Q2 2019 – July 15, 2019
Summerville, SC – As Hannah Solar Government Services’ (HSGS) Engineering and Operation departments progress with current projects, our Business Development team continues chasing business. This quarter, we were awarded projects by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The NASA award is a huge, multi-megawatt ground mount installation, as well as a parking canopy. This will be HSGS’ third project for the world’s leading space exploration agency.
HSGS was awarded and has begun designing several solar parking canopies for the FAA at the Honolulu Control Facility (HCF) located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The HCF is an air traffic control facility operated by the FAA and includes the Honolulu International Airport Control Tower and the Honolulu Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP), itself a combined Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON)- area control center unit covering the Pacific Ocean surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. The Honolulu HCF and CERAP oversee arrivals and departures of aircraft, manages pilots’ transition to and from cruise control, and directs movement of aircraft in and out of airspace through radar screens.
The funding for this renewable energy project comes from an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) between an Energy Service Company and the FAA Western Service Area Facilities in Hawaii and Guam. Through an ESPC, federal agencies can procure comprehensive solutions to improve facilities technology and infrastructure as well as renewable energy sources to power mission-critical operations with no upfront cost.
This will be the second solar energy system HSGS engineers for the FAA. In 2015, HSGS designed and installed a 502-kilowatt ground-mounted solar array for the Tucson International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower in Arizona. HSGS’ in-house team of engineers are in the process of designing the HCF’s parking canopies to total 461-kilowatts (kW), located outside of the CERAP building.
Hannah Solar Government Services is a veteran-owned business leading the way in global energy security by designing and building renewable energy and microgrid systems. HSGS specializes in project development, design, installation, and maintenance of commercial and utility scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and energy storage for government, commercial, and utility clients. HSGS’ breadth of experience includes projects that span the continental United States as well as overseas.
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