Satcon Technology Corporation, a provider of utility-scale power conversion solutions for the renewable energy market, has been selected for landmark 5 megawatt project by Arizona Western College.

Officials with Satcon Technology said that in this direction the company has delivered five megawatts (MW) of its PowerGate Plus and Solstice solutions to Arizona Western College to power a five megawatt installation distributed across the college campus.

PowerGate Plus is the world's most widely deployed large-scale, Utility-Ready solution. Satcon Solstice leverages string level power conversion and energy harvest optimization that is integrated as a complete system with a highly optimized centralized inverter.

The Yuma Arizona project will serve as a state of the art research and testing site for government and corporate solar applications.

According to company officials, the installation consists of five distinct photovoltaic technologies including; mono crystalline, poly crystalline, low concentration, high concentration, and thin film.

Company officials said that this site utilizes a combination of Satcon's PowerGate Plus and Solstice inverter solutions.

All of Satcon's solutions include advanced utility-ready features to enable simplified grid interconnection and can be easily integrated into SCADA systems through standardized communication interfaces.

This site will go live in October 2011 with an anticipated energy output of 10,500,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of 879 households in Yuma Arizona.

In August, Satcon Technology Corporation had announced that it has been selected by Quanta Renewable Energy Services and Ryan Company to deliver 10 of its 1 megawatt (MW) Prism Platform Solutions for the 10 MW (AC) New Jersey Oak Solar PV Power Plant in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.

When completed later this year, the New Jersey Oak Solar project will be the largest non-utility owned solar project east of the Mississippi.