Leolando Pty Ltd is also known as Budget Campsie. It’s a service station located in Campsie.
It operates from early in the morning to late at night.
With a mini-mart operating all hours and load spikes in the morning and and the late afternoon, owner-operator Eric Chau knew something had to be done.
He elected to install solar in early 2019 to cut his station’s rising expenses.
For petrol stations, above everything else, safety is the highest priority.
The system is located on top of the canopy above the fuel dispensing pumps. There is a large underground storage for the petrol as well with thousands of litres of petrol.
SolarEdge string inverters, with their SafeDC feature, was the technology called upon to solve the problem. They minimise fire risks by de-energizing power optimisers and dropping the DC voltage to 1 volt.
This can be activated when the inverter has been switched off, when the building is disconnected from the grid, and when there are cabling or insulation resistance faults detected. This goes much further than other string inverter systems, which merely have a DC isolator switch.
SolarEdge systems reduce the voltage to a level where it is safe to work with.
The 16 kW TrinaSolar & SolarEdge system will deliver roughly 30% of the station’s daily electricity needs. They have SolarEdge tracking which shows whole system electricity consumption, solar generation, and solar self-consumption, for a full picture of electricity use. This enables Eric to track performance of the system and his entire electricity use, and adjust his usage patterns to get the most benefit from his solar investment. He can then rely on grid electricity only when necessary.
SYSTEM SIZE16kW
PANEL BRANDTrinaSolar
PANEL MODEL365W
PANEL QUANTITY44
INVERTER BRANDSolarEdge
INVERTER MODEL16kW
INVERTER QUANTITY1
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