By Greentech Lead America: eSolar, a provider of
modular, scalable concentrating solar power (CSP) plant technology, and
Sanmina-SCI, an integrated manufacturing services company, have partnered to
leverage their respective expertise in solar thermal energy solutions, local
content-optimized component design, and manufacturing to offer cost and value
for utility-scale power plants.
Both companies will work to optimize eSolar’s solar collector
system product offering – a system already deployed in operating CSP
facilities.
“Sanmina-SCI’s global reach perfectly match eSolar’s
demonstrated advantage in simple, reliable hardware and industry-leading system
software. As we continue to pursue large-scale solar projects worldwide, we
need a partner who will optimize our products for manufacturability,
scalability and cost-efficiency. Their expertise will enable manufacturing cost
reductions allowing eSolar to become even more cost-competitive,”
said Gary Breton, senior vice president of Operations for eSolar.
eSolar’s modular and scalable CSP heliostats
track the sun with high precision and reflect the sun’s heat to a tower-mounted
receiver, which boils water to create steam. This steam powers a traditional
turbine and generator to produce clean electricity. Sanmina-SCI will bring
their manufacturing and supply chain design input to the table via a joint
engineering effort with eSolar designers.
“eSolar is making an important contribution in the
global quest to produce renewable energy cost-competitively, and we are
privileged to be selected to support this design effort. We’re pleased our
skills will be used to design some of the key building blocks for eSolar’s
utility-grade solar projects and play a role in increasing power generation
from clean sources of energy,” said Tom Clawson, executive vice
president, industrial markets for Sanmina-SCI.
Satcon teams with Sanmina-SCI for manufacturing solar inverters
for the Ontario feed-in-tariff program
Recently, Satcon Technology entered in to a strategic
manufacturing agreement with Sanmina-SCI, an electronics contract manufacturer,
to manufacture its solar inverter solutions in order to comply with Ontario’s
Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) program. Sanmina-SCI will manufacture Satcon’s PowerGate
Plus 50 kilowatt, 100 kilowatt, 250 kilowatt, and 500 kilowatt inverters along
with Satcon’s Prism Platform solutions in Ottawa, Ontario.