8.4 KW PV & Solar Thermal Installation: Optima Engineering, Charlotte, NC – October 2008

Optima Engineering chose Argand for one of the first PV and solar thermal installations in the city of Charlotte. Located on the roof of their new LEED office building in Charlotte’s South End, Phase I of the PV project is made up of 39 Sharp 216 modules which feed DC power to two Sunny Boy 5000 watt inverters. The solar thermal portion is powered by an evacuated tube Apricus AP 30 and an 80 gallon storage tank.