Power-One, a member of the ABB Group and the world's second largest designer and manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters, has announced that the company will showcase its first residential energy storage solution REACT (Renewable Energy Accumulator and Conversion Technology) at this years Solar Energy UK. From October 8 to 10, Power-One will also present its wide range of inverter products for small and residential PV installations in Birmingham, UK.
The company's first energy storage system REACT will be available in 2014 and consists of a 4.6kW single-phase grid connected Power-One inverter and a lithium-ion battery, providing 2kWh of usable capacity. The solution will allow home owners and landlords to store any energy produced by their PV installations for times with higher energy demands. Moreover, REACT is equipped with typical features, such as fast dual MPP trackers, offering maximum installation flexibility for optimal energy harvesting during changing weather and light conditions as well as a broad input voltage range and a top class efficiency due to the proven TL topology. In case of a blackout, operators benefit from basic load management outputs and auxiliary AC output.
Thanks to an integrated Ethernet port directly on the board, users are able to perform remote as well as local monitoring activities without further interfaces. As is usual for Power-One, the new, innovative product is designed for a long battery life cycle of over ten years. REACT can also be expanded up to three times its original size by adding additional battery modules.
"Looking at increasing electricity prices and reduced feed-in tariffs, self-consumption as well as energy independence will be the central issues for the residential PV market in the UK in the upcoming years," said Paolo Casini, Vice President, Marketing at Power-One." PV energy has to be available upon demand, since its feed-in to the grid is no longer worthwhile. With REACT we enable homeowners and landlords to adjust energy production and consumption with their needs, helping them to increase self-consumption and save money on their energy bills with the energy storage solution. Products of this kind will play a major role in the increasing spread and establishment of renewable energy systems."
The presentation of REACT will be accompanied by Power-One's inverter portfolio for small and residential PV installations: ranging from the companys smallest module inverters the AURORA MICRO-0.25 and the AURORA MICRO-0.3 with the related monitoring solution AURORA CDD as well as the single-phased AURORA UNO-2.0 and AURORA UNO-2.5 inverters to the popular three-phase string inverters AURORA TRIO-20.0 and 27.6. Especially designed for the residential market, Power-One's new AURORA TRIO string inverters with an output of 5.8, 7.5, and 8.5kW respectively, will also be on Display.
