SOLAR FARMS
GREEN TUNNEL is expanding the Business to Install and Manage SOLAR FARMS.
We are currently looking for solar farm sites to develop development with an investor, if you would be interested and meet the below criteria please contact us:
What is a solar farm?
A solar farm, sometimes referred to as a photovoltaic power station, is typically a large decentralized solar array supplying electricity to the power grid. The majority of these massive arrays are owned by utilities and are merely another asset for the utility to supply power to properties in their coverage area. A broader definition of solar farms could include other ground-mounted solar arrays large enough to supply power for many households. This general concept of a solar farm could be associated with both residential community solar and larger utility-scale solar.
Solar farms and community solar
The idea of community solar has taken off in recent years as more homeowners have realized that they can go solar without putting solar panels on their own physical roof. A community solar project—sometimes referred to as a “solar garden” or roofless solar —is a solar power plant whose electricity is shared by more than one household. In most cases, a community solar array is a large ground mount installation that spans one or many acres.
Visually, these solar gardens resemble utility-scale solar farms, but they are often smaller in size. Customers can either purchase a share of a solar garden and own that portion of the overall array or they can lease energy from the solar system and, in a sense, replace their monthly utility payments with monthly community solar payments that are typically at a lower price.
How much do solar farms cost?
Solar farms at the utility scale will typically be at least 1 megawatt (MW), which is a power plant capable of supplying some 200 households. Though cost will range based on a number of factors like location and available sunlight hours, top commercial provider First Solar has stated that the cost per watt for solar installations at this scale is somewhere around $1/watt. Therefore, you can assume that a 1 MW solar farm would cost roughly $1 million to install.
If that value sounds unusually low in comparison to typical costs associated with residential solar ($3 to $4 dollars per watt), it should. The “economies of scale” concept is in full effect with the solar industry.The largest solar system installed in the world is the Kamuthi Power Plant, which went live in December 2016 in India. The 648 MW array was bid at $0.93 per watt and can supply energy to over 150,000 households. It should be clarified that these massive solar plants are more commonly referred to as “solar farms” than smaller ground mount arrays often see with community solar projects. Solar systems at the scale of the Kamuthi Power Plant are the size of entire towns and thus take on the name “solar farm” to reference the size of the install.The term more commonly used with community solar is “solar gardens” due to the fact that the system could be only a few acres and could even live in someone’s backyard.
We are currently looking for solar farm sites to develop development with an investor, if you would be interested and meet the below criteria please contact us:
- Land area between 1-25 acres
- You own the land
- Within around 3km of a 33kV or 11kV line (we can check this for you)
- Free from shading
- Fairly flat and rock free
What is a solar farm?
A solar farm, sometimes referred to as a photovoltaic power station, is typically a large decentralized solar array supplying electricity to the power grid. The majority of these massive arrays are owned by utilities and are merely another asset for the utility to supply power to properties in their coverage area. A broader definition of solar farms could include other ground-mounted solar arrays large enough to supply power for many households. This general concept of a solar farm could be associated with both residential community solar and larger utility-scale solar.
Solar farms and community solar
The idea of community solar has taken off in recent years as more homeowners have realized that they can go solar without putting solar panels on their own physical roof. A community solar project—sometimes referred to as a “solar garden” or roofless solar —is a solar power plant whose electricity is shared by more than one household. In most cases, a community solar array is a large ground mount installation that spans one or many acres.
Visually, these solar gardens resemble utility-scale solar farms, but they are often smaller in size. Customers can either purchase a share of a solar garden and own that portion of the overall array or they can lease energy from the solar system and, in a sense, replace their monthly utility payments with monthly community solar payments that are typically at a lower price.
How much do solar farms cost?
Solar farms at the utility scale will typically be at least 1 megawatt (MW), which is a power plant capable of supplying some 200 households. Though cost will range based on a number of factors like location and available sunlight hours, top commercial provider First Solar has stated that the cost per watt for solar installations at this scale is somewhere around $1/watt. Therefore, you can assume that a 1 MW solar farm would cost roughly $1 million to install.
If that value sounds unusually low in comparison to typical costs associated with residential solar ($3 to $4 dollars per watt), it should. The “economies of scale” concept is in full effect with the solar industry.The largest solar system installed in the world is the Kamuthi Power Plant, which went live in December 2016 in India. The 648 MW array was bid at $0.93 per watt and can supply energy to over 150,000 households. It should be clarified that these massive solar plants are more commonly referred to as “solar farms” than smaller ground mount arrays often see with community solar projects. Solar systems at the scale of the Kamuthi Power Plant are the size of entire towns and thus take on the name “solar farm” to reference the size of the install.The term more commonly used with community solar is “solar gardens” due to the fact that the system could be only a few acres and could even live in someone’s backyard.
