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Solar Trailer Project
The ever-popular Solar Trailer has been used by schools and music festivals across the province for over eight years to demonstrate the viability of using photovoltaics for clean electricity production. Click here for further information on specifications.
Eneract sold the Trailer to the City of Toronto in 2002.
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The Clean, Green, Generatin' Machine at Kortright's Renewable Energy Fair. Summer 2001.
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Solar Trailer Specifications and Technical Specifications
The Solar Trailer is a mobile, photovoltaic electrical generator used to provide clean, quiet, green power for outdoor musical events, festivals, fairs andd parades - rain or shine. It is ideal where conventional grid power is not avilable. The Trailer can provide up to 8 kWh or power per day. Solar power provides an excellent opportunity to educate the public about renewable energy and energy conservation, with displays and demonstrations on-site.
In brief:
- Auto trailer mounted.
- Sets up in 15 minutes.
- Can provide silent 24-hour/day power anywhere.
- Utilizes onboard photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and/or gen set - energy sources with deep cycle DC battery storage.
- Automatic electronic operation.
Technical Details:
- Trailer size: 4' x 6'; 1 500lbs
- Solar Array: 180 Watts [peak]
- Typical daily output: 1 000 Watt-hours
- Battery storage: 660 Amp-hours @ 24 Volts DC.
- Output: 16 kW-hours [16 000 W-hours]
- Recommended Maximum output: 8 kWh.
- Inverter power: 4 000 W continuous @ 120 VAC [pure sine wave], 10 000 W surge.
Some events that have been powered by the Solar Trailer include: folk and community festival music stages [eg. Hillside, Peterborough] and other events for Earth Day, the City of Toronto and numerous other groups.
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