COMPANYNEWS Sunny collaboration
HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY and SunPower Corporation announced an agreement for SunPower to sell solar photovoltaic (PV) power to the utility under a fixed price contract for 20 years. The power will be generated from a five-megawatt (MW) solar farm that SunPower will design, build and operate at Kalaeloa in West Oahu.
The purchase power agreement is before the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for approval. Upon PUC and other needed approvals, SunPower plans to begin construction this year and complete the solar farm within five months. It will be located on 40 acres leased from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) at Roosevelt Avenue and Boxer Road.
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“With SunPower’s high-efficiency technology, Hawaiian Electric will benefit from reliable, cost-effective, guaranteed performance,” said SunPower Business Unit President Jim Pape. “The solar farm will contribute clean, renewable solar power to Oahu while generating welcome revenues for the important work of the Hawaiian Homelands department on behalf of native Hawaiians.”
“We welcome this agreement for another solar facility for Oahu, part of our continuing effort to get as much
Greek success
ALEO SOLAR today announced that it retained its strong position and tripled the number of modules delivered in the Greek market in 2010. The German
manufacturer intends to achieve the same growth rate in Greece in the current year as well. Delivery of a total of 20 megawatts has already been assured through framework agreements. According to the Greek industry association, Helapco, just under 150 megawatts of photovoltaic output were added to the grid in 2010.
Thanasis Sakkas, Head of Sales for aleo solar in Greece and Cyprus, links the company's success to the comprehensive support it offers the customer: "We offer installers and project developers not only technical support but help with financial
from large greenfield systems to smaller rooftop systems. In this segment, aleo solar now has a market share of about 20 percent. Sakkas expects that the average size of aleo's Greek systems – presently around the 100-kilowatt rated output mark – will decrease in the future.
issues as well. The training we provide gives installers everything they need to know about setting up a photovoltaic system. Topics covered range from the approval process in Greece through to technical system layout and practical questions about the actual installation."
Since photovoltaic roof systems have enjoyed stronger state funding since mid- 2010, the market is now re-orienting itself
"Many installers in Greece lack experience in rooftop systems," says Sakkas, "and this is an area we are focusing on with our training." Norbert Schlesiger, Chief Sales Officer at aleo solar AG, adds: "The development of the Greek photovoltaic market has been a pleasant surprise and confirms the success of our internationalisation strategy. We are confident that our expertise in rooftop systems will enable us to continue the expansion of our business in Greece."
renewable energy on our island grid as possible,” said Robbie Alm, Hawaiian Electric executive vice president. “Hawaii already leads the nation in solar watts per person, much of it generated by customer-sited roof-top PV arrays. This and other large-scale projects will increase our solar leadership and help us meet our clean energy goals.”
The SunPower agreement is an outcome of Hawaiian Electric’s request for proposals for renewable energy projects for Oahu issued under the PUC’s competitive bidding framework in 2008.
SunPower will install high-efficiency SunPower solar panels, the most productive on the market today, on a SunPower Tracker system. The Tracker positions solar panels to follow the sun’s movement during the day, increasing sunlight capture by up to 25 percent over conventional fixed-tilt systems, while significantly reducing land requirements.
According to estimates provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the solar farm will produce enough renewable power to avoid almost 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, equivalent to removing 37,600 cars from Hawaii’s roads over the 20-year term of the power purchase agreement.
The price per kilowatt-hour in the fixed- price, as-available contract is comparable to a similar recently completed solar facility agreement and is lower than the proposed price for the third tier of Hawaii’s Feed-in Tariff.
On Oahu, this project joins a growing portfolio of renewable resources, including: an expanding waste-to-energy plant; a waste gasification plant in development; a new wind farm; other solar farms under development; renewable projects existing and being developed under the Feed-in Tariff and an enlarged Net Energy Metering program; as well as biofueling of new and existing power plants.
www.solar-pv-management.com Issue III 2011
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