Renewable Energy
Hybrid schemes feature in solar investments
Among many new investments in solar technology are a number of hybrid schemes – including combined cycle gas plants and wind farms.
Entre las numerosas nuevas inversiones en tecnología solar destacan distintos sistemas híbridos, entre ellos, plantas de gas y granjas eólicas de ciclo combinado.
Unter vielen neuen Investitionen in die Solar-Technologie befindet sich eine Anzahl von hybriden Systemen einschließlich GuD-Kraftwerke und Windfarmen.
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Fig. 1. Canada’s first operational solar energy park was inaugurated in 2009.
Picture courtesy: SunEdison.
lorida Power & Light has inaugurated the world’s first hybrid solar power plant. Known as the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Centre, it spans 500 acres in western Martin
County, Florida, and connects a field of more than 190 000 solar thermal mirrors with an existing combined-cycle natural gas power plant. Innovative technology enables the mirrors to track the sun over the course of a day to harness free fuel from the sun’s rays to create electricity and directly offset the use of fossil fuels. Te 75MW centre is designed to harness
free fuel from the sun’s rays to power about 11 000 homes. Tis technology is expected to reduce fossil fuel consumption by approximately 41 billion ft3
of natural gas and more than
600 000 barrels of oil. Tis in turn would prevent the release of more than 2.75 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and save FPL customers about US$178m (€127 m) in fuel costs over the facility’s estimated 30-year lifetime.
In Canada, SunEdison, has been awarded 31MW of solar photovoltaic projects by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) as part of the province’s feed-in tariff programme. Tis recent announcement adds to the 28MW of ground-mount and rooftop solar projects already deployed by SunEdison in Ontario.
Clean energy
Located in communities across the province including Mississauga, Whitby, Drummond, Rideau Lakes and Ingleside, the projects will generate over 47 million kWh of clean energy in the first year of operation and produce over 873 million kWh over 20 years. Tat is enough energy to power more than 76 000 average Canadian homes for one year. SunEdison was awarded two 10MW projects in Rideau Lakes, one 10MW project in South Stormont, one 500kW project in Mississauga, and one 500kW project in Whitby. In 2009, together with SkyPower Activate
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