Dynamic Energy Solutions announced the completion of a 965-kW rooftop solar array for Wacoal America at their headquarters and distribution center in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Wacoal America is a subsidiary for the Americas of Wacoal Holdings, a global manufacturer of women’s apparel products.
Investing in this rooftop solar facility underscores Wacoal America’s commitment to technical innovation and environmental stewardship. The project is yet another example of the state of New Jersey’s leadership in the global transition to a clean electric grid.
In light of New Jersey’s imminent transition to a new solar incentive regime, Dynamic Energy mobilized an accelerated construction schedule to ensure Wacoal America secured the maximum benefits possible for their project, successfully executing contracting, turnkey development, installation and commercial operation in under 12 months. Dynamic Energy designed and constructed a system that will power nearly all the distribution center’s energy needs and enables Wacoal to participate in New Jersey’s solar renewable energy credit (SREC) program.
“Wacoal is excited about the completion of the solar installation and the opportunity to generate solar energy. This solar project with Dynamic Energy moves us in the right direction toward our Sustainability Initiative in support of our Corporate Social Responsibility,” said LaRome Talley, senior VP of finance at Wacoal America.
“It is exciting to see a commercial solar project realize significant economic and environmental benefits within such a short period of time,” said Mike Perillo, founder and CEO at Dynamic Energy. “We applaud Wacoal’s investment and we are proud to be their partner to help them achieve their energy and sustainability goals.”
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Solarman says
The average energy output for this system in New Jersey would be about 170kWh for 24 hours. With energy storage using smart algorithms and arbitrage, this plant (could) become a net energy resource to the grid during high grid demand times of the day. Selling grid services to the local utility could pay off the entire system sooner than later. This type of thing allows the manufacturing plant to off set or eliminate the overhead of a monthly electric bill. The money saved can go elsewhere in the plant, for expansion, for more equipment and perhaps more efficient manufacturing equipment. Then, if the energy storage system is over designed to allow auxiliary grid services to the utility, another revenue stream is created for the manufacturing facility.
The operations of this manufacturing facility is important to how much a large solar PV system will allow the facility to be powered by solar PV alone. If it’s an 8 to 5 job schedule, then the plant can be well served by the solar PV alone. If energy storage was part of the mix, this plant could send less power to the grid, save more power generated to time shift for later manufacturing use and have energy storage available to sell grid services to the local utility. I believe this is the future in manufacturing as a whole around the World.