Infinia has begun commissioning the first concentrating solar power (CSP) systems in a 1.5 MW project at a US Army facility in the state of Utah.
Infinia has begun commissioning the first concentrating solar power (CSP) systems in a 1.5 MW project at a US Army facility in the state of Utah.
The CSP plant comprises 429 Infinia PowerDish systems, based on dish Stirling CSP technology, installed at the Tooele Army Depot. The company will display this technology at the Intersolar Europe trade show in Munich, June 19th-21st, 2013.
“We are excited to mark this milestone in providing the Tooele Army Depot with a long-term, dependable clean energy solution,” said Infinia President and CEO Mike Ward.
“Given their need for secure energy, high performance and reliability, our PowerDish is ideally suited to help them optimize their sustainable energy goals and provide them with 30% of their electricity requirements.”
Infinia to deploy an additional 125 MW of CSP in Europe.Infinia Corporation notes that it is currently involved in two NER300 projects awarded by the European Commission, which will result in the deployment of a total of 125 MW of its systems in Cyprus and Greece.
Dish Stirling CSP systems are based on parabolic concentrators and Stirling engines. One of the four main types of CSP technology, they have not yet been deployed at the scale that parabolic trough and solar power tower systems have.
The Cyprus/Helios project includes a 50 MWe transmission-scale PowerDish deployment near the city of Larnaca where each of the 16,920 dishes will supply electricity to the national grid. The Greece/MAXIMUS project in the Florina region will have a total installed capacity of 75.3 MWe. The plant includes 25,160 PowerDish units composing 37 distribution-scale power plants, each connected to the grid via a single connection point.
Infinia Corporation is an energy technology company developing and manufacturing high-efficiency, free-piston Stirling generators that convert readily available and low cost heat sources such as solar, biogas and natural gas into reliable on- or off-grid electricity. The company’s PowerDish is the world’s first Stirling-basedsolar power generation system suitable for automotive-scale manufacturing and deployment from small distribution-scale arrays to multi-megawatt, utility-scale solar power plants. For more information on Infinia Corp., its Stirling platform, PowerDish solar and solar hybrid products or fuel-fired generator power systems, please visit www.infiniacorp.com.