Ciel & Terre (Lille, France) and
D3 Energy LLC (Houston, TX, U.S.) in February 2017 celebrated the
completion of their first full-fledged U.S. project in partnership with
the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC).
The inauguration ceremony announces the largest floating solar photovoltaic system in Florida to date.
Unlike other states, Florida has an annual average
of 230 days of sunshine inherently dubbing it as The Sunshine State.
With all that sunlight, the only thing missing was a more efficient
alternative means to harness and reuse this powerful source of energy,
the partners note.
100 floating PV panels will generate up to 51,000 kWh of solar power per year
Florida is a prime location within the U.S. to
install Ciel & Terre’s patented large-scale floating PV technology
known as “Hydrelio”.
The Hydrelio floating array is composed of
100 crystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels and will generate up to
51,000 kWh of solar power per year.
Like Ciel & Terre’s other projects, Hydrelio
will allow standard solar PV panels to be installed on man-made bodies
of water such as industrial reservoirs, storm water retention areas,
dams or irrigation ponds.
In this case, Hydrelio was installed on a storm water storage reservoir located at OUC’s Gardenia facility.
OUC was the first utility in Central Florida to
build a large solar farm and was one of the first in the nation to offer
community solar where its customers can buy a piece of an array on the
same Gardenia campus. The electricity produced with Hydrelio will serve
some of OUC’s own electrical usage on-site, or put back up into the
grid.
Project to be used to promote more floating PV systems
As the first floating array of its size in Florida,
OUC will use this project as a benchmark in order to promote more
efficient ways to deploy floating PV systems designed by Ciel &
Terre at other reservoirs throughout OUC’s service area.
A nearly 13 megawatt solar array is under
construction now at OUC’s Stanton Energy Center where OUC also utilizes
methane gas from the Orange County landfill to offset coal.
With more than 60 MWp of solar PV power production
currently utilizing the Hydrelio system, Ciel & Terre will expand to
130 MWp of floating solar by the end of 2017, the company announcessource: http://www.solarserver.com
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