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WisconSUN Case Study:
Sun Power Electric PV Station
Owner: Sun Power Electric
Location: BJ's Wholesale Club, Conshohocken PA
Description: Rooftop retrofit
Size: Size: 48 kW using 1,400 Solarex modules
Cost: Approximately $250,000 (or $5,200/kW)
Installed: April 1999
Sun Powered Electric (SPE) is a nonprofit PV independent power producer. SPE has developed a strategy and prototype PV plant that can be repeated across the US as green-power markets open. By the fall of 1999 SPE had installed four similar power plants.
An inexpensive mounting system allows the systems to be quickly installed and removed from commercial rooftops. The light-weight mounting system allows installation on large flat-roofed buildings without expensive structural augmentation of the roof supports.
Project Funding
- The system's output is sold at green-power rates to Green Mountain Energy.
- Virginia Alliance for Solar Electricity (VASE) provided co-funding.
- BJ's Wholesale Club provides the site free of charge.
- Private citizens to make donations to Solar Electric Power.
Project Partners
- SPE is a nonprofit division of Conservation Services Group of Westborough.
- BJ's Wholesale Club is a membership-based retail chain.
- Green Mountain Energy is the leading marketer of green power in the US.
- VASE is a mid-Atlantic alliance whose goal is to promote Solarex's Millennia™ modules. The VASE partnership was awarded U.S Department of Energy funding.
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Sun Power Electric
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