UCSD Elliot Field

Elliot Field's solar power system is one of five sites installed by Sullivan Solar Power for the UCSD, Campus Clean Renewable Energy Project. Complexities on this project included: minimizing disturbance of environmentally sensitive land, coordination with MCAS Miramar and tying the system in via existing medium-voltage overhead power lines. Ground disturbance was minimized through use of a proprietary ground-mounted racking system. With the help of UCSD, MCAS Miramar's Public Relations office was introduced to the project and the nature of the installation and potential impact on military flight patterns reviewed, to ensure an acceptable comfort level by all parties. Sullivan Solar Power, along with its consultants and sub-contractors, implemented medium-voltage design and equipment, to accommodate the PV system tie-in and backfeed of the existing overhead medium-voltage lines. The end result is an aesthetically-pleasing, rural solar generation plant. Consisting of (798) Sharp solar modules, which were manufactured in the United States, and a PV Powered inverter, this system is expected to produce 319,466 kWhrs per year.