INTEGRATING SOLAR AND POWER QUALITY

SURGE PROTECTION DEVICES. TRANSIENTS ARE EVERYWHERE

In today's modern world, electricity has become a critical part of our daily lives, let alone its effects on electronic devices and machinery. However, power quality issues such as voltage variations and high energy transients are still prevalent and can damage sensitive equipment, leading to financial loss and potential safety risks. We want to help solar customers avoid such problems by integrating solar and power quality promoting this article.

The way to protect against high energy surges or transients is to use AC and DC Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors (TVSS), also known as Surge Protective Devices (SPD), which are designed to limit the voltage applied to the protected load during a transient event, helping to prevent damage and ensuring maximum power quality for critical loads.

Many people are unaware that high energy surges or transients are much more common and frequent than most known power disturbances such as blackouts or voltage variations (sags or swells), and assuming that their critical load is already fully protected only using Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) or Voltage Regulators.

Of course, those usual protections are not enough as high energy transients may occur thousands of times a day and are caused by other and different external or internal factors such as lightning strikes, abrupt power outages, poor DC coupling design, big load changes (on-off), and other environmental and electrical wiring design issues. Therefore, solar applications are also susceptible to the occurrence of these events. To protect against them, the use of SPDs has become increasingly important.

However, according to a survey by the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), only 30% of U.S. homes have surge protection, and even a lower percentage of businesses have installed comprehensive surge protection systems.

In solar applications, SPDs are often overlooked as well. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducted a study that found that surge-related issues were responsible for up to 80% of solar inverter failures and solar panel fires. However, surprisingly, SPDs are not usually included in standard solar installation packages.

To overcome these barriers, using our Integration Coefficient IC business model, an important goal is to educate customers about the benefits of SPDs and the risks of not using them. In addition, our IC model can also help customers get the best prices by leveraging supply chain intelligence and sourcing high-quality surge protection components from reputable suppliers.

Additionally, working with them and enjoying our unified guarantee, our Integration Coefficient IC model ensures customers receive reliable surge protection solutions that meet their specific needs, integrated into our solar, power quality, and telecom rectifier-converter solutions and, at the same time, ensuring maximum customer satisfaction.

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