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Tag: Inverters and eBOS

  • Distributed, modular or central utility solar PV inverters? It depends on these factors

    History is littered with a bevy of debates primed for discussion in the friendly confines of your local speakeasy. Do you prefer the designated hitter or pitchers who hit? Ford or Chevy? Pearl Jam or Nirvana? In the utility PV industry, that pub argument often comes down to central orRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SMA America now a supplier for GRID Alternatives

    SMA America is now a national equipment supplier for GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer. The partnership will build on the organizations’ mutual goals to extend access to clean, affordable energy technologies in communities across the United States. SMA will do in-kind equipment donations as well as trainingsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunSpec Alliance update on work to simplify rapid shutdown signaling systems

    In a few short years, the industry’s concept of a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) has morphed from an uncomplicated rooftop solar PV system that reduces your electricity bill to an incredibly complicated apparatus that does what the old system did plus stores energy, keeps the lights on at night orRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Power to the PV People: How Evergrid keeps home solar up when the grid goes down

    Nothing confuses a grid-tied solar newbie more than the fact that they won’t have power when the grid goes down. Standard inverters need the grid to maintain the AC voltage waveform and provide surge power, and without the grid, a standard inverter can’t function. Sorry, that’s just the way itRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The case for large-scale solar plant repowering-as-a-service

    Operations and maintenance (O&M) is mostly about keeping the status quo of a solar plant. Fix issues. Prevent failures. Hit benchmarks. But in a tech-driven industry, is maintaining the status quo of a decades-old legacy site the best strategy? Many plant owners and operators are facing this question as theirRead More — Solar Builder magazine