Tigo Energy, a photograph voltaic and energy software program program choices provider, has commissioned and put in its first Tigo EI Residential Photograph voltaic Reply battery on a PV project in Puerto Rico.
Inbuilt Arecibo, the system was designed and put in by Tigo installer affiliate CEnergyS Photograph voltaic Choices, a renewable energy methods agency serving Puerto Rico for greater than 12 years. The Tigo EI Residential Photograph Voltaic Reply consists of Tigo TS4 Flex MLPE merchandise, the Tigo EL Inverter, and a modular DC-coupled EI Battery.
The setup of the EI Residential Photograph Voltaic Reply, which is designed to generate and retailer photograph voltaic energy all by means of the day, comes on the heels of a not-too-long-ago launched roadmap to realize a 100% renewable energy in Puerto Rico by 2050. The 5.6-kW arrange in Arecibo is equipped with the OGP and LUMA-certified 7.6-kW Tigo EI Inverter, a 10-kWh EI Battery, 200A Tigo Computerized Change Swap (ATS) and 20 Tigo TS4-A-O Flex MLPE devices.
“The battery arrange was very easy {that a} huge half could also be carried out by one specific particular person alone,” said Abdeel Molina, proprietor of CEnergyS Photograph voltaic Choices. “The blending of the ATS, inverter, and the battery was fairly easy, too.”
With the Tigo Vitality Intelligence monitoring platform, CEnergyS Photograph Voltaic Choices has full entry, administration, and module-level visibility into the setup. The hybrid construction of the EI Inverter can current a wider working voltage variation, enabling energy manufacturing earlier within the morning and later into the night time.
The EI Batteries are charged immediately by DC (direct current) electrical vitality and profit from the inverter’s 2:1 DC oversizing ratio to value the batteries additional vitality which will in some other case be misplaced. For grid-tied methods, the Tigo ATS senses grid loss and routinely switches between grid-tied photograph voltaic, islanding with photograph voltaic + storage, or battery-only, as wished.
“Because of Puerto Rico is so steadily uncovered to the extremes of tropical local weather and hurricanes, our EI Residential ought to ship resilience for inclement local weather, and the combo of high-quality merchandise and prime quality arrange makes every potential,” said Jing Tian, chief improvement officer at Tigo Vitality. “Moreover, the CEnergyS prospects who rely upon their photograph voltaic + storage installations for electrical vitality could also be assured that any system factors could also be shortly acknowledged, recognized, and remedied with the help of our distant monitoring platform. At Tigo, we’re laser-focused on combining extremely efficient software program packages with wonderful prime quality, from our transport dock to system commissioning and previous, to help homeowners sustaining the lights on when the grid goes down.”
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