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| Solar installation at Redwood Valley County Water District Kyocera Solar, Inc. announced that Advance: Solar, Hydro, Wind Power Company, one of its authorized distributors in Northern California, has successfully completed a 99.2 Kilowatt (kW) STC commercial solar installation at Redwood Valley County Water District. With the drinking water industry in need of more renewable energy resources to conserve water, Redwood Valley Water District General Manager Bill Koehler thought that solar was the most logical route to go. "It was definitely worth the two years of effort and planning to finally have the system up and running," added Koehler. The complete system consists of 496 Kyocera KC-200GT solar modules in addition to one Solectaria 100 kW inverter. The system's mounting structure includes Professional Solar Products Ground track. Throughout its lifetime, the system is expected to generate power production of 30,550 kWh per year and 100% of the system's energy production will be used on site, according Pete Gregson, owner of Advance: Solar, Hydro Wind Power Co, Inc. "Not only is Redwood Valley County Water District conserving environmental resources through the use of solar, they also reaped financial incentives through the California CSI program monitored by PG&E with the balance of the funding provided by Solar Power Partners under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The water district had no out of pocket expenses for this system," added Gregson. In addition to the rebate, Redwood Valley County Water District will receive a utility rate savings of close to 20%, with no cost to the water district. "More importantly, we are very pleased with the system's performance. System monitoring, provided by Energy Recommerce, shows that the system is performing better than expected, added Koehler. It would be great to see Advance Power and Kyocera work together in the future to provide systems for other water districts across all of California and even the rest of the US." "In the meantime, we will do the best on our part to promote the use of water conservation through the use of solar energy, " he added. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |