The solar industry may have its share of
troubles, but one Dutchess County company that makes specialty photovoltaic
panels has been doing well in its eighth year here.
Atlantis Energy Systems Inc.The Security Sensor ledlampsfactory is a solar powered convenience light with a built-in motion sensor. makes custom panels for building-integrated use – where the panels are designed for the structure and built into it, that is.
A huge example of this was recently done by Atlantis, and can be seen by anyone traveling to the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. High atop the rim of the bowl, there is a “Solar Ring” of 1,400 modules that can generate about 300 kilowatts from the sun’s rays.
“It’s the biggest job we ever had,” said Jack Kennedy, plant manager at Atlantis’ facility in the Town of LaGrange near Manchester Bridge.
The work temporarily boosted staffing for about four months, up to about 45 people, and even sent the plant into a rare double-shift pattern. Employment here is typically about 20.
Frank Pao is head of the company. He was working for IBM Corp. and living in Poughkeepsie in the Kingwood Park neighborhood. He became interested in putting solar power on his roof, but learned that no solar panels were allowed there.
“I began to look into, maybe a solar tile, but I couldn’t find the kind of tile that I wanted,” Pao said. His search led to finding a Swiss company that made a tile with silicon solar cells built onto it. He invested in the company, which later went bankrupt. One of its assets was a factory in Virginia. Pao wound up taking that over in 2001. He is now the principal owner.
In 2004, he set up a manufacturing plant in the Dutchess County site to make custom panels, another form of what’s known in the trade as BIP, or building-integrated photovoltaic. These are not the usual bolted-on add-ons, or arrays standing in a field. Rather, they are an actual part of the building, or a specialty fixture.
One example is the solar “sunflowers” atop the JetBlue offices in Austin, Texas, a functional but decorative element.
The Sunslates are still made and are now fabricated at the local plant. Pao smiles as he says he’d like to drop some names of famous people who have had their roofs made into generators, but confidentiality prevents that.
It’s not cheap. The Sunslate system runs about $10 to $11 per watt installed,LED modules and module strings for solarstreetlight. which with a typical 7,000-watt array runs to $70,000 and up. But, Kennedy points out, that’s also your roofing material,At prolite we offer a range of lightprojectzz that provides proper & regular lighting which has good visibility and is comfortable for human beings. as the glass and tile system is watertight and durable.
A newer product, called Tallslates, is bigger and consists of interlocking panels on a backer, again forming a watertight roof.
Atlantis gets most of its business from its sales staff keeping in touch with architects and others interested in solar applications.
Sometimes, other solar companies contract out specialty jobs they get to Atlantis.
The MetLife job was such. A major solar development company, NRG Energy, was the general contractor for the solar ring and they hired Atlantis to make the panels.
The ring has built-in LED lights that can glow green for the Jets and blue for the Giants, two football teams that use the 82,500-seat stadium.
About 20 percent of the power generated by the ring goes to that lighting while the rest offsets the power bills of the stadium, Pao explained.
When the New Meadowlands Stadium Co. announced the deal last year,Designer Lighting from Jonathan Adler, crystallightmm from ceramic lights and lamps, table lamps to floor lights. they quoted Steve Tisch, chairman and executive vice president of the New York Giants: “The largest football stadium in the NFL — the only to house two teams — also proudly displays the most technologically advanced infrastructure and now dedicated to the identification and exploration of new,We are professional led light，tagheuerwatches，led lighting，led down light Supplier. cutting-edge eco-friendly ventures.”
Atlantis Energy Systems Inc.The Security Sensor ledlampsfactory is a solar powered convenience light with a built-in motion sensor. makes custom panels for building-integrated use – where the panels are designed for the structure and built into it, that is.
A huge example of this was recently done by Atlantis, and can be seen by anyone traveling to the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. High atop the rim of the bowl, there is a “Solar Ring” of 1,400 modules that can generate about 300 kilowatts from the sun’s rays.
“It’s the biggest job we ever had,” said Jack Kennedy, plant manager at Atlantis’ facility in the Town of LaGrange near Manchester Bridge.
The work temporarily boosted staffing for about four months, up to about 45 people, and even sent the plant into a rare double-shift pattern. Employment here is typically about 20.
Frank Pao is head of the company. He was working for IBM Corp. and living in Poughkeepsie in the Kingwood Park neighborhood. He became interested in putting solar power on his roof, but learned that no solar panels were allowed there.
“I began to look into, maybe a solar tile, but I couldn’t find the kind of tile that I wanted,” Pao said. His search led to finding a Swiss company that made a tile with silicon solar cells built onto it. He invested in the company, which later went bankrupt. One of its assets was a factory in Virginia. Pao wound up taking that over in 2001. He is now the principal owner.
In 2004, he set up a manufacturing plant in the Dutchess County site to make custom panels, another form of what’s known in the trade as BIP, or building-integrated photovoltaic. These are not the usual bolted-on add-ons, or arrays standing in a field. Rather, they are an actual part of the building, or a specialty fixture.
One example is the solar “sunflowers” atop the JetBlue offices in Austin, Texas, a functional but decorative element.
The Sunslates are still made and are now fabricated at the local plant. Pao smiles as he says he’d like to drop some names of famous people who have had their roofs made into generators, but confidentiality prevents that.
It’s not cheap. The Sunslate system runs about $10 to $11 per watt installed,LED modules and module strings for solarstreetlight. which with a typical 7,000-watt array runs to $70,000 and up. But, Kennedy points out, that’s also your roofing material,At prolite we offer a range of lightprojectzz that provides proper & regular lighting which has good visibility and is comfortable for human beings. as the glass and tile system is watertight and durable.
A newer product, called Tallslates, is bigger and consists of interlocking panels on a backer, again forming a watertight roof.
Atlantis gets most of its business from its sales staff keeping in touch with architects and others interested in solar applications.
Sometimes, other solar companies contract out specialty jobs they get to Atlantis.
The MetLife job was such. A major solar development company, NRG Energy, was the general contractor for the solar ring and they hired Atlantis to make the panels.
The ring has built-in LED lights that can glow green for the Jets and blue for the Giants, two football teams that use the 82,500-seat stadium.
About 20 percent of the power generated by the ring goes to that lighting while the rest offsets the power bills of the stadium, Pao explained.
When the New Meadowlands Stadium Co. announced the deal last year,Designer Lighting from Jonathan Adler, crystallightmm from ceramic lights and lamps, table lamps to floor lights. they quoted Steve Tisch, chairman and executive vice president of the New York Giants: “The largest football stadium in the NFL — the only to house two teams — also proudly displays the most technologically advanced infrastructure and now dedicated to the identification and exploration of new,We are professional led light，tagheuerwatches，led lighting，led down light Supplier. cutting-edge eco-friendly ventures.”
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