Yaskawa Solectria Solar and Tigo Team Up to Provide Advanced Shutdown System for Rooftop PV

Yaskawa Solectria Solar (YSS) is pleased to announce its partnership with Tigo, the leading manufacturer of Module-Level Power Electronics (MLPE). As the nation's leading supplier of inverters in the roof-mounted commercial PV market, YSS is focused on advancing its technology and achieving the highest level of quality in our products. Together YSS and Tigo are providing the simplest, safest solution for roof-mounted PV systems to insure the safety of firefighters and first responders, and guarantee system owners of full compliance with the National Electrical Code (NEC) module-level rapid shutdown requirements.

Yaskawa Solectria Solar has achieved compatibility of its PVI 50/60TL line with the entire TS4 portfolio of devices from Tigo. This includes the TS4-F (Fire Safety), Tigo's new fire-safety model, which is the simplest and most cost efficient method to achieve compliance with NEC 2017 requirements for module-level rapid shut down. Our system solution utilizes powerline communication and meets the latest SunSpec Alliance protocol.

In addition, the PVI 50/60TL is compatible with the rest of the Tigo family of devices -TS4-D (Diodes), TS4-M (Monitoring), TS4-S (Safety), TS4-O (Optimization), TS4-L (Long Strings), allowing module-level optimization or string stretching. The YSS / Tigo partnership provides flexibility for our customers, for example, allowing a PV array to use a combination of optimizers on portions that see shade and the lower-cost for those in perfect sun.

At this time YSS has achieved compatibility with the Tigo TS4 family with five of our commercial string inverters: PVI 23TL, PVI 28TL, PVI 36TLPVI 50TL and PVI 60TL. Next in line and currently under test is our all-new SOLECTRIA XGIâ„¢ 1000 -- BAA compliant and Made in the U.S.A. with global components. Expect an updated announcement later this summer.

Yaskawa Solectria Solar. | www.solectria.com

Tigo  |www.tigoenergy.com