DC:DC Converters: The Bridge to the New Hydrogen Economy
Alencon''s isolated DC:DC converters are particularly helpful in this regard because they use a specialist, high-frequency silicon carbide transistors and transformers to map the nominal voltage of the fuel cell into the nominal voltage of the DC bus to which it is connected. Once the DC:DC converter brings those two different voltage levels
Adding Battery Energy Storage to Existing PV Plants: A Case
Adding Battery Energy Storage to Existing Solar Plants: A Case Study. This case study, produced in partnership with Duke Energy, explains the opportunities and challenges with installing battery energy storage into existing solar plants
How DC:DC Converters Help Give EV Batteries a Second Life
How Alencon Systems'' Products can be Accounted for in the Domestic Content Bonus of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Controlling Solar and Storage for Optimal Results; How Mass Customization Lets You Generate More Solar Energy; Alencon Systems, LLC. 330 S. Warminster Rd., Suite 380.
Solar + Storage
The BOSS: Alencon''s Battery Centric Topology for DC-Coupling Solar + Storage. Alencon Systems'' Bi-Directional Optimizer for Storage Systems (BOSS) can be used to enable the deployment of storage in a PV array with inverters from
What''s Your Energy Storage Augmentation Plan?
Ideas for how to address the inevitable degradation that occurs with lithium-based energy storage systems. Products. SPOT – PV String DC-DC Optimizer; BOSS – Bidirectional, Storage DC-DC Optimizer; Alencon Systems, LLC. 330 S. Warminster Rd.,
Alencon Systems Company Profile | Management and Employees
Alencon Systems Profile and History. Alencon''s solutions for ALternative ENergy CONversion provide high modularity and scalability for systems from several megawatts to several-hundred megawatts. By helping to dramatically reduce balance of system costs, and increase power production through new inverter and energy harvesting technology
DC Coupling of Solar + Storage for C&I and
This however is where Alencon''s BOSS (bi-directional optimizers for storage systems) comes in to play. The BOSS offers system designers the ability to control a centralized battery, whether at the rack or the container level, and allows the battery to charge from or discharge into a number of individual string inverters.
Galvanic Isolation
Easier Management of System Grounding - Galvanic Isolation can be a great tool in a number of alternative energy application for resolving differentials in grounding schemes between input and output. Two great examples of this benefit are explained in the articles below:
BOX | Optimized Container for SPOT and BOSS | Alencon Systems
Alencon''s BOX form factor is a unique, cost effective option for deploying Alencon''s galvanically isolated, DC:DC converters, the SPOT and the BOSS. The BOX allows numerous SPOT or BOSS units to be deployed in a single location.
Building a Better Microgrid | Alencon Systems
Building a Better Microgrid. In this case study, we explore just how Emera - a $34 billion energy services company - is leveraging the unique galvanic isolation of the SPOT to change the game in microgrids that are powered by solar and battery energy storage.
BOX | Optimized Container for SPOT and BOSS
Alencon''s BOX form factor is a unique, cost effective option for deploying Alencon''s galvanically isolated, DC:DC converters, the SPOT and the BOSS. The BOX allows numerous SPOT or BOSS units to be deployed in a single location.
