Shone Farms Solar PV Design

Salas O’Brien partnered with Santa Rosa Junior College to re-purpose and redesign a PV system for Shone Farm. The college had over 950 solar panels in storage from an old 147kW solar array, removed from Plover Hall in 2015, and wanted to reuse them a new solar field array. The project started with the removal of panels from the roof of a campus building. These panels were stored for several years while the college developed a brownfield photovoltaic (PV) site plan. Once the plan was ready, the panels needed to be tested and repurposed for the single ground-mounted brownfield location at Shone Farm.

Our team provided architectural design services relating to shading, appearance, space availability, panel re-use, and payback analysis. In addition, our electrical design included electrical infrastructure modifications, connection details, utility interface and coordination.