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Satcon Headquartered in Boston, which provides power conversion solutions and system design of utility scale renewable energy projects, announced which was recently installed four 250 kW Satcon investors in Orange County, Fla., Convention Center, which is the largest rooftop solar installation in the southeast.
The convention center, located in Orlando, has 200,000 square meters of monocrystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels that will deliver 1.1 megawatts clean solar energy, or enough to power more than 100 homes for one year.
Designed and built by Johnson Controls Inc., a leading provider products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security, the solar panel will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 1 million pounds per year, which is the equivalent of removing 100 cars from U.S. roads.
Investors, patented Satcon PowerGate ® Plus, converting direct current (DC) of the solar array into alternating current (AC) for use in the convention center. Investors are an essential aspect of the production alternative energy, allowing the DC to AC conversion, which is how companies can deliver services in the United States. Thus, U.S. companies and households are electrically configured to accept only AC power, with the conversion of DC modules integrated into elements such as computers and answering Telephone.
The solar panel, with its investors Satcon is expected to reduce significantly the amount of electricity the convention center currently receives from local utility Progress Energy. Progress, which receives more than one third of its energy from nuclear power (a resource that is pushing for inclusion Waxman-Markey in renewable energy standard, or IC), has only about 25 kilowatt hours of solar energy in their mix.
A Climate Change Education Center within the Convention Center Orange County will show visitors and students of the solar energy produced in a given time as well as information on carbon emission reductions and efficiency of the system – a number sure to be better for Satcon's world-class investors who have proven their reliability in thousands of hours of commercial use. The education center also details the effects of global warming due to burning fossil fuels.
The solar panel, a cooperative venture between Johnson Controls, Satcom and the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) was put into service on May 14 with different political figures in Florida for assistance, and representatives of the OUC, the Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy of Florida and Orange County Environmental Protection Agency.
The Orange County Convention Center is the convention center, second largest in the country, bringing about 1.4 million visitors to Orlando to attend more than 250 events planned, so the addition of a solar panel and kiosk climate change can only benefit from solar energy by introducing their enormous rewards in terms of clean, renewable energy (and, soon, competitive affordable) energy.
