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24/7 Power: The Key to Fail-Safe Emergency Communications Systems
Emergencies - whether natural or man-made - are inherently unpredictable. This demands that safety professionals be absolutely certain the electricity that powers their rapid-response communication systems will be available when it is most needed. To make informed and educated decisions, professionals and the telecom vendors they work with in the...
Mt-Power for Pemex- Lankahuasa-1 Platform
Northern Power has been awarded a contract by PEMEX's EPC contractor to supply a hybrid solar photovoltaic / microturbine standalone power-system for a new PEMEX natural gas production platform. The power system features dual Capstone C30 microturbines, specially designed and fabricated for Class.1, Division.2 operation. The microturbines, which will consume...
Providing TeleSol and GridTie Power Systems for a Copper/Zinc Slurry Pipeline in the Peruvian Andes
The scope of Northern's work was to design, build, test, and commission nine TeleSol photovoltaic power systems and one GridTie system connected to commercial power. Northern was contracted by Bechtel to work as a technical partner with Pipeline Systems Incorporated PSI of Walnut Creek, CA. PSI provided project engineering of...
Northern Builds Grid-Connected On-Site Power System for Equity Office One Market Street Office Complex
Equity Office is the nation's largest publicly held office building owner and manager with a portfolio of 687 buildings. Equity Office proactively sought to improve energy efficiency at its One Market Street office complex in downtown San Francisco. The advanced 1.5 megawatt cogeneration system consists of three natural gas-fired generators...
Northern and AT&T Install TelePower Systems to Remote Telecommunication Stations in Bolivia
Bolivia's nationally owned post, telephone, and telegraph company, ENTEL Bolivia, needed to provide telecommunications capability to previously unserved regions. AT&T World Services, Inc. selected Northern Power Systems to design and install TelePower hybrid photovoltaic/diesel power systems for fourteen remote locations between Santa Cruz and Quijarro, Bolivia. These TelePower systems consist...
Northern's TeleSol Plus Solar/Diesel System Powers Sprint PCS Microwave Site in Puerto Rico
Sprint PCS needed reliable power at an off-grid site in Puerto Rico. Northern Power Systems designed, manufactured and installed a TeleSol Plus hybrid power system on a jungle mountaintop above Yabucoa, Puerto Rico for a strategic Sprint PCS microwave repeater site. Northern's solution was a high reliability, solar photovoltaic PV...
On-Site Generation Ensures High Reliability at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters GMCR, a gourmet coffee roaster and packager, located in Waterbury, Vermont, had experienced several power disturbances a month, ranging in duration from less than a second to hours. Because the coffee roasting process cannot be interrupted, the outages had caused significant product loss. Northern addressed GMCR's...
Photovoltaics Provide Clean Power for Connecticut College
In support of the need to renovate its campus, Connecticut College, in New London, Connecticut received a federal grant which stipulated that a portion of the funding be used to integrate renewable power. To help the college fulfill this commitment, Northern Power Systems designed and installed a photovoltaic PV array...
Northern Power Systems Installs 22kW Tracking PV System in Cherry Creek, Colorado
Cherry Creek State Park in Colorado wanted clean, renewable power to provide AC electrical power inside the park. Northern Power Systems installed and commissioned a 22kW photovoltaic PV power system for Public Service Company of Colorado PSCo at the Cherry Creek State Park, southeast of Denver, Colorado in June 1996....
Northern Designed Photovoltaic System Charges Electric Vehicles
Southern California Edison wanted to demonstrate the viability of using solar power for an industrial application. Northern Power Systems was hired by Southern California Edison SCE to design, build and test modular AC photovoltaic assemblies for an electric vehicle charging station in Diamond Bar, California. Northern worked with Fluor Daniel...
SC Johnson Produces Energy From Landfill Gas
SC Johnson wanted to reduce the CO2 emissions and lower energy costs at its Waxdale manufacturing facility. SC Johnson hired Northern Power Systems to engineer, build and install a sophisticated cogeneration power system at the company's Waxdale plant in Racine, Wisconsin. Northern's system burns methane gas from a nearby landfill...
Northern SOLS Systems Power Aviation Obstruction Lights at Remote Newfoundland Lake
The remote eastern bank of the Grand Lake transmission crossing in northwest Newfoundland needed a lighting system to identify their transmission lines. Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro awarded a contract to Northern Power Systems for two SOLS, solar-powered obstruction lighting systems. The thermostatically controlled SOLS environmental enclosures feature several insulation and...
Northern Provides World's Largest SOLS System for Transmission Lines Crossing the Mississippi River
The Tennessee tower of the transmission line crossing the Mississippi River needed power for its safety strobe beacons. Northern Power Systems provided complete tower obstruction lighting equipment for a 161kV transmission line crossing the Mississippi River between Missouri and Tennessee. The SOLS, solar-powered obstruction lighting system, supplied for the tower...
Northern SOLS Systems Power Aviation Obstruction Lights at Alabama River Crossing
The Tennessee Valley Authority needed to replace its old, unreliable obstruction lighting systems on transmission lines crossing Wheeler Lake, Alabama. Northern Power Systems provided the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA with complete tower obstruction lighting systems for 500 kV transmission lines crossing Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama....
Northern's TelePower System Powers Remote Satellite Earth Station in Antarctica
Known for its harsh weather conditions and difficult access, Black Island, Antarctica, needed a reliable power system to provide year-round satellite communication to the U. S. McMurdo Station and the outside world. The initial system selected consisted of a NorthWind HR3 wind turbine (3kW peak), manufactured by Northern, and coupled...
Northern's TelePower Provides Power to Seismic Monitoring Site in Northern Alaska
Located on a mountaintop in Alaska, an extreme cold application hybrid system was needed to power equipment that monitors worldwide compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Northern Power Systems designed, manufactured, and tested a hybrid TelePower photovoltaic/diesel power system and installed it on a mountaintop site at Burnt...
Northern's TeleSol Photovoltaic System Provides Power to Cubic Defense Systems for Air Force ACMI Range
Nellis Air Force Base, located outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, needed power to provide total autonomous operation of their Cubic Defense Systems. The power systems were required to withstand the windy, hot desert environment in helicopter-only accessible locations. Northern Power Systems supplied TeleSol photovoltaic stand-alone systems to Cubic Defense. Each...
Northern Provides TeleSol Photovoltaic Power System for SPAWAR Radio Repeater in Antarctica
The U.S. Navy needed a small, integrated power system that could endure high winds and extreme cold of the Antarctic to provide electricity for a cross band radio repeater. Northern Power Systems supplied a remote power system designed to withstand the harsh conditions of an Antarctic mountaintop. They came to...
Northern's TelePower Systems and TRW Provide Power to Mountaintop Aviation Range for U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy's Fallon Range TACTS site in central Nevada needed reliable power for its communications equipment to relay information in extreme hot and cold weather conditions. Under contract to TRW Systems Integration Group, Northern Power Systems designed, manufactured, and installed a hybrid TelePower photovoltaic/diesel power system on a 10,200'...
Northern Provides Power for Brazilian Community
The 2000 island residents of Joanes, Brazil, needed reliable, cost efficient power to deliver energy and stabilize power quality during hours of peak demand. Northern Power Systems was contracted to design and install a 50kW hybrid power system to bring reliable, cost efficient power to the community of Joanes, Brazil....
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