American Electric Technologies, a Houston-based worldwide supplier of power delivery solutions for conventional as well as industries utilizing renewable energy, declared that TUV Rheinland has confirmed the successful completion of solar inverter tests performed by its 1 MW 1000 V Integrated Solar Inversion Station (ISIS).
AETI has developed the first 1 MW 1000 Volt Integrated Solar Inversion Station (ISIS(TM)) to pass the solar inverter tests as outlined in UL 1741-2010.
The inverter has completed the tests defined in UL 1741-2010 and achieved the required UL Standard prescribed for its usage with distributed energy resources.
The increased level of utility-scale solar market and project developments in the U.S. has prompted the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies and North American Utilities to switch over to 1000 V solar project designs from the present 600 V designs to achieve increased level of efficiency with lower level of investment. There has also been a dearth of UL certified 1000 V 1 MW solar inverters.
The new ISIS system designed for the purpose offers reliable performance and enables easy integration with utility grids and requires lower level of investment than normal solar inverters. The inverter system built with low level of cooling losses collects a maximum of 15% more watts per solar string. The all included liquid cooled 1 MW solar inverter with its 99% efficiency, a 1000 KVA transformer and a utility interconnect system is specifically designed to enable the project to bring down the installation time and costs.
The ISIS incorporates a multi-level smart cooling construction, a boxing to endure widest functional temperature range and a dependable solar inverter. The inverter incorporates utility specific interconnect features and comprise broadest power factor recompense capacities VAR compensation.