SOLON Corporation introduces Breakthrough Modular Solar System for Utilities
SOLON Corporation, the largest crystalline silicon solar manufacturer in the U.S. and a fully owned subsidiary of SOLON SE, today unveiled the SOLON Velocity MWTM Solar System to provide electric utilities a faster, more cost effective way to integrate reliable solar power into clean energy programs. The SOLON Velocity MW Solar System is a first of its kind, providing preconfigured, one megawatt modular solar fields, which can quickly scale to capacity in as fast as four months.
Emerging polices such as renewable portfolio standards and renewable energy credits are driving utility companies to pursue solar projects for clean energy generation. The SOLON Velocity MW System was engineered with utilities in mind, providing a streamlined concept that eliminates most of the time, cost and performance risks currently associated with integrating solar. SOLON created the Velocity MW System by leveraging its experience designing and implementing turnkey solutions to U.S. utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) to help them improve peak load demand and meet their renewable energy goals.
The Velocity MW Solar System is packaged in compact, one megawatt clusters that are standardized to reduce the number of system components with a proportional reduction in field installation labor. The Velocity MW preconfigured designs help accelerate plant permitting and site development, which can stall a project for months or even years. As the first turnkey solar plant designed to truly optimize system technologies, the Velocity MW System also offers a centralized, collocated power conversion for the inverter and step up transformer, which enables significantly faster field assembly and higher performance than competitive solutions.
Globally recognized for the quality and reliability of its module and component technology, SOLON continues to underscore its reputation by including its new 375 watt panel in the Velocity MW System. SOLON's 375 watt panel is the largest monocrystalline module on the market, cutting down on the total number of modules needed in the field, improving energy yields up to 25 percent and providing low levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for utility-scale systems. As with all of SOLON's photovoltaic technology, the new modules are being manufactured in the U.S., at the company's plant in Tucson, Ariz.
"As we developed the SOLON Velocity MW System, we thought a lot about the ways in which design and engineering can benefit utility scale solar installation," said Olaf Koester, president and CEO at SOLON Corporation. "Utilities currently face risks when it comes to rolling out solar - the risk of getting it running in a timely manner, the risk of it underperforming or the risk of the associated costs becoming too large to bear. We address these risks head on with our Velocity MW System, delivering a breakthrough design to fast, reliable solar energy."
About SOLON Corporation
SOLON Corporation, a subsidiary of SOLON SE and part of SOLON Group, was founded in 2007 as part of SOLON's initiative to develop the North American market. The subsidiary has built its own production facilities in Tucson, Arizona with a capacity of over 100MWp, where it manufactures UL-certified solar modules for the N.A. market. The SOLON Group's core business is the manufacture of solar modules in various performance categories and the construction of turnkey solar power plants. The SOLON Group employs 900 people worldwide and has subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, Italy, the U.S. and Switzerland.
Source: SOLON
