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Installations

This list contains some of the projects that GSES has been involved in.

GSES partners have designed and installed hundreds of systems for the domestic, commercial and industrial markets. 

If you would like more information on any of these installations or other installations that GSES have been involved in, please click here to send us your enquiry.  

REMOTE AREA POWER SYSTEMS (OFF-GRID SYSTEMS)

MLC MARSHMEAD, Victoria,  Australia

MLC Marshmead is a school at Mallacoota Victoria, near the NSW  border. Each school term a year nine class (comprising of about 30 pupils) live on site. The students undertake classes, which include environment and ecology issues. The site comprises about 10 cabins and three houses for accommodation. There are also offices, central kitchen and living quarters. The site uses about 250kWhrs per day.

Geoff Stapleton won the tender that involved the installation of an upgrade to their previous system. T

he upgrade included the installation of:

  • 35kVA Three Phase Interactive Inverter;
  • 3 parallel banks of 120V 1600 Ah Batteries;
  • Modifications to a 35kVA generator to suit the new system.

The system already comprised of a 2.5kW Solar Array and a 10kW Westwind Wind turbine. The system includes monitoring so that information on the system can be obtained via the phoneline.

SIMEON WINES, South Australia, Australia

Kim Atkinson was commissioned to design, supply and install a generator interactive power system for Simeon Wines Vineyard.

The system comprises:

  • 17 kVA diesel generator;
  • 4.5kVA Interactive Inverter/charger;
  • 55kVA Battery Bank.

Natural Technology Systems designed and installed the control system to apply loads to the inverter and the diesel generator systems with peak and off peak loads.

GREEN CAPE LIGHT HOUSE STATION, New South Wales, Australia

Kim Atkinson has been awarded seven contracts for the supply and installation of a hybrid diesel solar power system, by the National Parks of New South Wales.

This system is identical to that installed on Montague Island, New South Wales. Kim Atkinson, Stephen Garrett and Geoff Stapleton worked together on these two systems.

The system comprises:

  • 4kW Peak Solar Array;
  • 10 kVA Interactive Inverter/charger;
  • 135kW Battery Bank.

SANTOS GAS FIELDS, New South Wales and Victoria

Kim Atkinson tendered and was awarded a contract to supply solar systems to two separate sites to power telemetry systems for the gas pipeline from Victoria to New South Wales.

The systems contained complete solar power systems for remote installation at isolated sites.

Systems comprise of:

  • 1kW Solar Array;
  • Mounting Frame, footings and wiring;
  • Battery Bank, enclosures and control systems.

COMMUNITY OF PORTO LOBOS, Mexico

Dean Middleton supplied solar home systems as part of a  Village Electrification project. Eighty households in the remote fishing village of Porto Lobos which has no access to utility power now have lighting service provided by single module 50 WP systems.

GRID CONNECTED SYSTEMS

SOLARCH, University of New South Wales, Australia

SOLARCH is a passive solar designed building operated as a training/research site by the Faculty of Architecture, UNSW. It is also includes the first 4.5kW grid connected PV System installed in the state of NSW.

In 1994, Geoff Stapleton and Stephen Garrett were contracted by BP Solar Australia to undertake the installation of this system.

ST PETERS COLLEGE SCIENCE CENTRE,  South Australia, Australia

Designed and installed by Kim Atkinson this Hybrid grid interactive power system.

System comprises of:

  • 2 kW Roof mounted Solar Array;
  • 1kW Tracking array frame mounted on building tower;
  • 1 kW SOMA Wind Generator installed on a free standing 10 metre tower. Tower is mounted on building tower.

The renewable energy component was connected to 5kW interactive grid connected inverter. Kim Atkinson developed a monitoring system to integrate all building environmental technologies.

This included:

  • Weather Station;
  • Integrated storm water storage system for toilet flushing;
  • Building Temperature & Humidity;
  • Building Loads;
  • Historical data.

Kim Atkinson developed this system using the latest mechanical engineering SCARD available.

The building project was awarded an award for environmental design by the South Australian Institute for Architecture.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Environmental Sciences Building. NSW, Australia

Susan Neill worked closely with the Environmental Sciences Department at UNSW to design a suitable array to meet the daily power requirements of their composting centre.  Given the limited building roof space and the shading incidence from the surrounding university buildings, the building on which the arrays were installed had limited parts to which the array frames could be attached.  Working with BP Solar and the UNSW,  a solution was designed specifically for this installation.

System comprises of:

  • 1.92kW solar array (2 strings - 12 x 80 watt modules);
  • 2 x GCI 1200 grid-interactive inverters;
  • 1 x Kilowatt hour meter.

PACKAGED UNITS

In addition to the many customised systems, Stephen Garrett, with Pyramid Power and Kerry Kalarney, with Power Pod, has supplied and installed many package units throughout Australia, United Sates of America and South Africa. 

In 2000 and 2001 GSES helped Cummins Power systems develop a containerised package unit to be sold through their retail network.


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