Project Summary:

Turtle & Hughes, headquartered in Linden, New Jersey, is a $303,000,000 multi-commodity procurement organization. It is a distribution center, with seven additional branch locations, and 18 managed storerooms in the United States serving the industrial, automation, construction, commercial, electrical contracting, export, utility and data communications markets. TurtleEnergy designed a Photovoltaic system to be installed at the headquarters in Linden using SM Electric (Union Contractor) who teamed with IBEW (local 102).

The building had a roof that had to be replaced prior to the installation of a photovoltaic system, and the roofing company was required warrantee the roof with the PV system on it. TurtleEnergy engaged Harrison Hamnett, PC to verify compatibility of the roofing structure with the proposed photovoltaic system. The system design was complicated by the fact that the building is 208V and this affects the size of the wire needed. Turtle Energy managed the installation of the mounting hardware and PV panels. The labor source employed for the summer were interns from New Jersey Institute of Technology who were architecture majors. The project was on a tight deadline due to the rebate sunset.

The project commenced in June of 2007 and the system was commissioned in November of 2007. The size of the PV system for Turtle & Hughes is 255kW.

Fat Spaniel integrated Satcon inverter direct internet-based monitoring system was implemented and Fat Spaniel data acquisition illustrations show snapshots of the actual energy generation by the PV system for Turtle & Hughes. These measurements are in compliance with the predicted analysis done by TurtleEnergy and in some cases exceed the target energy output range. Data monitoring results are available both on a real-time and historical basis. Measurements can be viewed on daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or lifetime intervals. The installed PV system has successfully helped reduce the on-grid energy usage.