Power Inverter Articles & Analysis

The California Independent System Operator (ISO) Board of Governors approved proposals at its recent meeting (11/14) to improve the grid's interconnection process and the reliability of the transmission system.The first approved proposal directs the ISO to follow recommendations developed by a task force assembled by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to configure power ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter, more powerful and more efficient. At the core of this development is wide bandgap material made of silicon carbide with qualities superior to standard semiconductor materials. Power inverters convert ...

By Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will test power inverters submitted to the Little Box Challenge presented by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society. The Challenge is an open competition to build smaller power inverters for use in solar power systems. The winner of the $1 million prize will have designed and built a kilowatt-scale inverter with the ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Sungrow's SG30KTL has been awarded a double-A grade evaluation ("Sehr Gut") by Photon Lab for both medium and high irradiation, commendably following its siblings, Sungrow's 4kW and 15kW inverters. So far, the SG30KTL has climbed to 5th in the Photon ranking of all tested inverters and 1st of all Asian inverters, as well as the 1st in all string inverters with power above 20kW. The SG30KTL, ...

By Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.

Recently, Sungrow's SG15KTL, SG20KTL and SG30KTL PV inverters successfully passed the extensive reliability tests of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies ("VDE") laboratory ASIG, a complementary long-term operation reliability test based in Augsburg, Germany. So far in the European market, only a few inverters have passed the ASIG test. Focusing on the ...

By Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.

The company will install 96 E1.37 MW inverters, made by Gamesa Electric, at two solar power projects being developed in southern India Gamesa has entered into an agreement with Indian developer Atria Power for the EPC construction of 130 MW of solar power at two developments located in the regions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, in southern India. It is the largest solar order ...

By Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

TwitterFacebookGoogle + Send Save Print IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), recently (4/26) announced the publication and availability of IEEE 1547-2018 Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) with Associated Electric Power Systems Interfaces. IEEE 1547 provides technical specifications for the interconnection and ...

By Smart Grid Observer

On the 21st October, a historic event took place in the province of San Luis in Argentina, namely the inauguration of the first PV solar farm in the region. The Terrazas del Portezuelo plant, constructed by the Argentinian company Coradir, was commissioned by Ingeteam personnel in September. The PV plant, which is a clear example of the support and investment in clean, environmentally-friendly ...

By Ingeteam

Power management company Eaton today announced its Power Xpert Solar 1670-kilowatt (kW) inverter is now certified to meet Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1741-2010 standard by Intertek. The certification is required for inverter connection to the electrical grid, and demonstrates the reliable and safe performance of the Eaton solar inverter technology in utility applications. “The UL ...

By Eaton Corporation

The solution consists of more than 200 active harmonic filters and reactive power compensation devices that are being deployed in part of the city’s rapid transit system to eliminate harmonic distortion, stabilize the power network and help reduce the subway system’s power consumption. Harmonics have long been a problem in the Shanghai metro system leading, among other things, to the early and ...

By ABB

SMA America, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of global solar technology leader SMA Technology AG, offers residential solar installers the ability to expand their services and customer base with the innovative Sunny Tower. The SMA product allows installers to apply their existing experience and tools in the residential market to commercial-grade projects.“The Sunny Tower is an ideal product for ...

By SMA America, LLC

Solar Power World, the solar industry’s leading media resource with its print publication, web site and social media outlets, today announced the opening of the application process for its Top 100 Solar Contractors. This definitive list offers solar contractors a look at how they stack up against their peers across all solar markets —residential, commercial and utility systems. ...

By Solar Power World

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today introduced the Power XpertTM Solar 1500 kilowatt (kW) inverter for utility-scale, solar applications. The Power Xpert Solar inverter converts direct current (DC) power into clean alternating current (AC) and is designed to improve plant levelized cost of energy (LCOE), maximize customers’ energy harvest, operate reliably in harsh ...

By Eaton Corporation

Today, 18 finalist teams for the Little Box Challenge, presented by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society, converged at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to have their power inverters tested as part of a $1 million competition to build smaller devices for use in solar power systems. "We're very curious to see how the teams are tackling the different ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Power management company Eaton today announced that the California Energy Commission (CEC), the state's primary energy policy and planning agency, has certified Eaton’s Power Xpert® Solar 1670-kilowatt (kW) inverter to operate at an industry-leading 98.5 percent efficiency. The certification demonstrates the inverter’s ability to help the solar industry advance grid parity by ...

By Eaton Corporation

Most powerful central inverter of Sputnik Engineering meets the criteria of the BDEW Medium-Voltage Directive. Biel, 18 August 2011 : Newly commissioned grid-coupled inverters equipped with a direct medium-voltage connection in Germany must demonstrate their compliance with the directive “Generator plants on the medium-voltage network” by means of a unit certificate of the BDEW ...

By Solar Max

The Slovenian wholesaler Sonel has built the largest PV plant equipped with SolarMax inverter in the northern Slovenian town of Gornji Petrovci. With a total capacity of 81 kilowatts the free-standing system is also the largest in the region Prekmurje. In spring, Sonel and Sputnik Engineering will officially inaugurate the plant. Sonel employee Andreja Knez expects that the system will produce ...

By Solar Max

Industrial lighting specialist Larson Electronics reveals their newly designed Class 1 Division 1 explosion proof string lights with a portable power transformer, which inverts high voltage input to low voltage output for powering the hand lamps. The EPL-SL-8X75-12V-TXF explosion proof string light set from Larson Electronics contains a total of eight work lights that are equipped with aluminum ...

By Larson Electronics LLC

Today in Hemau, in the district of Regensburg, will see the commissioning of the first megawatt station built by Sputnik Engineering, a Swiss inverter manufacturer. The 632 photovoltaic (PV) plant was installed on open land by SolaStrom Systems GmbH, a system integrator based in Augsburg. At this site the usual low-voltage transformer (400V) is unnecessary because two of a new type of SolarMax ...

By Solar Max

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) is pleased to announce two sales orders with a combined value of approximately $171,000 for Go Power! Pure Sine Wave Inverters, a proprietary mobile power product within the Carmanah portfolio. The inverters are being deployed in over 600 fleet vehicles operated by a major US utility provider undergoing a fleet revitalization project. The South East ...

By Carmanah Technologies Corporation