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Bankstown Aged Care 67kW multisite solar PV system
PROJECT SUMMARY
RK Solar was awarded the tender for Bankstown City Aged Care to supply, install, and maintain their solar PV system.
Bankstown Aged Care chose RK Solar for our attention to safety, security, and performance.
This multi-site design has two parts.
- 41 individual 1.5kW systems were installed for residential units.
- One 5kW system for house services.
This project used SunLock mounting frames for their anti-theft features. A remote monitoring system was added to enable quick fault finding and repair. The system is integrated into the building, with dashboards of the performance of all systems displayed in the administration office and dashboards of each resident’s system displayed to them on a screen on their wall.
The benefits of solar for aged care facilities and retirement villages are clear. There are big predictable energy-intensive consumption patterns 7 days a week and plenty of open roof space. This makes for very high power bills but also the opportunity to be able to offset it effectively on-site.
In aged care, most of this energy use is during daylight hours. This makes the payback period shorter – lower than the average commercial sector payback period.
SPECIFICATIONS
SYSTEM SIZE67kW
PANEL BRANDSuntech
PANEL MODEL250W
PANEL QUANTITY20 + 246 (6*41)
INVERTER BRAND SMA
INVERTER MODELSunny Boy & Tripower
INVERTER QUANTITY41 & 1