Solar awards nominations
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Energy Usage Enabling Award
Locus Energy Virtual Irradiance Tool
LOCUS ENERGY’S Virtual Irradiance™ VI tool provides PV power plant managers with a means of measuring the amount of sunlight that is striking the ground at a particular time and location.
Using historical and real-time data from weather stations and satellite imagery Locus Energy’s proprietary algorithms provide high quality data on solar irradiance for any location in the continental United States.
VI provides a truly accurate assessment of how much energy a system should be producing based on the amount of sunlight that is available to the panels. When used with other modelling data such as the type of panel or inverter such data is invaluable.
This is true not only for system stakeholders, who can use it to identify and rectify problems, but also for financial institutions which can use the data as a means of ranking the value of solar PV assets.
Another advantage of VI is that it reduces the need for on-site sensors which may be prohibitively expensive for small- to medium-sized systems. For larger systems at which on-site sensors are installed VI validates sensor data which can become skewed due to soiling or have gaps due to downtime or other site problems. As solar becomes increasingly common VI is also expected to become an important tool in helping utilities integrate solar into the electricity grid. VI is part of a suite of analytics tools that Locus is developing called PVIQ.
Co recently announced the addition of Smart Carbon as a standard feature to its Industrial and Premium flooded battery lines.
Smart Carbon is a proprietary Trojan formula which provides improved performance when the batteries operate in PSOC enhancing overall battery life in off-grid and unstable grid applications where the batteries are under charged on a regular basis. Along with increased life in a partial state of charge Trojan’s Smart Carbon proprietary formula also provides improved charge acceptance and faster recharge in PSOC applications.
Trojan Battery Company
Smart Carbon
TO ADDRESS the impact of Partial State of Charge (PSOC on cycling batteries in renewable energy (RE inverter backup and telecom applications Trojan Battery
With batteries now being one of the most expensive components of these systems it is critical to maximize the life of the battery bank in order to reduce total cost of ownership. To address the issue of PSOC
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Trojan understands that batteries used in harsh RE telecom and inverter backup systems are regularly cycled at PSOC due to the intermittency of solar generation an unstable grid or to minimize operating costs of a hybrid Charge-Discharge-Cycle (CDC system. Operating at PSOC can quickly diminish the overall life of a lead acid battery which results in frequent and costly battery replacements.
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