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Abstract
The performance characteristics of the Saudi Solar Village Project, one of several projects sponsored by the Saudi Arabian-United States Program for Cooperation in the Field of Solar Energy (SOLERAS), a five-year jointly-funded $100M program, are presented in this paper. It is original and far reaching with respect to the scope and variety of solar technologies involved as well as the unique joint and cooperative manner in which the technology involved is developed and transferred. One of the program's objectives is to enhance the quality of life in rural areas within traditional ways of life. The Saudi Solar Village Project thus seeks to determine the feasibility of utilizing solar power to generate electricity in remote areas not served by existing electric power grid facilities. Details of the design of the 350 kW photovoltaic power system and its various subsystems are presented and the performance of the system and subsystems during initial acceptance testing of the system are discussed in this paper. The system, which to date has performed very well and in accordance with design specification, has combined both standard hardware and state-of-the-art concentrator photovoltaic subsystems, to yield the largest stand-alone tracking concentrator photovoltaic system in the world.
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