ECLIPS Container Roll Out Solar System (CROSS)

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The ECLIPS Container Roll Out Solar System (CROSS) project includes the detailed design, manufacture and testing of the Container Roll Out Solar System. CROSS is a factory assembled relocatable PV solar ground array. The CROSS development includes 20ft and 40ft configurations (CROSS20 and CROSS40).The CROSS20 has a maximum output of 2,175W, and the CROSS40 produces up to 4,350W, and can be transported inside standard shipping containers.The CROSS products are being tested in Canberra, and the project will conclude with a Demonstration Day being held at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) on 12 April 2018.The project aims to demonstrate rapid handling of the CROSS system by standard material handling equipment equipment, and validate the scale of the temporary power market opportunity. The ECLIPS Container Roll Out Solar System (CROSS) project recognises a gap in the Australian market for the provision of renewable energy systems at small-commercial scale (100-500 kW), which can be highly mobile and/or temporarily deployed (at timescales of months up to five years). Renewable energy systems which meet this need could be deployed in off-grid and fringe-of-grid areas, and have the potential to offset diesel consumption and improve the security of existing networks. The logistics efficiencies represented by CROSS also reduce some of the barriers to entry for potential renewable power users in remote locations, including short project durations and where power systems need to be periodically relocated.

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