Inexpensive Wire Administration (AWM) introduced the corporate has achieved a 630 A ranking from the Renewable Vitality Check Middle (RETC), a Nationally Acknowledged Testing Laboratory (NRTL). AWM’s CMS is the primary within the business to realize this ranking, qualifying their choices to help Sungrow’s lately launched 4.4-MW SG4400UD-MV modular inverter in North America.
“Sungrow’s 4.4-MW inverter shepherds in a brand new frontier for extra environment friendly and cost-effective utility-scale photo voltaic design. By putting in our inverters, builders can lower the general LCOE as fewer inverters per megawatt are required. Due to AWM’s improvements, the elevated necessities are managed safely since their all-metal CMS are bonded and rated as much as 630amps. It’s thrilling to see that AWM is already producing choices for the North American market which can be able to help Sungrow’s newest step in inverter know-how,” stated Mikhail (Naveed) Hasan, Sungrow’s VP of technique and advertising and marketing.
AWM’s options meet the IEEE and NEC necessities for bonding extreme naked steel that’s prone to be energized. They’re additionally rated to adjust to UL2703, the Normal for Mounting Programs, Mounting Gadgets, Clamping/Retention Gadgets and Floor Lugs for Use with Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Modules and Panels.
Different alternate options, together with polymetric (plastic) hangers, sidestep this necessary commonplace as a result of they lack a bonded metal-on-metal connection.
The RETC evaluated AWM’s CMS, together with the hangers, past the utmost 200-A present ranking outlined by UL2703, to realize a bonding ranking of 630 A. This meets the overcurrent capability of Sungrow’s newest inverters for utility-scale photo voltaic initiatives, with the elevated fuse capability of 630 A.
“Utility-scale wire administration carry and route dozens {of electrical} cables for as much as 40 years, so deciding on the fitting eBOS elements is essential to long-term energy plant reliability. O+M groups, homeowners and operators are already studying the arduous approach that plastic will degrade over the 40+ 12 months lifespan of a venture. Plant homeowners are inevitably compelled to take a position money and time changing them – an unlucky, inefficient and expensive final result of utilizing plastic,” stated Scott Rand, co-founder and CEO at AWM. “By offering all-metal options, AWM’s choices help essentially the most cutting-edge technological advances and designs within the utility-scale photo voltaic business. The builders, EPCs and EORs we work with, in addition to the proprietor/operators, all expertise the very actual advantages of diminished development prices, enhanced security, constant energy plant efficiency and elevated longevity.”
Designed for utility-scale photo voltaic initiatives, AWM’s complete CMS contains the Arden Messenger Cable Hanger, the Bonsai Module Cable Hanger, and the Photo voltaic LOTO lock-out answer. AWM’s expanded {hardware} choices, introduced in early 2024, embrace the HELIOS Beam Rod and the PHOTON Toolkit.
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