March 14, 2025
The eighth episode of Shipments of the energy transitionA webinar series organized by Mayfield Renewables and Outfit is entitled ‘Install Solar on challenging landscapes.“The presentation emphasizes the Lebanon Solar Project, an array in the municipal utility that has been developed on a floodplain for the city of Lebanon, Ohio, near Cincinnati.
Dispatches of the Energy Transition are organized by Robert Cross, director of Outfit, a Clean Tech Marketing Agency, and Lucas Miller, Senior Engineering Consultant at Mayfield Renewables, which offers third-party technical services for C & I, small utilities for the Solar + STORRAILIEPject.
The guest speakers for episode 8 were:
Kokosing Solar is a project developer and self -performing EPC, which has installed the Lebanon Solar Project, in Columbus, Ohio, which has been established in Columbus, Ohio. With operating roots in Wickliffe, Ohio, Omco Solar is one of the best American factory directory manufacturers of solar trackers and solutions with fixed tilt for distributed generation and utility scale projects. Greenfield and Goodwin discussed the unique challenges of building a solar array in a floodplain of a city and the innovative approach to delivering an adapted and effective solution for the project.
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Project at a glance
The 9.8 MW Lebanon Solar Project The city and its utility customers are expected to save more than $ 27 million, while helping to diversify the Libanon electricity sources and to serve as an attractive showpiece for the community.
After a public bidding process, coconut Solar was selected as the design, construction and EPC partner for the Lebanon Solar Project. In a unanimous mood, the city council approved the $ 13.4 million solar project, largely because of the financial benefits in the long term for its interest trackers. Lebanon is the seventh greatest use of municipal property in Ohio.
The expected costs of the solar arroys will be reduced by around 30% via the federal credit program for investment tax. This project includes three Ground-Mount Arrays in three city ownership, in a combined total of 41 hectares of undeveloped city-resistant country. Coconut Solar energy broke in April 2024. Coconut Solar itself presented the full range of the construction.
About overcoming politics
Greenfield: “There are red states and blue states and all that, but I really wanted the solar energy to be politized. If you think about it, making our own energy in our back garden, independence, diversification, resilience, those are values where everyone in America can nod their heads and agree. Moreover, the economy is something we all believe in, as most of us believe in free markets. ”
The approval of the inflation reduction law and the availability of the investment tax credit offered the required incentive to continue with the Lebanon Solar Project, Greenfield adds.
“It was very refreshing to have decision makers who looked at their citizens, looking for what the best economy is and is not so polarized on the basis of just the fact that someone in the other party had thought a good idea years ago. These decision makers would not make that color their vision, and they looked at things with clear eyes and decided that this was a great opportunity to improve their community. ”
In design considerations
Goodwin: “If we look at it from a technical point of view, if you have an area with a history of flooding and you have height problems, and in this case … there was really no other goal for this site, but normally when we see areas that are identified as floodplains, we know that we have to work closely with the customer to find out what a minimum top values is.”
Project challenging: Arrays on a floodplain
The challenge with the Lebanon Solar Project was that the three arrays were built on a floodplains, which required unique engineering to overcome.
As the solar industry becomes mature, much of the so-called “perfect” or most ideal plots for PV “are swallowed up and as an industry we have to be bought for more sites such as this where the unusable country or country is that would otherwise be sub-optimal for a solar array,” says Miller.
As an area with a history of flooding, building on a floodplain design solutions that protect the electronics – modules, inverters and wiring – ensure that the increasing hardware – in this case, can resist galvanized steel piles – a flooding event.
Overcome challenges
Omco Solar offered an adapted pile technical solution to overcome the challenges of the site. With an average basic flow height of 675 FT, Omco designed four different stacking lengths to ensure that the PV and electronics maintain the minimum required height. The company offered specific labeling for the piles that were in color to provide the stacking drive about where to install each section.
Likewise, coconuting installed the combination boxes and other electronics at the basic height to prevent possible flood damage.
The full webinar “shipments of the Energy Transition” is available on https://youtu.be/hyjkgfj9hfk?si=1BE6HJZATMVGTMYN
Timelet
Make sure you view the full presentation at the top of this message, or skip a specific section below …
- 00:00 – Introduction
- 01:52 – Gast introductions
- 5:35 AM – Omco Solar
- 11:05 am – Domestic content (IRA)
- 14:13 – Domestic production: importance in industry
- 17:54 – Coconut Solar
- 23:02 – The future: energy storage
- 25:22 – City of Lebanon project – Introduction
- 32:12 – complex projects are being built
- 34:35 – City of Lebanon project – Overview of floodplains
- 37:57 – project challenges
- 41:35 – Project time line
- 44:10 – Custom Stacking Technology
- 48:07 – Other components
- 53:00 – Community engagement
- 55:11 – Allow process
- 57:30 – Project results and important collection restaurants
- 1:00:03 – Guest information
Tags: Commercial and Industrial, Shipping, Municipal, Omco -Zonne -Energy
