Project Summary:

The Tehama Tire Company, located in Red Bluff, CA, is a company which recycles truck tires by re-treading them. Tire re-treading is an energy-intensive industry. The owner of Tehama Tire required that 100% of his energy consumption be powered by the sun. They were presented with a two-phase plan to replace the electricity bill with power from the sun. This is the first phase of that plan to install a 160kw PV system designed and supplied by TurtleEnergy and installed by 1 Star Energy. TurtleEnergy provided oversight to ensure implementation of the project shop drawings.

From the start of the Tehama Tire project, TE designed a PV system that maximized efficiency for both the dimensions and orientation of the given area to keep costs to a minimum. Project design and planning services by TE's designers and managers insured the maximum potential at the end of the installation.

Measuring power output from each sector of the photovoltaic array is part of TurtleEnergy's distinguishable service to all of its end users. TE's designers found optimal opportunities to generate electricity at the point of use, which transformed a unused space into a useful source of revenue for the Tehama Tire Company.

As in most all of TE's projects, Fat Spaniel's integrated Satcon inverter direct internet-based monitoring system was implemented for the Tehama Tire project. The Fat Spaniel data acquisition system, logs the actual output performance by the PV system. The resulting measurements are in compliance with the predicted analysis done by TurtleEnergy. Measurements can be viewed on daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or lifetime intervals.