Edison Township Public Meeting Silver Lake Solar Farm - PSEG

Edison Township
Public Meeting
Silver Lake Solar Farm
January 7, 2010
Alfredo Z. Matos
Vice President Renewables & Energy Solutions

Public Service Electric & Gas
New Jersey’s oldest & largest regulated electric and
gas delivery utility
150,000 miles of wire
33,000 miles of pipe
2.1M electric customers
1.7M gas customers
2,600 sq. mile territory
$7.6B in revenues
6,100 employees
Four major unions
24/7 operations

NJ’s Energy Master Plan….
By 2020….
• Reduce energy consumption by 20%
• Reduce peak demand by 20%
• 30% of energy supply will come from
renewable sources

PSE&G’s Energy Efficiency Initiatives
Energy Efficiency:
Funding $236MM to implement energy
efficiency programs using all-hands-ondeck
strategies to create good paying
jobs and help customers save
energy/reduce energy bills
Street Lighting:
PSE&G to spend $50MM to replace
mercury vapor municipal street lighting
with more efficient induction fluorescent
lighting.
Vehicles:
PSE&G investing in hybrid cars, light
trucks, bucket truck prototypes

PSE&G’s
Renewable Energy Initiatives
Solar Loans. PSE&G is
offering ~$250 million in
loans to finance solar system
installations (totaling 81MW) on homes,
businesses, municipal buildings.
Solar 4 All. PSE&G is investing $515MM to
construct, own and operate 80MW in solar
installations.

NJ has less PV solar radiation than certain other states…
Yet NJ is #2 in the US for total solar capacity!

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Solar 4 All - PSE&G owned solar
• PSE&G will install, own and
operate 80MW of solar systems
throughout our electric service
territory
– 40MW of pole attached solar which is
the largest pole mounted solar project
in the world
– 40MW will be installed on PSE&G
properties as well as public and
private third party sites

First 4 sites on PSE&G property:
Name
Size
Installer
Silver Lake Solar Farm
(Edison)
Yardville Solar Farm
Linden Solar Farm
About 8,500 solar
panels on 5.7 acres;
2 MW
About 19,000 solar
panels on 16 acres;
5.1 MW
About 15,000 solar
panels on 10 acres;
3.6 MW
J. Fletcher Creamer &
Sons
American Capital Energy
Advanced Solar
Products
Trenton Solar Farm
About 5,500 solar
panels on 3.8 acres*;
1.3 MW
Sun Edison
In addition to creating jobs, these 4 projects will produce enough annual energy
to power about 1,300 homes and eliminate about 6,700 tons of CO2 emissions, the
equivalent of removing nearly 1,200 cars from the road for one year!
*Note: reflects updated value for space requirement as of 1/20/2010

Benefits:
• Create green jobs
• Attract & retain businesses in NJ
• Provide all customers access to Solar Energy
• Support the development of clean renewable
energy technology
• Reduce pollution / carbon footprint
• Support NJ Energy Master Plan targets
Serve as a role model for sustainable communities!

How Solar Works
January 7, 2009
Lyle Rawlings, P.E.
CEO Advanced Solar Products

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOLAR ENERGY
60,000 B.C. the first known passive solar house is built of interlocking
mammoth tusks
100 A.D. Greeks and Romans used “burning mirrors” to focus sunlight as
weapons of war to ignite fires and burn sails of enemy war ships
1839 Edmund Becquerel, the French experimental physicist, discovered the
photovoltaic effect while experimenting with an electrolytic cell
1904 Albert Einstein, in his first published scientific paper, explains the
photovoltaic effect by describing light in terms of “Quanta” he called “photons”.
This laid part of the foundation for Quantum Theory.
1921 Albert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize for his theory explaining photovoltaics
1958 Vanguard I, the first PV-powered satellite, is launched
1973 The Terrestrial solar industry is born at a conference in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
2003 Worldwide production capacity for Photovoltaics surpasses 500
Megawatts per year, growing at a 35% per year pace. Grid connected
PV grows at a rate of 100% per year.

The Photovoltaic Effect
Phosphorous has
one more electron
than Silicon, and
Boron has one less.
When these
materials are
substituted into a
Silicon crystal, it
creates an electric
field that sweeps
electrons freed by
light energy out of
the cell and to a
load. No material is
consumed and the
process could
continue
indefinitely..
P
Si
B
The Photovoltaic Effect

from
“Mid-Atlantic States Supply Curve Analysis” - JBS Energy, Inc.
How Power Prices Are Set After Deregulation
and How Demand Reduction Benefits ALL Ratepayers
Highest-priced unit of power bid in to PJM for a
particular hour sets price paid to ALL Generators
Price
Demand Reduction:
Reduced Price is Value to All Ratepayers
Demand Reduction:
Reduced Usage is Value to Participants
Demand

Environmental Benefits
30-year Lifetime Emission Savings
2,000 kW System
Air Quality
Resource Conservation
SMOG 500 tons NOx
Oil 220,000 barrels, or
Acid Rain 800 tons SOx
Global 40,000 tons CO2
Warming
Coal 64,000 tons, or
Natural 14000 million
Gas
cubic feet

Solar is desired for Jobs and Economic Growth…
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Among today’s
energy resources,
PV is the most
intensive job
creator per MWH
generated.
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
JOBS
CREATED:
PERSON-YEARS
PER 1000 MWH
0
PV
COAL
Sources: Renewable Energy Policy Project, “The Work That Goes Into Renewable
Energy”, and Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association

Solar energy helps to grow the economy:
In a study by the Center for Business and Economic
Research at Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, it was found
that the growth in renewables due to Nevada’s
Renewable Portfolio Standard would add $665
million per year to the GSP (as well as 5,000 jobs).
Solar energy can create export revenue (most U.S.
made PV modules are exported) while reducing fuel
imports, thus improving the trade balance from both
ends.

Residential PV Systems

Flat-mount Rooftop Arrays

Fixed-Tilt Rooftop Arrays

PV Power for Emergency Facilities:
Bayonne Midtown School

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1 In a power outage, the existing emergency power system
automatically disconnects from the outside electric grid
2 The Generator starts
The Inverter re-starts in a special “Generator Support Mode” and
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automatically shares the building’s s emergency power load with the
Generator, keeping fuel use to a minimum
• When power is restored, the Inverter goes back to normal mode,
supplying solar power to the building
• The entire process is fully automated
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Details of Proposed Site Improvements
January 7, 2009
Daniel R. Urban
Business Manager
J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc.

Current Site Conditions

Current Site Conditions

Current Site Conditions

Proposed Development

Site Specific Details
• 8500 +/- 235w Panels
• 2.1 MW/DC of Generation
• 2,500,000 kwh per year
• Life Expectancy Exceeds 35 Years
• Will Improve Site Aesthetics

Fixed-Tilt Ground Array – Aerial View

Power conversion: Inverters convert DC power to AC

Fixed-Tilt Ground Array – View from South

Fixed-Tilt Ground Array – View from North

Thank you for Attending
Questions
January 7, 2009