Comments on: Gemini Solar Pushing Ahead In Austin Sunshine http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:17:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Victor http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19698 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:20:22 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19698 Greetings Austin,

With this great opprounity for our city, I would like for the citizens of Austin to consiter the following:

  1. Is a bid that is close to being accepted (March 5th) from a company that is five months old (Gemini) a prudent dicision?
  2. Have Texas companies bid on this?
  3. Are the solar panels used by Gemini from China or USA?
  4. Is the financing coming mostly from China or Texas?
  5. Is this yearly 10 million dollar check from Austin Energy going to Texas businesses or over seas?
  6. Austin based compaines need the opprounty to know about and build the proposals for the 30MW Solar power plant project being developed for Austin Energy and its customers (us).
]]> By: David Ehrlich http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19697 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:23:05 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19697 Here’s a link that I found (it’s a pdf):
http://www.parkspringsna.org/files/AustinEnergySolar_20090209.pdf

]]> By: David Ehrlich http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19696 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:06:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19696 Hi Chris, I found the information about the single-axis trackers in an Austin Energy presentation on the project. I’ll try and find the original link to the presentation and post it here.

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19695 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:45:38 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19695 Are we sure that they are doing single access tracking? I haven’t seen that in any of the official releases. The ones pictured are SunPower Modules that MMA owns after buying the Nellis project to provide a PPA.

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]]> By: Sweet Solar Home » Blog Archive » Rise & Shine: February 3, 2009 http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19692 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:24:37 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19692 [...] Gemini Solar Pushing Ahead in Austin Sunshine Austin could get one of the biggest solar photovoltaic plants in the country if a deal is approved between Gemini Solar Development and the city-owned Austin Energy. [...]

]]> By: Bilsko http://gigaom.com/cleantech/gemini-solar-pushing-ahead-in-austin-sunshine/#comment-19691 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:12:29 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=21947#comment-19691 So they’ll be paying about 15c / kWh? That’s pretty steep for generation only (not even including additional T&D charges)

30MW @ 25% Capacity Factor gets you 65,700MWh/yr – I can’t imagine that they’ll get much better than about 4kWh/m2/day insolation for single axis tracking in Texas (see: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/redbook/atlas/ )

At that rate, USD$10m /65,700mWh/yr =$152 / MWh, or about 15c / kWh

Again, its pretty high – not the grid-parity figures that have started to show up from some of the Southern California projects.

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