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Nations Largest Installation of Solar “Meca” Trackers 51% Complete: Premier Power
Premier Power announced today it has completed 51% of the massive “Meca Trackers” project being installed on the West County Wastewater District in Richmond, California. The project is expected to be operational by Jan 15th 2008. The Richmond water district installation is comprised of 90 of the nation’s largest bi-directional solar tracking arrays. Each of the 90 solar arrays designed and engineered by Premier Power stands over three and a half stories tall (forty five feet tall by forty five feet wide) and each continuously tracks the sun for maximum efficiency. Each tracker and panel array sit on platforms made with over forty four thousand pounds of concrete specifically designed to distribute the weight for application in wetlands.
Much of the Richmond water district land is highly corrosive and contaminated and can not be disturbed during installation. Premier’s proprietary engineering solution allowed an above ground installation that does not disturb the property and turns unusable land into energy producing property.
Dean Marks, President of Premier Power said: “What a way to kick off the New Year – with clean energy coming from previously unusable contaminated land! This is an outstanding milestone for Premier Power and Solar Energy in general. We are pleased to be on track to complete an installation other Solar companies could not achieve. These are the largest bidirectional trackers in the nation and the idea that they convert previously unusable land into energy producing property is outstanding.”
Two other companies had begun work on the ambitious project but could not overcome the engineering issues.
Miguel de Anquin - said “This is an example of how Premier Power benefits from its international operations. Meca trackers are made by ET Solar and were first discovered by our Spanish operations and became a perfect solution for an otherwise very challenging job. We must give credit to our outstanding engineering and project teams as well as our international subsidiary.”
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