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The PowerDish is an innovative solar power generating product that converts the sun's heat into electricity. The PowerDish couples Infinia's patented, low-cost and maintenance-free Stirling engine with a dish-style solar concentrator to create electric grid-ready solar power. It is an automatic, self-contained system ("plug-n-play") that produces clean, AC power without the use of water.
The PowerDish generates more electricity at a lower cost and within a smaller footprint than competing technologies.
PowerDish Advantages
- 24% peak conversion efficiency
- Performs in high ambient temperatures
- Very low maintenance – 25-year service life
- No plumbing or water needed, other than for periodic washing
- Suitable for deployment on sloped terrain and hills
- Minimal environmental impact
- Produces more power per acre, reducing land usage
- Remote/unattended operation
- Certified and grid-safe
- Easily recyclable - no byproducts
- Modular from a single unit to utility-scale arrays numbering in the 1,000's
- Automotive scale production keeps costs low
- Rapid ROI: financial returns begin immediately
- Deployment is faster than other concentrating solar thermal technologies
- Made in the USA
- 13,361 lbs of Carbon Dioxide
- 68.7 lbs of Nitrogen Oxide
- 33 lbs of Sulfur Dioxide
To put this in perspective: over the course of 1 year, 1MW of PowerDishes installed on 4 acres of land avoids the same amount of CO2 that 53,106 seedlings would sequester in 10 years!
PowerDish Technical Specifications
- 3.0 KW peak at 850 w/m2 DNI*
- 24% peak conversion efficiency
- Powered by a highly reliable, no-maintenance, free-piston Stirling engine
- Helium working fluid
- Sealed unit
- Closed-loop cooling system
- Precision dual-axis tracking
- Zero-alignment optics
- 240 VAC 1-phase, 208 VAC 3-phase
- 15.4 feet (4.7 m) diameter dish
- 21 feet (6.4 m) tall
- 1,900 lbs. (860 kg)
- CE Declaration of Compliance & CEC (California) Listed - in process; ETL Certified UL-1741 and IEEE 1547.1
- Five components easily transported and quickly assembled onsite: Heat Drive, Chassis, Reflector, Precision Dual-Axis Tracker & Power Electronics/Control System
- Quiet operation < 65 DbA at 10 meters (conversational volume)
- Requires minimal system maintenance. Coolant changed at 5-yr intervals, tracker oil every 10-yrs. Mirror cleaning to ensure maximum performance will be site-dependent
Full Infinia product warranty terms available upon request.
* At rated input direct normal insolation (DNI) >= 850 W/m2, at 20° C (68° F) ambient temperature, net power out at terminal, clean reflector, wind speed = 1m/s
The PowerDish produces electricity at prices that are competitive with other sources of solar power. Discounts are available for volume purchases; state or Federal incentives may also apply. Please contact us for pricing on your solar project.