Photo voltaic contractor SALT Vitality has put in a rooftop photo voltaic system in Florida that’s now the state’s largest rooftop photo voltaic system, in addition to its largest privately owned photo voltaic mission.

The three.24 megawatt (MW) photo voltaic mission is put in on the roof of Badia Spices’ 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sweetwater, Florida, which is in Miami-Dade County. The mission is at present the biggest privately owned photo voltaic mission in Florida.

Miami-based SALT Vitality – a subsidiary of Washington, DC-based Salt Service – focuses on putting in hurricane-proven photo voltaic arrays “in corrosive and high-wind situations” in Florida and the Caribbean. The Miami-based firm used flat roof racks made by PanelClaw and photo voltaic panels manufactured by San Jose, California-based SunPower on this mission:

David Kaul, vice chairman of engineering and operations for SALT Vitality, stated:

The requirement by our buyer to keep away from roof membrane penetrations for anchoring the array to protect the guarantee, coupled with the hurricane wind load design necessities in Miami-Dade County, posed the 2 biggest technical challenges for our Badia Spices mission.

Badia Spices is a family-owned Hispanic meals firm that was based in 1967. The corporate’s new rooftop photo voltaic set up – its second – will offset round 80% of the manufacturing facility’s electrical energy utilization. In 2019, SALT Vitality put in a 529-kW rooftop photo voltaic array on Badia Spices’ 100,000-square-foot facility in Doral, Florida. 

Electrek’s Take

All collectively now: Rooftop photo voltaic on large field buildings is an absolute no-brainer. Good going, Badia household. That is superior.

The technical challenges Kaul refers to on this mission are Floridian in nature. Miami-Dade is a high-velocity hurricane zone, so it rightly has a few of the world’s hardest constructing laws. Florida insurance coverage necessities are getting harder, and the manufacturing facility will need to maintain its photo voltaic panels secured in excessive winds.

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Picture: Badia Spices

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