Minnesota fuel refinery will be powered by 45-MW solar project

• DEPCOM Power was gotten to develop a 45-MW solar installment for Flint Hills Resources to power the firm's Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota. The refinery supplies Minnesota as well as the Upper Midwest with fuel, diesel and also jet fuel, heating fuels, asphalt, fertilizer and also the chemical-building blocks made use of in hundreds of everyday items.

The solar installment will certainly consist of at the very least 100,000 panels and also connect straight to the refinery procedures.

" With this project, we are improving our ability to offer the fuel individuals require in a way that will certainly enable us to be a lot more competitive today and also well into the future," claimed Jeff Ramsey, head of state and also CEO of Flint Hills Resources. "Our refinery procedures are among the very best worldwide, as well as we continue to innovate as well as locate new and also much better means to create as well as supply the fuel and also other petroleum-derived items that continue to be essential to the economic situation and also modern life."

The Flint Hills Resources solar setup will be situated on about 300 acres of the business's home adjacent to the Pine Bend refinery complicated in Rosemount. The facility's anticipated solar power production is enough electrical power to power more than 8,400 homes each year as well as has a peak capacity of roughly 30% of the refinery's power requires during optimal problems.

" This is an amazing project and interesting possibility to demonstrate just how solar can be seamlessly integrated into a big industrial facility with a high, regular power need, reliably and also at a reduced expense than standard, retail power," claimed Justin Bloch, head of state of solar at DEPCOM. "You don't commonly see utility-scale projects for a solitary facility and while this may be the very first project of its kind at this scale, it will not be the last. Distributed solar generation is confirming to be an affordable and also reliable source of power for lots of energy-intensive sectors."

The Flint Hills Resources solar installation will certainly be the firm's second source of on-site power generation complying with the conclusion of its combined warmth as well as power system in 2019, which supplies concerning 50 MW of electrical energy. On-site electrical energy generation stays clear of the power losses connected with long-distance transmission, makeover and also distribution of utility supply.