by Shane Henson — December 30, 2011—Companies seeking to improve their energy efficiency while promoting sustainability through investing in a solar system can now take advantage of the industry’s first complete and fully integrated solar system, offered through GreenVolts, Inc..
As GreenVolts’ leadership notes, traditional photovoltaic (PV) systems are composed of parts sourced from different suppliers, including solar panels, inverters, trackers, and monitoring. Because these parts are not designed to work specifically with one another, the overall system performance suffers. In contrast, GreenVolts provides a complete and fully integrated solar system, with installations producing 30%-40% more energy than traditional PV.
“Our complete system approach changes the entire solar experience,” said David Gudmundson, president and CEO of GreenVolts. “With GreenVolts, customers get simplicity, elegance, and precision in a utility-scale solar system that delivers higher performance and richer energy management than anything else in the world.”
The GreenVolts system has already been installed at numerous customer locations across the southwestern United States, including for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Southern California Edison, and Tucson Electric.
According to the company, key features of the GreenVolts system include:
- Increased efficiency: Advanced concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) modules are 2-3 times more efficient than those of traditional PV or thin-film modules.
- Greater energy yield: High-precision, two-axis, intelligent tracking system accurately follows the sun, allowing solar modules to operate at peak efficiency throughout the day and resulting in greater energy yield than single-axis or fixed-tilt PV.
- Integrated inverters and motion control: Bi-polar, transformerless inverters, working with the tracker motion control, continually seek the maximum power output for the system.
- Intelligent Solar Information System (ISIS): This sophisticated energy management software provides monitoring, diagnostics, reporting, and system control.
- Increased durability, decreased maintenance: Weather and solar monitoring stations at each site ensure that the system is stowed in a face-down position during harsh conditions as well as at night, to reduce soiling, dust, and condensation.
- Sophisticated solar information network: All subsystems and components are interconnected for communications, including global positioning system (GPS) and Wi-Fi for intrasite status, and Internet communication via secure virtual private network (VPN).
- Comprehensive customer care: GreenVolts provides a single point of support over the life of the project, from sales to planning and design, to installation, to operation and maintenance.
- Greater energy yield: High-precision, two-axis, intelligent tracking system accurately follows the sun, allowing solar modules to operate at peak efficiency throughout the day and resulting in greater energy yield than single-axis or fixed-tilt PV.
