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Hawaii solar energy Farm eliminates the need for 2,000 barrels of oil
The technology was initiated in these tropical islands, and now has come home to sleep, but in a nice way.
Turning 10 December, the Big Island will power a 4-acre solar park based on technology Sopogy, which marked a turning as Keahole solar power LLC to develop the project.
Located in Honolulu, Sopogy than 500 kilowatts of solar cell concentration, which is more efficient photovoltaic solar systems, will provide enough electricity to the grid of the Big Island to serve 250 homes, according to estimates by the state agency energy.
This amount will help avoid that 808 metric tons of carbon dioxide from oil burning power plants (for which Hawaii is justly infamous), which is the same as the preservation of almost 8 hectares of forest, planting 20,176 trees or removing 154 cars off the road. In 2007, the generation mix of Hawaii was at 68.4 percent on oil, coal and 12.5 percent, with only 4.5 percent released from renewable energy resources solar, wind, geothermal and biomass.
Sopogy 4-acre solar park, consisting of 1,000 collectors about 12 feet long and five meters wide, also eliminate the need to buy 2,000 barrels of oil, a development that the state energy manager Ted Peck called "exciting".
The technology itself is based on channels or half barrel shaped solar collectors that capture, reflect and concentrate the sun's energy into a central collection bar. The liquid system can head up to 400 degrees (Fahrenheit), and heat the liquid that is used to produce steam to run a turbine.
The matrix is placed next Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii (south of Kona International Airport), but a proposed 44.572-square-foot pilot in July, built by Sopogy and Dynamics Helio (a manufacturer of solar energy concentration) under the auspices of the Southern California Gas (a division of Sempra Energy), showed the technology Sopogy compared viable and solar concentration through increased concentration of the parent as Andasol 1 as the "size of PCs in the concentration of solar power generation "(as opposed to mainframes).
Collector Sopogy, as originally designed and intended to SopoFlare ™ market commercial / industrial rooftop as a substitute for heating solar thermal (solar hot water) or photovoltaic technologies, was developed in conjunction with an integrated roof rack mounting system.
Sopogy All offers are based on its MicroCSP ™ technology, which can be used instead of, or hybrid power generation cooling system (or AC), systems, devices, heat recovery process, and even desalination.
Originally founded in 2002 by the Hawaii-based energy energy industries (product development) as an incubator energy concepts in the Instead of Energy Laboratories, Sopogy has become an innovator, offering a product that costs less to manufacture photovoltaic solar energy, with approximately double the efficiency. And while not as efficient as the utility-scale collections of solar thermal systems are less expensive, provides storage energy at night and on cloudy days, and offers hope that someday the technology will be available on the roof residential unit size.
Sopogy is looking ahead to a 50-megawatt project in Spain, and its sister institution, Keahole, is hoping to develop 30 megawatts of solar thermal concentrating throughout the islands over the next six years.
Solar PV Hawaii–Estrella PV Install (AEI)
