Satcon Receives 150MW Order from GCL Solar Limited for Installations in China
April 07 2010 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Satcon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading
provider of utility scale power solutions for the renewable energy
market, today announced an order for 150 megawatts of its 500kW
solar PV inverters from GCL Solar Limited, one of China’s largest
utility solar power plant developers and suppliers. This deal marks
the second phase of Satcon’s partnership with GCL that was
established in 2009, linking two of the industry’s most innovative
renewable energy suppliers and developers.
Satcon will begin supplying the inverters in April, with all
deliveries scheduled for completion in October of 2010. Satcon’s
500kW units will be used on multiple utility scale projects across
China and will build on the already successful collaboration
between the two companies, which includes the 3MW and 20MW power
plants completed in December of 2009, China’s largest rooftop and
ground mounted installations respectively.
“The foundation of China’s large scale photovoltaic industry has
been firmly established over the past year and the market is now
entering its next phase in both project sophistication and scale,”
said Dr. Gu Huamin, General Manager of GCL Solar Limited. “As we
move forward the balance between technology innovation, system
stability, and overall system efficiency becomes paramount to the
successful integration of solar power onto China’s national
grid.”
“GCL is one of the world’s most progressive large scale solar
innovators,” said Steve Rhoades, Satcon’s President and Chief
Executive Officer. “Their projects have set the new standard in
utility scale solar design and installation, and mark a new chapter
in the global solar PV power industry. We are honored to partner
with GCL and be a part of this world class team of solar power
leaders.”
“Our partnership with Satcon has helped us deliver many of
China’s largest installations each successfully achieving the
highest levels of performance and reliability,” continued Dr. Gu
Huamin. “Satcon is a trusted partner of GCL and continues to
deliver the world’s most advanced and highest quality utility scale
solar inverter solutions. We look forward to working closely with
Satcon to address the needs of the global utility scale solar
market as we continue to build on the successful foundation we have
developed together.”
About Satcon
Satcon Technology Corporation is the leading provider of utility
scale power solutions for the renewable energy market, enabling the
industry’s most advanced reliable and proven clean energy
alternatives. For over 24 years, Satcon has designed and delivered
the next generation of efficient energy systems for solar
photovoltaic, stationary fuel cells, and energy storage systems. To
learn more about Satcon, please visit www.Satcon.com .
About GCL Solar Limited
GCL Solar Limited, part of the GCL Group, is located in Nanjing
China and covers an area of more than 330 thousand square meter of
PV base. The company has established business academicians’
workstations and post-doctoral research station. GCL Solar has a
complete professional engineering and technical personnel of more
than 300 people that has project implementation experience with
strong solar technology of research and development, engineering
design, equipment manufacturing, systems integration and turn-key
project of PV power plant.
GCL Solar Limited specializes in consulting, design, system
integration and total project contracting services of all kinds of
solar system, such as medium and large sized of on--grid solar
power plants, small--scale off--grid power PV systems, PV/wind
power hybrid generating system, BIPV, BAPV rooftop systems
engineering project and so on. The company has successful completed
the largest PV power plant (20MW) on the ground and the largest
BAPV (3MW) project in China that is guided by General Manager Dr.
Gu Huamin since 2009.
To learn more about GCL Solar limited, please visit
www.gcl-eng.com or www.gcl-solar.cn
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