Sep 16 2010
Advanced Energy, a company that provides power and control engineering for the manufacture of thin-film and solar power production, declared that PV Powered, Inc, a company recently acquired by it, has been chosen to uphold the developmental operations financed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP) and managed by Sandia National Laboratories.
The endeavor is aimed at reducing the obstacles faced in linking solar power with the utility grids of North America. The third and last stage of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) is concentrated in the commercial use of solar technologies formulated during the earlier two stages.
The SEGIS program introduced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the year 2008 as a division of its SETP is aimed at improving the technologies that will establish the cost effective solar power production in comparison with other traditional power production technologies. The important growth targets for SETP includes introduction of effective methods to increase energy yields of the PV system and the inverter, improved infrastructure know-how that will allow easy linking of PV systems at various places to network with power utilities and advanced power control functions that will enable the utility companies to supervise the distributed power sources network.
For the purpose of removing the currently viewed barriers and to improve the acceptance of PV technology, the PV Powered set up team of experts from the industry which includes Northern Plains Power Technologies, Schweizer Engineering Laboratories, Sensus and Portland General Electric.