{"id":15173,"date":"2015-12-25T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=15173"},"modified":"2015-12-25T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:34:49","slug":"colleton-solar-farm-south-carolinas-largest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/colleton-solar-farm-south-carolinas-largest.html","title":{"rendered":"Colleton Solar Farm: South Carolina’s largest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nSouth Carolina’s largest solar farm generated 5% more power\r\nthan planned\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n in its first year (2014), and demonstrated that\r\ntracking mounts provide more power in the late afternoon at peak\r\nair conditioning use time.\r\nIt took only nine weeks to build, far faster than any pipeline or nuclear project, and you could build enough of these solar farms to produce more energy\r\nin less time than it would take just to permit either of those, much less build them.\r\nHowever, Santee Cooper could do better about enabling others to install and connect solar power.\r\nRight now, Santee Cooper is making even Duke Energy look good.\r\n

\r\n\r\nSantee Cooper, 24 January 2014,\r\n\r\nSouth Carolina’s largest solar farm introduced to the public<\/a>,\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\r\nThe Colleton Solar Farm, the largest facility of its kind in the\r\nstate, is producing electricity just nine weeks after construction\r\nbegan on the project. Utility and solar industry executives\r\nofficially dedicated the solar array during a ceremony Friday\r\nafternoon in Walterboro.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nTIG Sun Energy, a subsidiary of the North Charleston-based InterTech\r\nGroup, is the owner and operator of the Colleton Solar Farm. Santee\r\nCooper, in collaboration with Central Electric Power Cooperative and\r\nthe state’s electric cooperatives, are purchasing the total energy\r\noutput of the farm and studying data about the costs and integration\r\nof utility-scale solar power.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSantee Cooper selected TIG Sun Energy as the solar farm contractor\r\non Oct. 7, 2013. Construction on the 14-acre site began a week\r\nlater. The farm officially began producing power on Dec. 20. The\r\nsolar array consists of 10,010 photovoltaic panels. Some panels are\r\nfixed while other panels follow the direction of the sun to maximize\r\nthe production of solar energy.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nHere it is\r\n\r\nbeing built<\/a>:\r\n

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