Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy’s SPAWAR

by | Feb 10, 2012

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The $1.5 billion, 367 MW Walney Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind project, opened in the Irish Sea nine miles off the shore of the U.K. Denmark-based Dong Energy installed 51 3.6-megawatt turbines and linked them to the grid last year, and completed the second stage installation of 51 more turbines in the past six months.  The wind farm is the starting point of the U.K.’s $52-billion effort to expand sea-based generation. Britain has more than 1,500 MW of offshore wind, and plans to boost capacity to 18,000 megawatts by 2020 to meet energy demand, EU renewables goals and cut emissions 34 percent from 1990, Bloomberg reports.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) headquarters complex in San Diego has installed 1.3 MW of solar panels from SolarWorld. The system, designed and constructed by Stronghold Engineering, is the Navy’s largest contiguous rooftop solar array, SolarWorld said. The solar installation has 5,376 high-performance solar panels and it will feed power into the San Diego grid.

New Jersey American Water is installing solar arrays at two water filtration facilities – the Delaware River Regional Water Treatment Plant in Delran (DRRWTP), and the Mansfield, N.J., well station. DRRWTP is a $7.7 million, 3,565-panel solar field expected to produce about 1.2 million kWh per year while in Mansfield the $7.1 million project will have 3,290 solar panels and produce one-million kWh of power per year. ENERActive Solutions will install both projects by June 2012.

Grape cultivator Giumarra Vineyards in Bakersfield, Calif., has a new 516 kW PV system to supply electricity for main production and cold storage facility. HelioPower provided design, engineering, construction, and utility commissioning for the ground mounted agricultural solar installation, and the system uses 2,296 Canadian Solar 225P PV modules, Canadian Solar said.

The Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C., plans a 500 kW rooftop solar array. Scheduled for completion in April 2012, the rooftop solar array of approximately 2,080 modules, covering 50 percent of the rooftop, making the facility the second-largest convention center PV installation in the U.S. PV cell and solar module manufacturer Suniva is partnered with PowerWorks and FLS Energy for the job.

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