Featured in A sustainable growth? – 07-2013

Pump up the performance

PV project output: Draker’s Clarity DC tool monitors and analyzes solar PV performance on the DC side of the inverter. Draker’s CEO, Charles “Chach” Curtis, gives an overview of the product that won the company the Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Awards in April this year.

Many PV site operators rely on inverter-based monitoring of their array’s energy output. However, this type of monitoring is limited in the information it can deliver regarding the DC side of the inverter. For a typical 500 kW central inverter monitoring system, the DC side of the inverter is monitored at the zone level, constituting …

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