2016 solar buyers guide Applied Light Spectrum
Vis Solis, Inc.
Greenwood Energy Greenwood Energy combines top-tier developers, financial professionals, and operational experts to create clean energy investment opportunities. They are currently focused on state-of-the-art energy solutions in solar and energy storage markets. Greenwood Energy’s portfolio and expertise includes active investments in shovel-ready renewable energy projects, as well as taking on early stage developments meeting their selective investment criteria. Greenwood Energy has 400MW of experience in solar energy, with over 1GW of solar opportunities currently under development internationally.
Solar Frontier Americas Development, LLC Solar Frontier Americas Development LLC, a subsidiary of Solar Frontier, develops and sells utility-scale photovoltaic plants in the United States and Latin America. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the development team partners with leading solar system component suppliers, EPCs, and other developers to deliver optimized, high-yield solar plants that help meet the clean energy needs of today.
Weather Stations
Soltage offers solutions in the development, financing, and operation of solar power generation stations; providing electricity to commercial, industrial, educational, utility, and municipal customers across the United States under long-term contracts. Soltage has developed 35 solar energy projects with 85 megawatts total distributed generating capacity under management across eight states. Soltage is backed by a group of investors including leading independent power producer Tenaska and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. www.soltage.com
EYE IWASAKI / Applied Optix
EYE Applied Optics / Iwasaki Electric develops light-applied system solutions. From full spectrum solar simulation, to unique UV durability test chambers, their goal is to employ light technology to create a more sustainable environment. Their light applied solutions provide uniformity, performance, and energy efficiency. www.eyesolarlux.com
Equipment Manufacturer
GRT Utilicorp, Inc.
Lufft USA Inc. Soltage, LLC
LTi ReEnergy provides central inverter stations for utility-scale PV power plants. The Turn Key Stations are available as 1.4MW, 1.75MW, 2.1MW, and 2.45MW units. The intelligent multi-master architecture of the inverters maximize availability energy production. The Turn Key Station reduces the transportation and installation cost. Engineered in Germany, they are madden the USA and certified to UL 1741.
www.vis-solis.com
www.solar-frontier.com
www.gwenergy.com
LTi ReEnergy
Vis Solis develops, finances, installs, and operates Utility Scale and Commercial Scale PV-Solar projects in the United States and the Philippines. They provide consultancy and advisory services in due diligence, project development, merger and acquisition, engineering, procurement, structuring, and financing.
Lufft offers a unique series of weather products to meet the meteorological monitoring requirements for utility and commercial-scale PV projects. The WS Family of weather stations offers the WS501, WS502, WS503, WS510, and WS504 with solar radiation, as well as the WS601/WS600 with an added rainfall option. Rainfall measurements can help to gauge variance in performance due to panel soiling. The flexibility of each station allows for ease of integration and possible measurement of wind speed, wind direction, plane of array solar radiation, temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, and back of panel temperature. Turnkey or sensor-only packages are available from Lufft or a Lufft partner. www.lufftsolar.com
Other Aerial Imagery & Measurements
GRT Utilicorp manufactures post driving and pressure digging machines. They also provide sales of new and used machines, pneumatic rock drills, augers, driving equipment for smaller jobs, repair and replacement parts, and truck and track mounted machines for highway median, or solar panel post driving. www.grtutilicorp.com
Machine Vision
FSI Technologies, Inc.
FSI Machine Vision provides a full range of automatic inspection systems and components, engineering, and training for demanding industrial environments and applications. They are partnered with NeuroCheck vision software, Eye Vision Software, Automation Technology 3D sensors, and are a ViDi Preferred Solution Provider. Their Assured Path to Success program has a 100% success rate on even the toughest machine vision applications. www.fsinet.com
Microgrid Control Systems
www.reenergy.lt-i.com
TMEIC Planetary Defense, Inc. Planetary Defense provides site analysis, met tower construction, parabolic concentrator desalinization, turnkey photovoltaic substation design, and implementation. www.planetary-defense.com
TMEIC’s Solar Ware Samurai Series of photovoltaic inverters is the first heat pipe aircooled PV inverter. The Samurai is available in three power classes, 2500 kW – 2700 kVA (1500 V), 2300 kW – 2500 kVA (1500 V), and 1833 kW – 2000 kVA (1000 V). TMEIC’s Solar Ware Main Site Control provides overall coordination and control of utility-scale PV plants, providing access to complete information about an entire plant’s power production. www.tmeic.com
EagleView Technologies EagleView Technologies offers Pictometry Intelligent Images and analytical tools for accurate precontract assessment. The high-resolution images provide top-down, as well as north, south, east, and west views, to easily identify shading and roof obstructions. With image libraries covering the United States and Canada, neighborhoods in any geographical area can be evaluated right from the desktop. After the sale, EagleView Solar Roof Reports use patented, 3D technology to deliver detailed measurements, including orientation, tilt, and total square footage. They also provide CAD files that can be imported into existing workflows for precise solar design and installation. www.eagleview.com
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Sustainable Power Systems, Inc.
Sustainable Power Systems’ Universal Microgrid Controller (UMC) is a drop-in control cabinet designed to reduce the cost and complexity of microgrid deployment. It is engineered to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of microgrid configurations, gridtied or off-grid, eliminating the need for solar project developers to do controls integration and custom programming. In their new Simulation Mode, the UMC monitors and controls a virtual version of a proposed microgrid, allowing customers to experience the microgrid controller in action, before making a purchase decision. www.sustainablepowersystems.com