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CIRO One Solar Plant Ensures Increased Energy Yields
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October 14, 2010

CIRO One Solar Plant Ensures Increased Energy Yields

By Carolyn J Dawson
TMCnet Contributor

Satcon Technology Corporation provides utility-grade power conversion solutions for the renewable energy market and its innovative energy efficient system, Solstice, will be deployed within the 63 megawatt CIRO One Solar PV Plant in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico with construction beginning in October 2010. As the industry’s first complete power-harvesting and array management solution, the CIRO One Solar PV Plant will deploy around 126 Satcon Solstice 500 KW solutions which will be applicable for large-scale commercial and utility-scale solar power plants.


The CIRO One Solar Power plant is spread across 180 acres of land and is expected to generate 116 million KW hours of energy equivalent to around 201,000 barrels of oil saved every year. Ruben Perez, president of the CIRO Group of San Juan, believes that the deployed Solar PV plant installation will prove to be the largest and most advanced in the world. Perez added that the size of the projected installation combined with uneven terrain at various elevations were the main limiting factors thus requiring the flexibility offered by Satcon Solstice system. In a press release, Perez said, “Satcon has provided us with the technologies and system-wide expertise that has helped us to make renewable energy resources a significant component of the Puerto Rican electricity grid, helping us to achieve a higher degree of energy independence and alleviating the Commonwealth’s dependence on crude oil.”

By leveraging string level power conversion and energy harvest optimization, the Solstice integrated system with a highly optimized centralized inverter leads to around five to 12 percent increment of overall energy yield while the balance of the system material costs is reduced by 20 to 25 percent compared to a centralized inverter system.

In a statement, Steve Rhoades, Satcon’s president and CEO, said, “The value of Satcon Solstice is in its ability to take very large installations, like CIRO’s, and to divide them up into less than three KW increments, which enables tailored design flexibility to address the variable geographical constraints and the challenges associated with such terrain, generating significant performance improvements through fine-grained energy harvest.” According to Steve, such unique infrastructure gives rise to a highly optimized utility-scale power plant with high reliability and higher power production factor.


Carolyn John is a Contributor to TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard


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