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In the mid-1980s Ascension Technology's principals, then working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed the Roof-Jack mounting system for attaching PV arrays to pitched, shingled residential roofs. The driving motivation of that effort was to simplify and reduce the cost of residential PV array balance-of-systems. Since that time the Roof-Jack mounting system has been used successfully in more than 40 pitched-roof PV array installations across the country. In anticipation of the installation of grid-connected PV system for the Environmental Protection Agency's Photovoltaic Demand Side Management demonstration (EPA PV-DSM), Ascension Technology undertook a similar engineering effort targeting cost reduction of balance-of-systems for flat-roof PV array installations. As a result, they have completed the design and fabrication of a mounting system which greatly simplifies the installation of PV arrays on typical flat-roof commercial buildings. This paper describes this mounting system, including loading analysis and experience with installations in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the country as part of the EPA PV-DSM demonstration
Published in:
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1993., Conference Record of the Twenty Third IEEE
Date of Conference: 10-14 May 1993
- Page(s):
- 1129 - 1133
- Meeting Date :
- 10 May 1993-14 May 1993
- Print ISBN:
- 0-7803-1220-1
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 4810910
- Conference Location :
- Louisville, KY
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/PVSC.1993.346965
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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