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There’s all different types of solar energy out there today. One is solar voltaic systems which are the semiconductor materials to convert light energy to electricity. Another type is thermal energy where you actually use mirrors to collect the sun’s energy. They use a lot of different fluids. Some of these systems use a kind of mirror. I focus alone on a tube filled with either molten salt or some type of other media that you can superheat a lot of times. That’s put in underground so it shall help to retain them so you can still use it in the evening hours when the sun’s not directly out. You can use it to run a boiler and a steam turbine and produce electricity. We’ve estimated projects where they’ve used this type of thermal storage along with a mass boiler.
We will talk about the lithium-ion battery storage because that’s becoming more and more prevalent. It takes a smaller footprint so I think you’re going to see a lot more of it. Aside from the normal site civil work, it takes a fairly flat installation although paving terraces come in all shapes and sizes. There’s a lot of steel driven in the ground posts and supporting steel. It definitely needs to be grounded in addition to that, whether it’s on the rooftop or it’s ground, you’ll need generally some form of lightning protection.
The grounding systems are the same regardless of what you’re putting it in. There’s a lot of steel driven in the ground posts and supporting steel. It definitely needs to be grounded in addition to that whether it’s on the rooftop or it’s ground mounted. You’ll need generally some form of lightning protection especially on a roof top. Post and ranking systems vary. There are several different types of these systems. There are balanced systems that sit right on the roof or on the ground. Some solar systems require concrete foundations. The posts and supports of the solar mounting system are typically modular. Someone preassembled them or they come and unfold in the mount to the post.
Some solar installations have tracking systems that rotate with the sun. Solar panels are made of semiconductor materials. Some are ridged and some are flexible. Tesla just announced that its got one that looks like a roof shingle. The solar panels can even be mounted on a commercial vehicle like a food truck. The solar panels range in size and wattage output. The size of the solar panel is about 2′ by 5′ in size. It looks like a piece of glass material like crystalline glass. There are thin solar films that get installed on standing seam metal building roofs. Inverters are the devices that take the DC power that you have collected with the solar panel and convert it to AC power. Solar array is a term referring to a group of solar panels arrangement to operate as a single unit. A solar string is a group of solar arrays put together that are connected in series or in parallel.
A solar collection system is after the solar inverter. The power coming from the solar system is very clean and ready to use. I split the estimate into categories such as site civil, grading, grounding, fencing, post and racking system, solar panel installation, the inverter installation, DC cable installation, AC cable installation, major electrical installation, and medium voltage connections.
Post time: Jun-27-2017