SNEAK PEEK
Earlier this year, Eaton and its partner Enel North America completed a clean energy project at Eaton’s manufacturing facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and is soon ready to break ground on a new project in the country. At the Arecibo plant, Eaton makes circuit breakers, which play a critical role in the supply chain for electronics in the region (Figure 1). Driven largely by the region’s high energy costs and the risk of severe weather, the Arecibo manufacturing facility was clear choice for a microgrid-plus-storage project. The microgrid system of 5-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays, approximately 1.1 MW of battery storage, and existing on-site generators support more than half of the facility’s energy needs. The system is expected to generate more than 9,000 MW of renewable power annually.
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