Power to Deliver

Advantages

With over a decade of extensive development work by scientists and engineering teams, coupled with long term investment funding, the SunCatcher™ Solar Dish is ready to produce large scalable utility grid-quality electricity from the most abundant energy resource, solar thermal heat.

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Optimized Performance :: Lowest Cost

The SunCatcher™ represents over a decade of re‐engineering and redesign of the most advanced Concentrating Solar‐Thermal Power (CSP) generation equipment technology offering highest efficiency, reliability and performance at the lowest competitive costs.

Terrain Tolerance :: Flexibility

The SunCatcher™ unique modularity allows the units to be installed on sloping land with up to a 10% grade. This significantly reduces the requirements for grading of sites and minimizes the ground disturbance. The most advanced Concentrating Solar‐Thermal Power (CSP) generation equipment technology available, offering the highest efficiency, proven reliability and performance, at the lowest competitive costs.

Modular :: Scalable

Each SunCatcher™ generates 25kW of grid‐quality electricity immediately, as they’re connected to the power grid. Now 21st century solar power plants will be able to scale daily, from 25MW to over 1,000MW. And, should a subsystem need replacing, the SunCatcher™ offers a modular ‘plug & play’ design that simply replaces a subsystem when needed on site, with minimal impact on operations. There are no wait times for parts or engines which optimizes on‐grid availability. The SunCatcher™ sets a new standard for cost effective modularity and scalability.

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Highest Conversion Efficiency :: Solar‐To‐Grid Electricity

The SunCatcher™ consists of an innovative concentrating mirrored radial design that automatically rotates to track the sun, focuses and concentrates solar energy onto a single point, the Power Conversion Unit, which generate the world’s highest solar energy‐to‐grid quality electricity peak conversion efficiency, at 31.25%.

Lowest Water Use :: Significant Cost Savings

The SunCatcher™ does not need water for electricity generation or cooling cycles. Only a fraction of the amount of water required by competitive CSP technologies is used for washing its mirrors.

Maximize Performance

Other CSP technology designs require certain turbine generator power capacities as energy demands change. For example, a 10MW facility would require a 10MW turbine. However, as energy consumption increases, let’s say to 50MW, the solar facility would then require a new 50MW turbine generator. This process continues as demand dictates, whether it’s a 100MW, 1GW, or anywhere in between. Changing out large turbines to match capacity is costly, and, impacts the solar power plant on-line availability at risk. And, should turbine generators require service or need replacement, long lead times take the power plant off line, an extremely costly scenario to both power facilities and their customer communities.

Significant cost savings are gained, in addition to the siting, permitting, and environmental advantages. The SunCatcher™ is the most advanced Concentrating Solar‐Thermal Power (CSP) generation equipment technology, offering the highest efficiency, most proven reliability and performance, at the lowest competitive costs.