(MENAFN- VMR News) Enernet Global, a renewables developer, made it official that it intends to use Alion Energy's low-risk solar tracking technology for its Wales Project. It will be used for the 62MW solar farm in New South Wales, which the company intends to build next to the ageing Vales Point coal plant.
This was releases as a joint statement by both the companies. The concrete ballasted StormTracker system will be the exclusive single-axis solar tracker solution for this Vales Point solar project.
The use of this technology was broached last month. It was a part of the announcement of a 10-year off-take agreement held between Enernet and Delta Electricity for the solar farm output.
The low maintenance design, targeting project sites where traditional pile-driven or screw-piles aren't feasible made it possible for Alion's technology to win the project.
The risk and associated costs of difficult project sites was resolved by the above-ground foundation works.
Aidan Bone, Alion Energy's regional sales director, had worked before for Australia's largest solar PV EPC contractor, RCR Tomlinson. He said this technology caught his eye for its ability to elope one of the two biggest risks involved in developing a solar farm: the ground and grid connection. As per a report by Value Market Research the global solar tracker market foresees rapid rise in the use of solar trackers due to growing demand for solar cells or photovoltaic cells. Also the benefits of solar tracker like improvement in efficiency of the cells will push the market growth uphill in the next few years.
Enernet said in its statement this week that it hopes the Vales Point project would lead the way to eventually roll out Alion's technology on other challenging sites like ash dam sites, mining tailings dams and municipal landfills across Australia.
Mark Kingsley (Alion CEO) said that they can construct on sites that others cannot due to their new technology helping in turning unproductive sites into good profit making assets.
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