Eco Factor: Rooftop solar installation for Thyagaraj Stadium in Delhi.
Atlanta-based Suniva and Reliance Industries’ Solar Energy Group has announced that the Thyagaraj Stadium, which will be used for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, will feature a 1MW rooftop solar installation created using Suniva’s thin film mono-crystalline solar cells having an efficiency up to 20 percent.
The company uses the ARTisun Technology, which involves screen printing for making contact lines on the solar cells. With thinner cells the production cost is reduced and the efficiency of the cells is improved dramatically. The stadium has almost 20,000 square meters of area suitable for solar installation. The power system will comprise of 3460 280Wp modules that will generate about 1.4 million KWh of electricity annually, with all surplus energy being transferred to the grid.
Via: CleanTechnica
