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Tag: BOS

  • Grid-scale storage BOS costs to decline 41 percent by 2020

    These days, grid-scale energy storage balance of system (BOS) costs average $670 per kilowatt. These costs include hardware like inverters and containers, soft costs like customer acquisition and interconnection, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) expenses. According to the latest report from GTM Research, Grid-Scale Energy Storage Balance of SystemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • NEXTracker debuts NX Fusion, a pre-engineered AC power system bundle

    NEXTracker, a Flex company, just announced its latest innovation called NX Fusion. This new product is a one-stop-shop product bundle that comes as a pre-engineered AC power system solution that integrates a solar power plant’s most critical mechanical and electrical components into a single, repeatable tracker power block. NX Fusion includes NEXTracker’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Power optimizers v. microinverters: What’s different about these approaches to PV architecture?

    There are three main types of inverter topologies currently used in PV systems: traditional string inverters, microinverters and power optimizers. Since the traditional string inverter topology has a number of significant drawbacks, the industry is moving forward to distributed PV system architecture. The two leading technologies for distributed PV systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How to add flexibility to your solar cable management strategy

    Back in 2010, Snake Tray decided to install a PV system on its own roof. At that point, Snake Tray had been a manufacturer of trays for other industries for many years, with no ties to the solar industry. But after seeing a PV system installation up close, owner RogerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How to select conduit for your next commercial solar installation

    Today, designers and contractors face many options for protecting the electrical cables and wiring systems in commercial PV installations. One such option is conduit, which is a type of raceway or closed channel that guards wiring systems running through them against hazards over a system’s lifetime. There are many factorsRead More — Solar Builder magazine