SAUDIS BUILD WORLD’S BIGGEST SOLAR PARKING LOT
World Largest Solar Parking Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at HQ of Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)
April 6, 2011 (World of Photovoltaics)
"The 10 Megawatts Photovoltaic Carport System is…at the recently built North Park offices of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran and will cover all of the 4,500 parking spaces.
"BELECTRIC, world market leader in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of solar power plants, [will install] the North Park Project in cooperation with Sun & Life, Regional Solar Pioneer in the Middle East, a subsidiary of Acwa Holding, Saudi Arabian Leader in developing private Power and Water generation projects infrastructure and utilities projects…"
Artist's conception of the solar car park (click to enlarge)
"…More than 120,000 CIS (Copper Indium Selenide) photovoltaic modules will be installed, supplied by the Japanese Thin Film Leader Solar Frontier (Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.). BELECTRIC was awarded the project by the Saudi Arabia based company Al Yamama, the project principal, building Saudi Aramco’s Northpark complex…"
In the finished parking lot (click to enlarge)
"BELECTRIC and Sun & Life intend to enhance their cooperation to a full scale joint venture in EPC contracting of solar power plants, and manufacturing of Balance of System components in Saudi Arabia…
"…The large-scale power plant will produce electricity and feed it in to the public grid by the end of 2011…"
2 Comments:
Am I seeing this correctly?
Seems like they've mounted the panels lower than parts of their supporting structure. Shadows early and late.
And they haven't done that good a job of shading the parking spaces.
You are right Bob, the mounting isn't correct here.. and that is not a picture of the Saudi project, which is currently under construction.
Mr Herman K. Trabish didn't illustrate this article with the right picture.
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