SunLogix, a provider of logistics services exclusively to the solar energy industry, announced it has acquired 500,000 square feet of warehousing space in Danville, Virginia. The warehouse provides additional space on the East Coast for Safe Harbor storage, long-term storage and short-term space to store solar power equipment in the event of project delays or other reasons.
“This warehouse will provide the solar energy industry with important access to long-term and short-term storage space,” said David DesVerney, director of business development at SunLogix. “With today’s economic turmoil we believe it is important to provide the industry with easy-to-access storage in the event projects are temporarily halted or work slows down.”
“The warehouse also provides the industry with storage space to take advantage of Safe Harbor provisions for solar energy equipment,” he added.
Additionally, as renewable energy, including solar power, become increasingly important sources of energy, the warehouse will provide valuable storage space for renewable energy providers and contractors.
The warehouse is located in southern Virginia and offers eight dock doors. It is capable of accommodating 20 truckloads per day. The Commonwealth of Virginia does not tax storage of modules, which offers a competitive advantage to solar energy contractors who store materials at the location, said DesVerney.
“Companies who elected to Safe Harbor equipment are facing the challenge of how to store it in a cost-effective way,” said DesVerney. “SunLogix is providing that solution with low, long-term rates at the Danville facility.”
Nationally, SunLogix currently has more than 700 megawatts of solar panels in its inventory at its nine other warehouse locations in the U.S. and the inventory is growing rapidly.
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Solarman says
Storage of solar PV components is a good idea if and when this Corona Virus remediation is over. What could happen, is that China and the Asian rim countries if they have already “retooled” some large manufacturing facilities for bifacial panels which from last month was still not under tariff by the foreign tariff edict. So, one floods the market with bifacial panels that can generate some 10% to 20% more energy on a given day could create the price vacuum that the price point of the new bifacial are lower than the stored panels which may be under tariff price controls. One might get stuck with “old” stock that solar PV adopters might not want.
Just sayin’, with technology moving so fast in the last 5 or so years, what’s new today is obsolete tomorrow. One day perhaps in the near future, one of these R&D groups will not only develop the energy dense, cheap, long charge/discharge, and high and low temperature tolerant battery chemistry. At that juncture, there may not be a need for a complex BMS, charging system, temperature control or fire suppression system needed for energy storage systems. Get that solar PV down to $0.20/watt and energy storage at $65/kWh, one could have a solar PV with energy storage system of relatively large size for $12K installed. Within 6 years or less one could have paid for their system with electricity savings every month, have something that could keep critical circuits in the home powered off of solar PV and energy storage for weeks or months at a time. Most folks don’t seem to understand that the actual circuit breaker panel in their homes is 200 Amps, one uses this amount of surge power very seldom. Most of the time one could do with 60 to 80 Amps of surge and power most of the home’s energy needs (most) of the time. A 15kW inverter and a 75kWh battery pack could handle most loads in the home over an extended period of time. Smart ESS with energy storage and smart hybrid inverter as part of the package could be programmed on the fly for grid tied interactive with energy storage, off grid powering selected critical circuits for power fail or extended off grid operation.