photovoltaic monitoring News
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Major product portfolio expansion in the area of energy distribution: new re-sidual current transformers as well as intelligent AC/DC current transformers
In the field of heavy cur-rent measurement, current transformers are essential. Among the important parameters are reliability and accuracy, to guarantee very lengthy service life. A measurement device like this one from Camille Bauer Metrawatt AG, developed and manu-factured in Switzerland, normally always needs one current transformer for each conductor, which is why these products are so ...
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Heliatek sets new OPV world record efficiency of 13.2%
Heliatek R&D teams reached a record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an OPV multi-junction cell, setting a new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells. The measurement was independently confirmed by Fraunhofer CSP. Thanks to the excellent low light and high temperature behavior of the organic semiconductor, the electricity ...
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Sputnik Engineering, the Swiss inverter manufacturer, launches the MaxVisio touchscreen unit
MaxVisio displays the daily values of a photovoltaic plant in a single view. Sputnik Engineering launched the new display unit shortly before Christmas. It features a colour touch-screen and can be hung on the wall or placed on a desktop. It can display both the actual output of a photovoltaic plant as well as a record of its monthly, yearly, and total outputs. If the MaxMeteo sensor is also ...
By Solar Max
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SMA Sunny PRO Club Expands Regional Forum Program, Adds New Dates Through 2012
As popular demand for SMA Regional Forum events continues, additional dates have been announced through 2012. SMA’s Sunny PRO Club—a membership-based professional partnership program for solar installers—will host six Regional Forums during the latter half of 2012. The remaining events—free with pre-registration—are planned for select U.S. cities, with the next ...
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Two NREL Scientists Named to Highly Cited Researcher List
Two scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been included in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Research list for the thousands of citations of their work by fellow researchers over the past decade. The Highly Cited Researcher list represents some of the world’s leading scientific minds. Researchers earned the distinction by writing the ...
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Solar research earns three prestigious R&D 100 awards
A technique to turn silicon into ink, a faster way to assess solar cells, and a better furnace for heating solar cells – all developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory – have been named among this year’s most significant innovations by R&D Magazine. The three prestigious awards bring to 50 the number of R&D 100 awards ...
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SMA’s Sunny Portal Reaches 100 Terawatt Hours of Clean Solar Energy Monitoring on Earth Day
SMA’s Sunny Portal has reached a milestone achievement of 100 terawatt hours (TWh) of solar energy monitoring on Earth Day. This achievement, which affirms Sunny Portal’s status as a leading Web-based PV monitoring platform, is the equivalent of avoiding more than 70 million tons of carbon dioxide from entering Earth’s atmosphere. “Reaching 100 TWh of energy in ...
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Three months after opening, TÜV Rheinland’s solar test centre in Cologne is operating at full capacity
Three months after opening, TÜV Rheinland’s new solar test centre in Cologne has now reached full capacity. For solar module manufacturers, this means that test times have been roughly halved compared to the previous solar laboratory. The processing times for a full type approval and certification of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules in accordance with IEC 61215, for example, takes ...
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Efficiency record of 17.6% on flexible CIGS solar cell on plastic developed at EMPA
Flexible thin film solar cells on polymer film with a new record efficiency of 17.6% have been developed by the scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA). The conversion efficiency record has been independently certified by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany. Scientists under the leadership of Dr. Ayodhya N. ...
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Trianel to boost German sustainability exploring BaxEnergy intelligence
BaxEnergy and Trianel have signed an agreement to evaluate ESP® competitive features and strengths. The German joint venture utility develops, builds and operates renewable energy power plants representing a gross capacity of more than 700MW. Together with Trianel, municipal utilities and regional energy providers are investing in the expansion of renewable energies across Germany. Trianel ...
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New section on energy and power plant analysis on the Metrohm website
The new Metrohm website now gives a comprehensive overview of the topic «energy» from the perspective of applied chemical analysis. Among others, the new web pages address challenges such as energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), fuel cell performance, corrosion monitoring and prevention, and others. Numerous applications (free download) make the new website a valuable ...
