Featured in Supersized Solar – 05-2015

Inverting the status quo

Inverters at large-scale: The dominance of central inverters in utility-scale solar plants is being slowly eroded by improvements in three-phase string inverter technology. As costs shrink and system owners demand greater energy yield and monitoring performance from their arrays, will this inside-out trend prove sustainable in the long term?

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Ian Clover

22 Apr 2015

Cowed by unforgiving market demands, the solar industry is inherently conservative. Progress, although swift and exponential in recent years, is rather linear; the sector’s more unique approaches to harvesting solar energy usually relegated to outlier status until a thorough analysis has been conducted. Within this exclusive club, however, the wiggle room is sufficiently generous to …

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