Brewster DG, Brewster CS
PDC provided electrical installation services for a new, 23-acre solar field for Brewster Cheese plant in Stockton, Illinois. The solar field consists of half community solar and half distributed generation. It provides an alternate renewable power source for the cheese plant; creating the distributed generation side of the solar field. It also provides a community solar field to be exported to the ComEd utility gird for the local area to use. While the general contractor was having the site surveyed, PDC took the opportunity to plan and layout the underground conduits that would return power from the 30 inverters amongst the rows of solar panels. All power conduits would converge and terminate at the two, 3,000-amp switchboards on the north side of the solar field. Each conduit feeder had to be traceable and carefully laid out as to maintain the specified separation from the communications conduits and controls conduits. The project was completed in seven months.
Description
Silver Award
Specialty Contractor, Electrical, Industrial, $250,000 to $1 Million
Brewster DG, Brewster CS
Stockton, IL
PDC Electrical Contractors
Owner: Summit Ridge Energy
Designer: SEI Engineering
PDC provided electrical installation services for a new, 23-acre solar field for Brewster Cheese plant in Stockton, Illinois. The solar field consists of half community solar and half distributed generation. It provides an alternate renewable power source for the cheese plant; creating the distributed generation side of the solar field. It also provides a community solar field to be exported to the ComEd utility gird for the local area to use. While the general contractor was having the site surveyed, PDC took the opportunity to plan and layout the underground conduits that would return power from the 30 inverters amongst the rows of solar panels. All power conduits would converge and terminate at the two, 3,000-amp switchboards on the north side of the solar field. Each conduit feeder had to be traceable and carefully laid out as to maintain the specified separation from the communications conduits and controls conduits. The project was completed in seven months.
