How to avoid the financial loss due to power factor penalties when integrating solar power

Credit to Author: Vanya Ignatova| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:00:51 +0000

I recently worked on the integration of solar production into a small industrial building project. In the process, I discovered an interesting fact: The integration of solar production can have… Read more »

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Service Partnerships Re-imagined

Credit to Author: Frederic Abbal| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:49:43 +0000

In a constantly evolving and connected world, organizations need to digitize their business processes to be competitive; and at Schneider Electric, we see 4 global transformations impacting the world and… Read more »

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Accounting for solar and storage integration in electrical installation calculations

Credit to Author: Vanya Ignatova| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:00:55 +0000

When solar electricity production and storage are integrated into buildings, the electrical installations evolve from single-source to multi-source, from generator-based generation to inverter-based generation, and from a single operating mode… Read more »

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Producing too much solar power? Here’s how you can manage the excess

Credit to Author: Vanya Ignatova| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:36 +0000

In installations with photovoltaic production, the building electrical energy consumption does not always match the photovoltaic production. The degree of this mismatch depends on the building activity and its consumption… Read more »

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Straight talk about using solar energy in buildings

Credit to Author: Vanya Ignatova| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:00:10 +0000

In the early days of solar panels, the photovoltaic energy they produced most frequently was exported to the grid for distribution rather than being used directly on-site. Today that model… Read more »

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For youth employment: skills work

Credit to Author: Gilles Vermot Desroches| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:01:20 +0000

We celebrate World Youth Skills Day, July 15th, 2019. Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults. Women are also more likely to be underemployed… Read more »

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Powering the Cities of the Future

Credit to Author: Fares Kammourieh| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:12:59 +0000

Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to 68%. As the rate of urbanization increases, this poses a serious question:… Read more »

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Optimizing your solar investment was never easier

Credit to Author: Sébastien Mathiou| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:00:51 +0000

Self-consumption is one of the most effective ways to get the greatest benefit out of a residential photovoltaic (PV) installation. When a residential entity consumes the generated PV electricity instantaneously… Read more »

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