Bryan Adam’s recent concert in Summerside, P.E.I., was powered entirely by solar energy
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Summerside is claiming the title of getting North America’s first live performance powered completely by photo voltaic vitality.
Town has mentioned it used its present vitality infrastructure, coupled with expertise from associate BluWave-ai, to offset the additional vitality used at Credit score Union Place in the course of the Aug. 31, Byran Adams live performance.
Mike Thususka, Summerside’s director of financial improvement, mentioned the town determined to undertake this initiative as a technique to showcase what its rising inexperienced vitality infrastructure is able to.
“Summerside is dedicated to rising our net-zero financial system and main P.E.I.’s clear tech improvements,” mentioned Thususka.
BluWave-ai’s expertise has been utilized by the town since 2018 to, amongst different issues, improve the effectivity of the municipally-owned Summerside Electrical grid, together with the micro-grid utilized by Credit score Union Place. That grid consists of various photo voltaic panels and a battery system to retailer any additional vitality they produce. The mixture of the 2 methods helps save the town greater than $100,000 per 12 months in electrical energy prices for CUP.
Main as much as the live performance, BluWave-ai’s cloud-based synthetic intelligence saved 496 hours (kWh) of photo voltaic vitality within the CUP’s battery, then used it to energy Eastlink Area, contained in the CUP facility, in the course of the live performance, from 8 to 11 p.m. The live performance itself used about 454.5 kWh.
“As a testomony to the robustness and adaptability of the BluWave-ai vitality optimization platform, and with very quick discover, the system was capable of handle vitality use on the area to produce to live performance with 100 per cent photo voltaic vitality.” mentioned Devashish Paul, CEO of BluWave-ai.
Along with the CUP micro-grid, Summerside’s stock of inexperienced vitality infrastructure features a 12-megawatt wind vitality farm, its Warmth for Much less house heating system program, a small fleet of electrical automobiles and the nonetheless below development Summerside Sunbank mission, a 21-megawatt solar energy plant and battery storage system.
