Development of new technology can improve the efficiency of solar inverters

The inverter is silent workhorses conversion power, such as solar panels and batteries into usable power supplies. There is a solar cell panel around the pv inverter considerable innovation in recent years, due to a number of solar roofs have begun to move from a single large central inverter to be embedded into a smaller on each panel "micro-inverters." 

Now a year and a half old chip startup Empower Microsystems has been pushing even farther, solar inverter innovation and development of a new low-voltage solar micro-inverter based on its new chip design, it said lower cost, more reliable than those currently on the market efficiency.

Bonanno is a disruptive force very confident inverter technology, known as "universal micro inverters." He believes that it can "replace all solar inverter options, hands down." The key technology of the inverter is on how the chip synchronization, and control power flow in low voltage, and an inverter box design itself.

The company's inverter technology can be connected to a solar panel system, rack or frame, or embedded in a single solar module level. Bonanno said the inverter 5 times more reliable than 5% of high efficiency and cost than traditional "string" inverter, has been used dozens of young and 20%. The potential for lower cost inverter, the entire cost of the solar system may be lower, in addition to the price of solar modules in the recent decline.

Energy storage technology using micro-inverters, solar panels from temporary storage of the DC power supply and AC mains decoupling of. In Empower micro inverter system with a new generation of solid capacitors, this energy storage technology, while other systems are more often used more conventional liquid-filled electrolytic capacitors.

There are a lot of competition in the solar inverter space. Not only have the new micro-inverter companies, such as Enphase Energy Company, and optimization techniques and Tigo Energy's power supply from the same edge of the sun, and it is the same as the traditional SMA inverters giants dominate the market.

The plans to empower micro systems are actually more daring than just replacing the solar inverter. This technique can be applied to energy storage and electric vehicles, as well as Bonanno said the day, they want to enter these markets, but also the road.