Utility Scale Solar PV

Utility-scale renewable energy generation is often equated to centrally located plants in remote areas. Which then translate to a great need for new and costly transmission lines.

Solar PV addresses this very issue with a unique wholesale distributed generation model. In this model, multiple 10-20MW solar farms are located at distribution level near current or anticipated demand centers. These farms can be deployed quickly, and often require little new transmission.

The most serious obstacle to wholesale distributed generation has always been cost. A SunFab-based fab2farm ecosystem can optimize manufacturing, balance-of-system costs, and financing to drive down the installed cost of solar energy to $3.50/watt and beyond, making distributed solar PV cost-competitive with other traditional renewable generation methods.

There are inherent risks in deploying renewable projects given the relative immaturity of the technologies and the market. The wholesale distributed solar PV generation approach spreads this risk across many projects, rather than putting it all on a few centralized installations.