NEWS ALERTSustainable Energy's Solar Inverters Installed at Concordia University Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd (TSX VENTURE:STG) ("Sustainable Energy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its leading edge solar inverter technology was recently installed at the Concordia University new John Molson School of Business.
The installation was part of a project demonstrating the integration of state of the art solar technology to generate heat and power in a non-residential building. Solar panels covering the top two floors of one facade of the institutional building were installed representing the largest solar-electric installation in Quebec, Canada. Covering approximately 300 square meters, the solar panels will generate electricity for the building and heat fresh air during the heating season.
The full Concordia University press release discussing this project along with pictures can be obtained at:
https://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2009/01/concordias_new_john_molson_sch.php?&print=1
Integrating solar power into new buildings on a cost effective basis requires a shift from custom engineered solutions to standardized, modular building blocks that are built into the building envelope in an aesthetically attractive way, like any other building product. Sustainable Energy's patented inverter technology overcomes critical obstacles to making this a reality.
Building integrated photovoltaic - referred to often as "BIPV" - presents a wide variety of challenges including shading from normal building congestion, variances in the orientation of the solar panels due to building design constraints and new paradigms in system maintenance.
By reducing the impact of non-ideal and non-uniform illumination on overall system performance, Sustainable Energy's unique parallel system architecture enables a standard building block approach while optimizing solar power output over the entire building envelope.
"We are delighted that our leading inverter technology was selected in this state of the art solar project," stated Michael Carten, CEO of Sustainable Energy Technologies who is also a graduate of Loyola College of Concordia. "BIPV will be a much larger part of the solar landscape as the most cost effective solution for making solar power part of the energy mix of industrialized countries. A key to this is the "parallel system architecture" which eliminates many of the challenges to making BIPV a reality in our cities."