EMERSON WINS MAJOR CONTRACT TO PROVIDE INVERTERS AND
PLANT-WIDE CONTROLS FOR WHAT WILL BE CALIFORNIA’S LARGEST
PHOTOVOLTAIC FACILITY
Critical Emerson
Inverter Technology Converts DC Power From Solar Arrays To AC
Power
ST.LOUIS (Oct. 7, 2010) –
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has been awarded a contract to supply power
inverters and plant-wide controls for what will be California’s
largest photovoltaic power generation facility and one of the
largest in the world.
Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) awarded the
contract to Emerson for the zero-emission solar projects in Kings
County, Calif. Quanta will provide the engineering,
procurement, and construction services for the facilities.
The projects were developed by Eurus Energy America and are
owned jointly by Eurus and NRG Solar, a subsidiary of NRG Energy,
Inc. (NYSE: NRG). Once completed in mid-2011, the facility
will generate 45 megawatts of renewable energy, which is enough to
power 36,000 homes when operating at full capacity.
Offered by Emerson Industrial Automation’s Control Techniques
business, the innovative inverters and sophisticated software
convert DC power from photovoltaic arrays into AC power that is
placed on the electric grid and used in homes and businesses.
The inverters are controlled through Emerson’s state-of-the-art
Inverter Management System, with overall plant control and
interconnection with the electric grid provided by Emerson Process
Management’s Ovation™ distributed control system. more
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Save energy and accurately control solar tracking with our grid tie inverters and
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control solutions use intelligent scalable grid tie inverter
technology that ensures optimum efficiency. Our grid tie inverters
can feed energy back into the distribution network because they
produce alternating current with the same wave shape and frequency
as supplied by the distribution system. Grid tie inverters are also
called power inverters or AC power inverters. See our
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information.