Sungrow, a provider of solar inverters, announced that the solar rooftop array at Sacramento Kings’ Golden 1 Center home arena is utilizing Sungrow’s SG60KU-M string inverters.
Featuring the 700kW rooftop array, the venue becomes the first indoor sports arena to have its entire energy supply sourced from solar. In addition to this, the stadium also gets energy supplied from Rancho Seco solar farm 40 miles away.
The project was co-developed by AES Distributed Energy and SPI Solar.
Golden 1 Center is the first indoor sports arena to earn a LEED Platinum Certification, which is the highest designation for an award that is given for buildings that are energy and resource-efficient.
The Kings solar project is part of “NBA 3.0”, a business philosophy coined by Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive which encourages investments in “technology, globalization, and community partnerships”. Their investment in renewable energy generation is part of the Kings’ initiative to be environmentally friendly.
“We are glad to be supporting continued efforts by the NBA and its franchises to go green. Sungrow is proud to be involved in this project and applaud the Kings’ leadership in the fight against climate change,” said Professor Renxian Cao, President of Sungrow.
Sungrow has come up with the latest 1500VDC string inverter SG125HV. The high-yield string inverter is designed to significantly reduce installation and balance of system costs, and is a prime example of why 1500VDC systems are the next step for the entire industry, the company said. It will be released in early 2017.
Rajani Baburajan
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