SMA gained The smarter E Award for its Sunny Central Flex platform, a modular system resolution for giant converter methods, out there as much as 7.4 MW. Despite its excessive efficiency, it makes use of silicon carbide transistors, which obtain efficiencies as much as 99.2% and 99.5% as a DC-coupled resolution.
The award acknowledges the platform’s versatile adaptability. The identical platform may be configured for PV island methods, AC-coupled storage methods, DC-coupled PV-plus hybrid energy crops, and hydrogen electrolyzers.
The 40-foot skidtainer building features a medium-voltage transformer, switchgear, DC-AC inverter levels, and DC/DC converter levels. These levels may be changed and rearranged for various purposes. SMA certifies each DC and AC connection levels, permitting the platform to adapt to particular person purposes with out re-certification.
SMA configures every resolution to venture necessities and DC/DC converters may be retrofitted to attach battery storage units. Bernd Geßner, platform supervisor for SMA, stated that its DC/DC converters allow quick response occasions inside milliseconds for DC-coupled methods, matching AC-coupled options for frequency measurements and digital instantaneous reserve functionality. He stated these options are necessary in lots of markets.
SMA’s Sunny Central Flex platform gained The smarter E Award for its modularity, flexibility, and skill to carry out numerous community formation duties.