Featured in Step on the gas – 12-2012

Improved grid stability

Smart inverters: With the popularity of PV prompting a move away from large centralized power generators to numerous decentralized small-scale generators, the latest generation of inverters have a significant part to play in modernizing grids for a renewables age, as TÜV Süd’s Christian Dirmeier and Ma Zhengdong explain.
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Switching today’s power supply to renewable energy is no small feat. The current structure of large, centralized power plants will have to be replaced by many small, decentralized renewable generating facilities. This requires the expansion of our electricity grids and the introduction of a new grid architecture. Inverters are located at the interface between solar …

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