The development and performance of smud grid-connected photovoltaic projects
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, CA (United States)
The utility grid-connected market has been identified as a key market to be developed to accelerate the commercialization of photovoltaics. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has completed the first two years of a continuing commercialization effort based on two years of a continuing commercialization effort based on the sustained, orderly development of the grid-connected, utility PV market. This program is aimed at developing the experience needed to successfully integrate PV as distributed generation into the utility system and to stimulate the collaborative processes needed to accelerate the cost reductions necessary for PV to be cost-effective in these applications by the year 2000. In the first two years, SMUD has installed over 240 residential and commercial building, grid-connected, rooftop, {open_quotes}PV Pioneer{close_quotes} systems totaling over 1MW of capacity and four substation sited, grid-support PV systems totaling 600 kW bringing the SMUD distributed PV power systems to over 3.7 MW. The 1995 SMUD PV Program will add another approximately 800 kW of PV systems to the District`s distributed PV power system. SMUD also established a partnership with its customers through the PV Pioneer {open_quotes}green pricing{close_quotes} program to advance PV commercialization.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 175548
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-411-20379; CONF-9509187-; ON: DE96000468; TRN: 96:000710-0017
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on photovoltaic performance and reliability, Golden, CO (United States), 7-8 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Photovoltaic performance and reliability workshop; Mrig, L. [ed.]; PB: 361 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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