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Smart o -grid can change this
reality for sub-Saharan Africa by making o -grid systems more reliable. Infrastructure owners can ensure
that these systems are being installed and maintained correctly, which increases the lifespan considerably. is technology has already been installed in Harare, Zimbabwe, where it controls street lights on one of the city’s main thoroughfares. Similar projects are already underway across Nigeria, Rwanda, and Ghana.
INCREASE pROJECT REVENUES
The smart o -grid solar revolution
Smart o -grid will transform the power industry in the same way that wireless communications and smartphones changed the telecommunications industry.
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Adding energy storage to a new or existing utility-scale s-olar installation with a Dynapower DC-DC converter can increase PV energy production through clipping recapture and low voltage harvest. Further adding to your bottom line, DC-coupled solar plus storage has a higher efficiency t-han AC-coupled storage and is eligible for valuable tax incentives for installation owners.
To learn more about how Dynapower’s patent-pending line of DC-DC converters can increase project revenues and lower the installation costs of utility-scale solar plus storage, please visit our website to download the
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A decade or so ago, everyone had a landline phone. If you were one of theCY
lucky few, you might have a Blackberry. Fast forward to today: the landline is K dead - smartphones have taken over our lives. Over 30 percent of the world’s population owns a smartphone, and two-thirds of millennials in the U.S. aged 25 to 29, live in a household without a landline.
e same paradigm shift is going
to happen to the power industry.
In a new digital age of wireless communications and cloud computing, it seems antiquated that we are still tied to power cables and transmission towers. Not only is this monolithic power grid infrastructure costly to install and maintain, it is also inherently vulnerable to systemic failure from cyberattacks, terrorism, and storms – as we witnessed most recently in Puerto Rico.
It is only a matter of time before smart o -grid solar power gains a foothold as a cleaner, cheaper, reliable alternative to grid electricity. We say, viva la revolución!
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Miriam Tuerk is CEO and co-founder of Clear Blue Technologies. Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart O -GridTM company, was founded on a vision of delivering clean, managed, “wireless power” to meet the global need for reliable, low-cost, solar and hybrid power for lighting, telecom, security, Internet of ings devices, and other critical systems. Today, Clear Blue has
over 300 customers and 2,500 systems under management across 33 countries, including the U.S. and Canada.
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Annual Lost Production:
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