Cleared by Red Deer County council, the facility will be located near Queen Elizabeth II and Hwy 42. The site will include: - A 2 MW solar farm with ~ 3500 solar photovoltaic panels - 6 EV charging stations - Electric data processing onsite for digital transactions - Electric storage system - A rest area Local farmers also supported the project however, who likened it to growing electricity instead of plants. “I’m a farmer. I also harvest the sun with my plants. We’re growing plants but now we’re going to grow electricity instead,” said the Kaun family.
Is this a Level 2 facility or DCFC? Will charging be free like Ann Arbor's 2 Level 2 solar charging stations at the Farmer's Market?
Quotes from another article indicates DC ultra fast (6x350kW = ~ 2MW) I expect it will not be "free" as the cost to construct is $5m-$10M: " the project which would cost $5-10 million depending on final size... build a six-vehicle ultra-fast charging station powered by an adjacent two-megawatt, 3,500-panel solar farm on 5.6 acres. It will typically take five to 15 minutes to charge a vehicle. “We’ll also be building one between Dallas-Forth Worth and Houston simultaneously as we have plans to take this corporation international. “Our five-year plan is to have roughly 100 to 125 of these sites in Canada and the U.S,”
Looks like a solar farm that rezoned to allow for DC Fast charging. 3564 panels would imply something in the 550W+ bi-facial PV module range and 36 modules/group would get close to a 20kW commercial inverter at a 1:1 AC/DC ratio.
