Butler Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Solar Power Research Project
- Location: Butler REC offices, Oxford, OH
- Cost: Approximately $30,000 (including data monitoring and other specialized equipment)
- Panel: 230-square-foot Evergreen Model EC-115
- Estimated solar output: 250 kWh/month
- Contacts: Miami University — Dr. Catherine Almquist, 513-529-2203; almquic@muohio.edu
- Installation date: Sept. 20, 2006
- Installer: Third Sun Solar and Wind Power, Ltd., Athens, Ohio
- Capacity: 2.3 kilowatts
- Data: www.buckeyepower.com Butler REC — Lisa Staggs Herrmann 800-255-2732; lisas@butlerrural.coop
The "economics" of a 2.3KW photovoltaic system based on the Butler REC/Buckeye Power Solar Power Research Project:
- Size of photovoltaic (PV) system: 2.3 kilowatts (KW)
- Initial cost: $23,000
- Annual cost: $2,400
- Monthly kWh: 250 kWh/month or 109 kWh/month/kW
- Annual kWh: 3,000
- Projected capacity factor: 3,000/(2.3 kW x 8,760) = 14.9%
- Cost of PV electricity: $0.80/kWh (80¢/kWh)
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