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| Northern Power will install renewable solar power systems Northern Power has been awarded a contract by Pathmark Stores to provide three turnkey photovoltaic systems to Pathmark's Garwood, Elizabeth, and Lawnside, New Jersey, supermarkets. The turnkey systems, which will have a total capacity of 750 kilowatts, will be designed, built and commissioned by Northern Power in association with New Jersey-based BGA LLC Engineering. Northern Power will design and build three separate 250-kilowatt PV systems on the roof of each of the three Pathmark supermarkets. Each system will utilize a 20º, no-penetration roof mounting system designed to maximize overall electricity output. The contract includes a 5-year warranty on the systems, and a 25-year warranty on the PV modules. The PV Systems will also feature Northern Power's SmartView Remote Monitoring system to gather performance data, provide real-time preventative maintenance updates and track output for compliance with the NJCEP SREC trading program. The Pathmark solar energy systems are estimated to prevent a total of 858 tons of carbon dioxide and four tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide from entering the atmosphere annually. According to statistics published by the US Environmental Protection Agency, removing this amount of harmful greenhouse gases from the air is approximately the equivalent of eliminating 148 cars per year from the road, or annually planting 5,781 acres of trees. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |