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Monitoring has become essential for the solar industry and is almost always included for new PV plants. However, looking at the past, it can be said that the role of monitoring today is much more vital to PV plants. Even If PV plants were equipped with a monitoring system then, the control of operation data left much to be desired in most cases. Monitoring was often absent and plant owners often had not yet upgraded their PV plants.

Numerous factors could negatively influence the operation of a PV plant and could lead to a reduction or, in the worst case, to complete yield losses. The failure of one or several inverters, cable damage, errors during installation or reductions from one or several modules due to dirt and grime are only just a few examples. A professional monitoring system is required to recognize and fix such problems in time. Even better is to have a monitoring system that is attended to by a PV specialist along with a service and maintenance contract.

The Solar-Log™ is setting new international standards when it comes to monitoring photovoltaic plants and managing consumers and loads. Perfect and precise monitoring provides the basis for flawless operation. Solar-Log™ offers the perfect model for every plant size.

The Solar-Log™ monitoring system from SDS and a corresponding service and maintenance contact have proven themselves as a reliable and comfortable solution for plant operators. In addition to the cutting-edge technology required for monitoring PV plants, reliable partners are ready to provide their services. This is primarily achieved with the help of the Solar-Log™ WEB "Commercial Edition" online portal to constantly monitor the plant. When problems occur, the PV specialist can immediately arrange service calls or perform changes remotely. As a result, the forecasted power yields are ensured and the monitoring system is professionally installed from the start.

Especially for operators who have had their PV plants 10 years or more, it is particularly worthwhile to upgrade their plant with the Solar-Log™ monitoring system in combination with a service and maintenance contract (depending on the country and tariff). Especially since plant owners received much higher feed-in tariffs back then compared to today.

Based on a study with a focus on the questions: "Which losses occur with PV plants and when various components fail," SDS could determine the financial advantages of installing a professional monitoring system.The case examples of the study are presented in the Press Release (pdf-data) for download.
http://www.solar-log.com/en/news-press/news/news/detail-view/article/monitoring-mit-solar-logTM-fehler-schnell-erkennen-und-ertragsverluste-vermeiden.html

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Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (President & CEO Masahiko Yamawaki) received an order of 17 units of its SOLAR WARETM 1667 outdoor PV inverters with a salt damage prevention specification for a utility scale solar power plant currently under construction on Oahu island of Hawaii. The plant is being built by Eurus Energy America Corporation (San Diego, California), a U.S. subsidiary of Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation (based in Minato-ku, Tokyo), which is the world’s foremost company engaged in renewable energy electric utility business such as wind and solar power generation.
While the U.S. state of Hawaii is actively promoting the introduction of renewable energy, there are many cases in which utility scale solar facilities are installed near coastal areas, and up until now, PV inverters were generally installed inside an enclosure with air-conditioning to prevent salt damage. TMEIC has developed a PV inverter with improved environmental durability for places such as islands and coastal areas where salt damage prevention measures are required. In addition to high conversion efficiency and reliability characteristic of TMEIC’s existing products, the new PV inverter developed at this time realizes a reduction in initial costs and running costs by eliminating the need for air-conditioning, and in turn, contributes to maximizing revenue. TMEIC’s 17 units of PV inverters with a total capacity of 27.6MW were selected at this time in recognition of these performance benefits. Operation of the PV inverter units is scheduled to start from around autumn 2016.
The introduction of utility scale solar facilities is anticipated in areas such as on islands where electricity is expensive because grid parity* is easy to achieve. However, equipment for such areas requires salt damage prevention measures. At the same time, it is anticipated that TMEIC’s PV inverter can be utilized not only for coastal areas but also inland areas where salt damage may occur depending on the direction of the wind.
TMEIC continues to strengthen its capabilities to respond to various installation conditions progressively being introduced throughout the world.

1. Characteristics of SOLAR WARETM 1667
a) Feasible outdoor specification also responds to areas where salt damage may occur in such places as islands or coastal areas.
b) World’s highest level of power conversion efficiency of 99.0%.
c) Hybrid cooling system employed with both heat pipe and cooling fan requires no air-conditioning.
d) Compliant with UL certification and IEC standards.

2. Customer Benefits
a) Can be installed in such areas as islands or coastal areas.
b) Reduction of operation costs and improvement of maintainability because PV inverter does not require air-conditioning, which in turn reduces power generation costs.
c) High conversion efficiency and reduction of power consumption contributes to maximizing revenue.

* Grid parity refers to a state in which power generation costs via renewable energy become the same level or lower versus existing power costs (electricity costs, etc.).
https://www.tmeic.com/

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