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Repairing an off-grid wind and solar electrical system

Low Impact

We recently blogged about a project : ‘rebuilding a home, and changing the surrounding fields from dead agricultural land into an oasis of natural life’ – as well as building an off-grid electrical and heating system. This is basically putting a multi-meter set on DC 10 amps directly across the output of the panels.

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Utility-scale solar PV pushes into higher AC voltages

Renewable Energy World

With output voltages now as high as 1000VAC, the same amperages will yield higher output power levels. This was limited to traditional AC voltages of 120VAC single phase and 480VAC three phase. Using string inverters also allows for increased monitoring at the PV array level.