During the University of Guam-sponsored Center for Island Sustainability Conference early this month, Green Energy Solutions Inc. Vice President Albert Wu said his company will introduce Photovoltaic panels.
Photovoltaics is the process of turning solar power into current electricity through panels that perform a photovoltaic effect, Wu said.
“Photovoltaics is more of a mix of renewable energy in different fields,” Wu said.
Together with MoTech Industries Inc., a solar power engineering company based out of Taiwan, a pilot project was launched in 2008 in Koror, Palau in which a parking structure was outfitted with PV solar panels.
Wu said an overhang was built in the existing parking structure to be able to accommodate the PV panels which redirected energy to a hospital adjacent to it.
“It serves two purposes. While you have structured energy, it also blocks shade for the cars so it’s a fantastic idea,” Wu said.
Apart from Palau, Wu said a number of PV projects have also been launched all over Micronesia.
Wu said several companies on Guam that offer alternative energy solutions like GESI and MoTech are either in the bidding process with the UOG, or are still within the designing phase and are expected to join the bidding process to start implementing PV on island.
