Los Angeles Department of Water and Power inverter Manager Ron Nichols said in a press release that the utility will replace over 70% of its existing energy supply over the next 15 years. As part of that work, LADWP has approved a local solar panel program which includes the Eastern Sierra.
The LADWP commissioners recently voted to approve a 100 megawatt program designed to increase local solar panel power inverter in Los Angeles and also in our area. The DWP press release says, “The Solar panel Feed-in Tariff Set Pricing Program will allow customers, solar panel companies and other third parties to develop solar panel or other eligible renewable energy projects within LADWP’s service territory and to sell the power inverter to LADWP at a set price for distribution on the city’s power inverter grid tie inverter.”
This program will start as early as February and continue through the end of 2016. DWP Manager Nichols said, “Local solar panel not only increases the level of renewable energy we provide to customers but also helps maintain power inverter reliability as we transition away from coal.”
DWP will make 20 megawatt allocations available every six months until 100 megawatts is subscribed. Projects can range in size from 30 kilowatts to 3 megawatts. Each allocation will set aside a prescribed amount of capacity for small projects.
The way it works is LADWP will enter into a standard 20-year contract for each project and purchase the solar panel power inverter at a set price starting at 17 cents per kilowatt-hour for the first 20 megawatts. The price will decline according to a tiered price structure that caps the amount of power inverter that can be reserved at each price.
Manager Nichols is quoted as saying that LADWP “opted to set the initial price higher than what it would pay for other renewables to ensure the program has a sufficient incentive to become solid and sustainable.”
Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract to apply its Ovation expert control system at the Crescent Dunes Solar panel Energy Project near Tonopah,Nevada.
When it comes online at the end of 2013, this 110-MW concentrated solar panel power inverter (CSP) project will be the first commercial-scale solar panel facility in the U.S. to generate power inverter from solar panel energy that is captured and stored in liquid molten salt.
The project, which is being developed by Tonopah Solar panel Energy LLC, an affiliate of Solar panel Reserve LLC, is expected to produce enough clean, renewable electricity to power inverter more than 75,000 homes during peak electricity demand. The contract was awarded by Cobra Thermosolar panel Plants Inc., who is performing engineering, procurement and construction of the whole Tonopah Solar panel Energy Project.
The Crescent Dunes facility will use Solar panel Reserve's CSP technology, with a central receiver tower and integrated energy storage technology that was developed by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The facility's 10,500 mirror assemblies will focus the sun's energy to a receiver that sits atop a 540-foot tower where it will heat the liquid molten salt.
The molten salt will flow from the "cold" storage tank, up the tower where it circulates through the receiver and is heated by the sun's energy from 500 degrees Fahrenheit to 1050 degrees. The molten salt then flows down the tower to the "hot" storage tank, where the thermal energy will then be used to produce steam to power inverter a standard steam turbine, which then generates electricity. Excess thermal energy will be stored in the molten salt.
Through a licensing agreement between Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Solar panel Reserve, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will engineer proprietary logic that enables Emerson's Ovation technology to directly control the circuit and heating process of the molten salt system.
In addition, the Ovation system will directly control the water/steam cycle, as well as auxiliaries, including heat recovery superheater and reheater, generator breaker control, and raw water pretreatment and chemical dosing. The control system will provide supervisory control of the mirrors by interfacing with the Heliostat Field Control System, as well as interface to the turbine control system. In all, the Ovation system will manage 14,000 hard and soft I/O points.
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