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A lifetime of monitoring

Central inverters: The development of the solar industry has brought with it greater understanding of lifetime costs – how to calculate them, measure them, and lower them. The onus on inverter suppliers to deliver such metrics quickly and transparently has grown, with central inverters keen to show their worth in this maturing field.

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Ian Clover

06 Feb 2017

When totting up the cost sheet of a typical large-scale solar farm, developers could be forgiven for raising their eyebrows at the capital expenditure (Capex) required for a central inverter. These big, unwieldy, expensive pieces of kit were long seen as a necessary upfront cost that was rarely called upon to prove its worth, but …

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