Tag: O&M

  • Alencon Systems joins Emerge Alliance for developing DC power distribution standards

    Alencon Systems LLC has been invited to join the Emerge Alliance, an open industry association developing standards leading to the rapid adoption of DC power distribution. Alencon Systems was selected for membership in this organization because of its unique String Power Optimizer and Transmitter product, the SPOT. Brian T. Patterson,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • O&M news: MaxGen Energy Services acquires commercial services of Next Phase Solar from Enphase

    MaxGen Energy Services, an independent operations and maintenance (O&M) company in the U.S, serving a large fleet of distributed generation (DG) and utility-scale solar power plants, has acquired the commercial services unit of Next Phase Solar, a provider of solar O&M services to a wide range of owners, equipment manufacturers,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SEIA’s selects Alencon Systems for its O&M Working Group

    Alencon Systems LLC been selected to join the recently formed Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Working Group. Alencon’s DC-DC optimizers and monitoring software are aimed at improving existing PV plant performance ratios — the ratio of the electricity generated to the electricity that would have been generated if theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Module-Level Electronics O&M Equation: Looking at the solutions to address MLPE issues

    The rapid evolution of module-level electronics has spiked performance, extended reliability and crushed manufacturing prices, but there is still a ways to go before the operation and maintenance of the technology is satisfactory to all the players involved. “When people talk about the business model for solar microinverters or optimizers,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • O&M: How to prep your solar sites to stay safe in harsh, dry climates

    In August, a deadly blaze in Santa Clarita, Calif., continued to rage, as firefighters did their best to put out flareups from the Sand Fire, located dangerously close to some of the nation’s largest solar projects (near Antelope Valley). The fast-moving fire scorched about 35,000 acres of drought-ravaged terrain, destroyedRead More — Solar Builder magazine