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AllEarth Renewables and Claire Solar Partners have announced the completion of a 2.2-megawatt solar tracker farm in South Burlington, Vt. JA Solar provided multicrystalline 260-watt (W) potential induced degradation-resistant modules for the project.
The project is the largest in North America to use distributed inverters and dual-axis trackers to maximize production.
Claire Solar used 366 AllSun Trackers and highly efficient modules from JA Solar to further maximize the farm’s output. The ground-mounted, pre-engineered solar trackers, which track the sun throughout the day, produce up to 30 percent more energy than fixed ground-mounted systems. JA Solar’s multicrystalline 260W modules outperform the peers’ modules by 5–10W in terms of power rating.
The project was constructed under Vermont’s Sustainably Priced Energy Enterprise Development standard-offer program and will produce more than 3 million kilowatt-hours of emissions-free energy per year. AllEarth Renewables also served as the engineering, procurement and construction company for the project.
In 2011, AllEarth Renewables used its solar trackers for a 2.1 MW solar farm across the road from the Claire Solar site.
