet of roof space. Both systems would not be visible from the ground and no historic properties are in the immediate vicinity.