NRG Systems Inc. have offered solar useful resource monitoring (SRM) techniques to the Travers Solar Project in Alberta, Canada.
The turnkey techniques seize a spread of site-specific parameters, together with solar irradiance, module temperature and soiling circumstances, in addition to albedo, an important piece in figuring out the solar energy potential out there to the bottom of the plant’s bifacial solar modules. Together, the info collected by NRG’s SRMs play a important function in figuring out the challenge’s efficiency ratio.
The 465 MW Travers Solar Project – the biggest utility-scale PV plant ever put in in Canada – was developed by Calgary-based Greengate Power Corp., with PCL main building of the three,300-acre facility. Ulteig, who chosen NRG’s expertise for the plant’s useful resource monitoring wants, is overseeing SCADA engineering and integration.
“We have worked extensively with the NRG team and their solar resource measurement solutions,” says Mike Crawford, Ulteig’s senior market improvement supervisor of renewables. “Their systems offer a unique combination of flexibility and repeatability, allowing for project-specific customization within a framework that is easily replicated across a single plant or multiple plants. This has been an especially important feature for the Travers project, given the project had strict requirements and contains more than one-million PV modules across the 3,300 acres. Having reliable meteorological stations distributed across the site is critical to the project’s performance, and we can count on NRG to deliver.”
“It is exciting for NRG to be a part of the Travers Solar Project for many reasons,” provides Gregory Erdmann, NRG’s vice chairman of worldwide gross sales. “In addition to the sheer magnitude of its impression, the challenge is technically advanced, making it a problem NRG is completely suited to tackle. Thanks to a collaborative workforce effort between NRG and Ulteig, now we have been capable of ship SRM Systems satisfying a number of the most demanding necessities now we have seen.
“Successfully deploying our solutions and playing a role in providing enough electricity to power 150,000 homes and offsetting more than 472,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually is directly in line with NRG’s mission,” continues Erdmann. “We are proud that our SRM Systems will play a pivotal role in ensuring this remarkable site is achieving its peak performance potential for years to come.”
The Travers Solar Project is totally operational.
