When we go out to assess a new candidate for a site location, we need to collect as much useful data as we can for a good design of the planned SolSol power station.
Such data include number of persons living at the institution and close nearby, how many and what kind of buildings need to be served. A family home will have less energy demand than a workshop, also the timing for the energy needs during the day will be very different for a family home and a school building.
Further, we try to identify a suitable building as the location of our power-house. The building needs a large and strong roof to carry the solar panels and a small, lockable safe room inside to place the inverters, power electronics and the battery storage system.
Our solar engineers climb up on the roof to check its stability, to take exact measurements and to check the quality and condition of the roofing material. We also fly around the whole compound with a small camera drone for aerial photos that allow us to identify all buildings, the distances between these and the most suitable routes for the distribution network between power house and user houses.
All this information is collected, recorded and taken back to the SolSol main office location at Lae to be further processed and converted into a system dimensioning for the power station. From these plans we can then order the solar equipment in right sizes and quantities, draw the layout plans and electrical plans for the power house and then quickly convert the plans into a working, reliable power supply for the project site location.
Let the Sun shine!