Tag Archives: micro
Should Utility Companies Fear Micro-Generation?
Utility companies, that’s who. David Roberts over at Grist has just posted a fantastic series stemming from a report by the Edison Electronic Institute’s that outlines how the success of small-scale renewables could make utility companies, as we know them, obsolete. Roberts doesn’t skimp on details about how utilities operate or why the Edison Institute’s [...]
Microchip intros grid-connected solar micro inverter reference design
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced a fully digitally controlled,Grid-Connected Solar Micro Inverter Reference Design with an advanced,high-efficiency topology. Complete documentation, including software,schematics and application note, can be downloaded for free today fromMicrochip’s website. The solar power industry is evolving to meet the requirements of a changing landscape, as it moves from a cottageindustry to mass [...]
Micro Inverters for Solar Homes
For the non-engineers out there who are interested in learning asmuch as possible about how solar panels work, here’s a brief overview of micro-inverters and what they can add to a solar installation. Solar panels need (micro)inverters to convert the electricity they produce to a type that can be used at home. Solar photovoltaic panels [...]
Good Looking Researchers Develop Micro Supercapacitor
A research team from France and US has developed a microsupercapacitor with remarkable potential to power mobile electronics,wireless sensor networks, biomedical implants, RFID tags and embeddedmicro sensors. The supercapacitor developed by the team uses electrodesmade of onion-like carbon, a material in which each individual particlemade up of concentric spheres of carbon atoms is 6-7 nanometers [...]
The Micro-Kitty Solar Sex Toy
Should I, shouldn’t I? I think, I should! This is what was goingthrough my mind when I first saw the Micro-Kitty. However, owing to itsgreen credentials it becomes my duty to bring to all eco-consciousreaders, who’re trying to green their lifestyle by using green gadgets,the Micro-Kitty, which is being touted to be the world’s first [...]
Helio Micro Utility Acquires Simple Energies
Helio Micro Utility (Helio mU), a developer and financier of solar energy projects, today announced the acquisition of Simple Energies LLC, arenewable energy project development company with a 50 megawatt globalpipeline. The agreement brings renewable energy veteran and SimpleEnergies CEO TyJagerson to the company’s executive management team. Jagerson, whowas a founding executive of SolFocus and [...]
Solar In A Box to Use Enphase Micro-Inverters
Ready Solar, the creator of the Solar in a Box AC solar energy business, has expandedits relationship with Enphase Energy Inc. Under the arrangement, ReadySolar has entered into an arrangement to use Enphase micro-invertersfor all of its pre-assembled Solar in a Box systems this year. ReadySolar began shipping Solar in a Box systems with Enphasemicro-inverters [...]
What’s the deal with Enphase?
TheEnphase Micro-inverter has built some serious buzz in the solar powerindustry since it solves many of the issues with using a centralinverter. By adding an inverter behind every solar panel, the DCelectricity generated by the solar panels is directly converted to lowvoltage AC at the solar panel level which increases the safety of thesystem. Also [...]
Tigo’s Solar Software
A whole slew of companies want to boost the output of solar panels. Tigo Energy says the answer is in software. Micro-inverter or panel electronics. It’s like the Microsoft-Apple debate in solar panels. Micro-inverter companies like Enphase Energy say they can increasethe power produced by solar panels by attaching an individual inverterto each one. With [...]