Typical Solar plants
- Remote sites with solar only plants require extensive batteries
- Typical solar plant size grows by 15 to 25 times of the load using batteries for autonomy
- Higher maintenance and cooling cost with batteries
- Conversion loses with typical AC inverters & PV strings based solar plants
- Daily cycle and battery aging reduces mid-end life battery discharge efficiency
- Solar plant efficiency drops significantly due to conversion loses and battery loses
- Mixing PV technologies and module sizes are prohibited
- Typical solar plant efficiency <75%
- Longer payback cycle (>10 yrs)
HybridLeap™ with Leap power generation
- Smaller solar plant and battery backup
- Solar plant size 3 to 5 times of the load when using power generation for autonomy
- Lower maintenance and cooling cost
- Higher efficiency- eliminates conversion losses and bad cell effect in the PV strings by using DC distributed architecture
- Leap power generation reduces refueling frequency (> 90 days) for typical BTS site
- Less space allocation for PV panels and upstream equipment. No ATS or rectifiers required
- Flexibility to grow and mix new PV technologies with older technologies
- Longer fuel shelf life with LH2P, MEOH and LPG
- Provides telecom grade modularity and redundancy with smaller and scalable plant
- Typical solar plant efficiency >95%
- Shorter payback cycle (~3 yrs)