By Metrohm AG
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From photovoltaic systems, to battery storage and electromobility: energy eff i- ciency in direct current systems
(Wohlen AG, March 2018) The trend towards efficient utilization of limited resources has led to the introduction of a host of activities for energy efficiency improvement. For DC systems especially, monitoring their performance and error-free operation is fundamental. Photovoltaic and battery storage systems are particularly relevant here and the focus is also evidently on the power supplies of ...
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Locus Energy Launches the LGate 310 - the First Smart Meter Designed for Light Commercial Solar Monitoring
Locus Energy has launched the LGate 310 -- a digital smart meter optimized for monitoring light commercial solar photovoltaic installations. The combined power meter and datalogger makes it easier than ever to remotely monitor and maintain PV systems. Together with the web-based Locus Platform that provides an overview dashboard as well as patented analytics, the LGate 310 enables solar fleet ...
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Energy Technology Ventures, a GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips Joint Venture, Invests in Israeli Wastewater-to-Electricity Company Emefcy
Energy Technology Ventures - a GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips joint venture - is making its first non-US and first water-related investment by providing capital to Emefcy Ltd, an Israeli company that can turn wastewater treatment from a huge energy drain to an electricity generator. Emefcy's technology uses naturally occurring bacteria in an electrogenic bioreactor to treat ...
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SMA Announces Availability of Extended Temperature Range Sunny Boy Inverters for Canadian Solar Market
SMA Canada has released a temperature-hardened version of its Sunny Boy, the world’s most popular solar inverter. Designed specifically for the Canadian PV market, the new Sunny Boy 5000-US, 6000-US, 7000-US and 8000-US are ideal for residential and commercial applications and feature an extended operating temperature range to -40 Celsius. “These new inverters include all of the ...
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World’s Largest Web-Based PV Monitoring Solution Reaches 50,000 Registered Solar Systems
With 50,000 registered solar arrays in more than 100 countries, including the United States and Canada, SMA’s Sunny Portal is the world’s largest Web platform for monitoring, managing and presenting photovoltaic systems. That equates to 3.5 gigawatts of power monitored via the Sunny Portal Web site and iPhone application, both free services. “SMA’s Sunny Portal is ...
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SMA Upgrades Efficiency, Power Output of Sunny Island Inverters
SMA has released its new Sunny Island 4548-US and 6048-US off-grid solar inverters for the North American market. Expanding upon the proven technology of the Sunny Island 5048-US, these devices reach a new maximum efficiency of 96 percent and CEC-weighted efficiencies up to 94.5 percent, as well as up to a 20 percent increase in power output for the Sunny Island 6048-US. The Sunny Island 4548-US ...
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SMA Provides Solar Installers Increased Flexibility with New 30-48 kW Sunny Tower Configurations
SMA has expanded the capacity of its Sunny Tower inverter system, which is ideal for commercial-scale PV arrays, to include 30 through 48 kW configurations. With the Sunny Tower, solar professionals can now install any combination of SMA Sunny Boy 5000-US, 6000-US, 7000-US and 8000-US inverters to create a custom power output based on the overall PV system design. These Sunny Boy models are ...
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ASTM E2848 - 11 standard test method for reporting photovoltaic non-concentrator system performance
Because there are a number of choices in this test method that depend on different applications and system configurations, it is the responsibility of the user of this test method to specify the details and protocol of an individual system power measurement prior to the beginning of a measurement. Unlike device-level measurements that report ...
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SMA America Partners with Sacramento State University and IEEE to Discuss Grid-Tied Solar Power
Sacramento State University, in conjunction with the IEEE Sacramento Valley Section and the SMA Solar Academy, recently held an educational seminar for engineering students and business professionals on the university campus.The event was hosted by the California Smart Grid Center in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Sacramento State and featured a one day training course and ...
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