Carlisle's CES200 Rooftop Photovoltaic Installation

This time-elapsed video documents the construction of Carlisle's solar photovoltaic demonstration center on the roof of their distribution facility in Carlisle, PA.

This demonstration site, named the CES200, features three separate photovoltaic technologies - Solyndra (CIGS), Uni-Solar (thin film a-Si) and ET Solar (c-Si) on various roof constructions. In total there are six different system installations featured on this roof. Carlisle installed this sytem to better understand installation methods, interactions with variuos roofing systems and to monitor long-term performance.

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Science & Technology

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• solar
• photovoltaic
• energy
• power
• green
• roof
• building
• solar energy
• pennsylvania
• environment