Fuel Cells
Alencon Systems provides you a wealth of unique, cost effective solutions for integrating DC-coupled storage into your next PV project or even to retrofit into an existing plant. Learn more PV Plant Repowering. Keep Your Existing PV Assets Running Strong! A PV plant''s performance can diminish over the years for a variety of reasons, from module
Module Level Rapid Shutdown | Fire Raptor | Alencon Systems
Alencon has partnered with IMO to offer the Fire Raptor the ultimate solar panel rapid shutdown solution - developed and designed with Fire Safety prominently in mind and compliant with stringent standards of NEC 2017. The Fire Raptor can be installed with either new PV systems or as a retrofit to existing systems to bring them into compliance with NEC 2017 and other local
EV DC Charging Solutions
Here at Alencon Systems, we build a unique line-up of galvanically isolated DC-DC optimizers than can be configured to meet your exact EV charging needs. The Alencon BOSS platform is a galvanically isolated, bi-directional DC-DC optimizer that can charge and discharge batteries of virtually any level of voltage from as low 100 volts to as high
Is PV + Storage the Holy Grail of Solar Energy? | Alencon Systems
One of the unique aspects of Alencon''s storage solutions is that make them such great enablers for integrating storage with PV is their galvanic isolation. Galvanic isolation allows Alencon''s technology to isolate storage from PV assuring the highest
Building a Better Microgrid | Alencon Systems
Building a Better Microgrid. In this case study, we explore just how Emera - a $34 billion energy services company - is leveraging the unique galvanic isolation of the SPOT to change the game in microgrids that are powered by solar and
Solar System | Applications
Alencon Systems provides you a wealth of unique, cost effective solutions for integrating DC-coupled storage into your next PV project or even to retrofit into an existing plant. Learn more PV Plant Repowering. Keep Your Existing PV Assets Running Strong! A PV plant''s performance can diminish over the years for a variety of reasons, from module
10 MW Utility Scal eSolar Inverter | Alencon Systems
Alencon''s Grid Inverter Package – the GrIP – is a 10MW central PV inverter, the largest available on the market today. The GrIP uses Alencon''s Patented Harmonic Neutralization technology to shatter the barriers of price, reliability, efficiency and size of traditional PWM-based PV inverters.. With a rugged, sealed enclosure, liquid-cooled components, heavy duty copper buses, and no
Why Being Made in the USA Matters Now, More Than Ever
Here at Alencon Systems, we proudly design, engineer and manufacture our unique DC:DC optimizers in the United States in our factory located just outside Philadelphia, PA. That is certainly not something a lot of other power electronics manufacturers serving the solar and battery energy storage industry can say these days.
Whitepaper on Solar + Storage | Alencon Systems
Learn About the Benefits of a PV-Centric Approach to DC-Coupled Solar + Storage. Solar + Storage is hot. Really hot. Like the market is going to double six times in the next 15 years hot, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
New PV Plants — More Energy, Lower Cost | Alencon Systems
If you''re planning a new PV plant, you''ll want to be sure spec out what Alencon has to offer. Our products are available either as DC-DC optimization sub-systems or as an entire centralized PV harvesting system.Whichever Alencon solution you choose, you are assured to improve the performance of your plant while reducing its overall cost.
The Case for Utility Scale DC Coupled Solar | Alencon Systems
Retrofit Possibility for Existing PV Systems – Alencon''s optimizers, with their roots in use for PV retrofits, makes retrofitting existing PV plants with storage a possibility. With the specter of the Suniva and SolarWorld casting a long shadow over the industry, considering a storage retrofit to an existing PV plant could be a very
FEED – Fused Electrical Disconnect
The Alencon Fused Electrical Disconnect (FEED) is the ideal companion to your deployment of Alencon''s SPOT or BOSS products. The FEED provides a convenient, load break DC-disconnect on the input of the SPOT and BOSS. For the BOSS, it can be used on the output as well.
Alencon Systems Introduces the BOSS BOX and SPOT BOX –
Alencon Systems is now deploying the BOSS BOX and SPOT BOX, highly configurable deployment form factors of its galvanically isolated DC:DC converters that offer the benefits of a centralized location with the flexibility, resiliency and serviceability offered from Alencon''s more granular devices. "In a world where increased levels of DC
PV Plant Topology | Alencon Systems
To maximize energy production reliably while lowering system costs, Alencon combines the highest central efficiency, distributed maximum power point tracking. Products. SPOT – PV String DC-DC Optimizer; BOSS – Bidirectional, Storage DC-DC Optimizer; CUBE - Monoltithic, Buck-Boost DC:DC Converters;