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The 1500 Volt modus operandi

Utility-scale power plants: The PV sector is stepping up its game towards 1,500 volts. Manufacturers through the supply chain are now catering towards this voltage ramp-up that promises lower balance-of-system costs and in turn lower LCOE.

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Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

29 Jul 2015

The “next generation of PV power plants” is underway with system changes being made to increase DC system voltage to 1,500. As IHS’s Cormac Gilligan predicted in pv magazine (05/2015), it is the natural evolution of utility-scale PV to go 1,500 V. IHS anticipates this trend will arrive by the end of this year. And so …

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