Tag: off-grid
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Wanna drop lead-acid? Everything you need to know to replace a lead-acid battery bank with LFP batteries
For homeowners who live off-grid, prepping for winter weather and months with lower solar production means ensuring that their solar+energy storage system is able to produce enough power to endure long, cold nights and periods of inclement weather. Most off-grid systems rely on flooded lead acid (FLA) batteries to provideRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Morningstar’s Energy Storage Partner Program keeps growing, now includes specs for 12 battery providers
At one of the solar industry’s most respected events — the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners education conference — Morningstar Corp. announced that its Energy Storage Partner Program (ESP) has more than doubled in size since being introduced just last September. Morningstar launched the ESP program to makeRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Riding the Wave: How Morningstar designed its software-first solar inverter for the lithium battery age
Solar inverters have improved so much over the years that they are all starting to seem comparable in power and performance these days, but a new entry hitting the market from Morningstar stands out because it wasn’t being built for “these days.” For starters, Morningstar isn’t a solar inverter company.Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Details on CyboEnergy’s new line of AC-assisted off-grid inverters
CyboEnergy a developed a family of AC-assisted off-grid CyboInverters that can run almost any kind of AC loads including air-conditioners, refrigerators, EV chargers, pumps, motors, appliances, lights, fans, TV, computers, etc., without batteries. Let’s look at how. CyboEnergy CEO George Cheng said this product allows a “battery-less off-grid solar systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Off-Grid Mountain Lodge Completed in Norway
About three years ago, Norway’s Tourism Association held a competition for designing the best self-catering mountain lodges, which they could place on hiking trails across the country. The winning lodges were the so-called Skåpet Mountain Lodges designed by Koko Architects. These lodges are made up of a group of off-grid cabins, which require very little…