GCL Solar energy places order for 22.5MW of Satcon

“Satcon’s leading power conversion solutions continue to be deployed by the most respected developers in solar, and we are very proud to have been selected by GCL Energy for this project.

“We’ve seen demand for solar PV continue to grow in the Americas over the last two years. First with commercial systems and most recently in large utility-scale power plants.” said Pete DeGraff, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Services and Marketing for Satcon. “Satcon’s leading power conversion solutions continue to be deployed by the most respected developers in solar, and we are very proud to have been selected by GCL Energy for this project.”

The Equinox 500kW is the next generation of Satcon’s flagship 500kW solar inverter solution, which has been utilized by the industry’s leading solar developers on over a gigawatt of cumulative PV power systems.

With 98.5 percent peak efficiency and the industry’s widest thermal operating range, Equinox solutions improve system-wide energy harvest and solar plant yield for best-in-class performance, enabling the large-scale solar industry’s lowest Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). The efficiency gains, compared to other similar solutions, will enable utility-scale plants to produce millions more kilowatt hours over the life of the system, and add millions of dollars to the bottom line of the plant owner operators.

Satcon Technology Corporation® is the leading provider of utility-scale power conversion solutions for the renewable energy market, enabling the industry’s most advanced reliable and proven clean energy alternatives. For over 27 years, Satcon has designed and delivered the next generation of efficient energy systems for solar photovoltaic, stationary fuel cells, and energy storage systems. 

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited is the world’s leading polysilicon and wafer supplier as well as a top green energy enterprise in China. The product quality of the Group’s polysilicon has reached electronic grade level since 2010, and the Group will ramp up the annual production capacity to 65,000 MT by mid-2012 or before. The Group’s wafer production capacity achieved 6.5 GW at the end of July 2011. Moreover, for the solar system integration business, the Group is devoting itself to providing solar farm investors with a one-stop solar system solution: from project development, engineering, procurement, construction, financing to operation and management.

www.gcl-poly.com.hk

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