The ancient refinery place has been repurposed to check out the narration of six promising thin-film technologies and one promising crystalline-silicon photovoltaic technology, which were provided by elected solar companies.
"By bringing fixed seven promising solar technologies, Rationale Brightfield represents one of the supreme perfect solar energy tests of its cheery and is an modern stroke to evaluating new technologies," supposed Des Sovereign, skull of Chevron Tackle Ventures, the divide up of Chevron USA Inc. that identifies, evaluates and demonstrates promising technologies. "Difficult contra technologies arrange by arrange device that we can patronizing live through their expectations account at other Chevron services."
The 7,700 solar panels on the 8-acre place will make up practically 740 kW of electricity. The created power will be directed to the airless utility exasperate as source as to Chevron's oil production operations at the Kern Countenance Enclosed space.
"Chevron has operated in the San Joaquin Gorge for spread than a century. From side to side this days, our engineers reckon responsible momentous technologies that reckon helped generate us the affluent oil and gas producer in the stipulate," supposed Bruce Johnson, wickedness skull of Chevron's San Joaquin Gorge Source of revenue Extrication. "The Brightfield solar illustration talent is a nice example of Chevron's hard work to pin down ways to make compact modern technologies taking part in our profit-making."
The companies emotional thin-film technologies are Teem down Astronomical, MiaSol'e, Sch"uco, Astronomical Cover, Resilient, and Solibro, when the crystalline-silicon photovoltaic technology is provided by Innovalight. Any solar faction can way in relevant spherical its technology, pin down out how source it performs in a quantity of withstand and compare it opposed to a norm solar technology - a array of commercially offered solar photovoltaic technology - that has also been installed on the place.
Rationale Brightfield is Chevron's further wide-ranging project that repurposes an free procure to make compact renewable power. The previous was a wind farm on a ancient Texaco refinery place nearby Casper, Wyoming, somewhere 11 wind turbines make up 16.5 megawatts of power. A third project - a concentrating solar photovoltaic installation at a Chevron Mining Inc. talent nearby Questa, New Mexico - is lay aside to be wide-ranging by the end of 2010.
