The Solar Asset Symposium: Emerging Trends, Tools and Standards for Driving Down the Cost of Capitalizing Solar as an Asset Class The Solar Asset Symposium: Emerging Trends, Tools and Standards for Driving Down the Cost of Capitalizing Solar as an Asset Class Level 3, Grand Ballroom B, InterContinental Hotel Lack of standards across the…

The 28th EU PVSEC will take place from 30 September to 04 October 2013 at Parc des Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte in Paris, France. The five-day Conference is complemented by the three-day Exhibition, held from 01 to 03 October 2013.
 By the end of 2012, cumulative global installed photovoltaic capacity exceeded the 100 GW mark…

The Electricity Storage Association’s (ESA) 23rd Annual Conference is the energy storage industry’s leading event developed by the industry to support the advancement of the industry.  Session topics include discovering the value of energy storage; financing energy storage; applications for energy storage including PV integration, wind integration, island grids, Department of Defense applications, control systems,…

Question: What will it take to begin unlocking the true value of the smart grid?  Answer:  The meaningful analysis of big data that comes from the underlying infrastructure and ever-growing number of connected consumers. New hardware is essential for massive infrastructural shifts that underpin systems such as the smart grid, but software (in this case…

Twelve new SunSpec certifications issued to companies from eight countries, doubling the number of SunSpec Certified™ products in the past six months. SunSpec Plug Fest 2012 Round Up News Release. SAN JOSE, CA – May 22, 2012 – The SunSpec Alliance, a trade association established to create open information standards for solar PV components and…

March 2013, Golden, Colorado. NREL contracted with SunSpec Alliance—an industry-leading association of monitoring, component, and development entities—to build a database of real-world solar asset performances from solar facilities across the country. The database, which uses associated data that is collected from thousands of systems across the United States, is designed to improve access to low-cost…

January 30, 2013 — Pleasanton, California. SunSpec Alliance member TÜV Rheinland has announced that they are expanding their solar program in the U.S. to address bankability issues associated with solar modules and power plants. Read the news here.

Award-Winning, High-Efficiency Inverter Continues to Impress; Now Approved by CEC, UL and SunSpec Alliance Eltek THEIA HE-t Solar Inverter Earns California Energy Commission (CEC) Eligibility for High-Efficiency Program…… In addition, the inverter has attained SunSpec Alliance certification, proving that it meets global interoperability specifications. PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eltek, the world leader in high efficiency power systems for telecommunications,…

      Fronius USA January 2, 2013 Fronius USA launches SunSpec Modbus Card. The new SunSpec Certified Modbus card from Fronius is a Modbus RTU option card that can be installed easily into our full line of inverters, making third party monitoring with any SunSpec gateway or datalogger plug-and-play easy. The Modbus card can…

      Solectria Renewables, LLC, the leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that its SolrenView web-based monitoring communications gateway has achieved compliance with SunSpec Alliance specifications and is now SunSpec Certified™.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 07, 2012 -  SunSpec Alliance specifications are a set of documents that define a data communications standard for…

November 14, 2012. Brea, California The SunSpec Alliance successfully completed its fifth SunSpec Plug Fest (the third of 2012) and is pleased to report that the following product solutions are now SunSpec Certified: Mersen (www.mersen.com) – String monitor Power-One (www.power-one.com) – Central inverter product line Measurlogic (www.measurlogic.com) - DC meter product line Loggerware (www.loggerware.com) and Moxa…