Omron transformerless inverter, thanks to ZCC embedded technology, can replace inverter with transformer in PV plants with thin film modules
According to latest IEA (International Agency Report) Report, Snapshot of Global PV Markets 2016, Italy, where PV production cover 8% of electricity needs, is the country with the highest solar contribution to electricity demand in Europe, followed by Greece (7,4%) and Germany (7,1%). This is enough to confirm that revamping is a strategical issue for PV Inverter producers, like Omron, which are still on the market and should give assistance to those plants where the inverter manufacturers failed.
Main strengths of the transformerless Inverter KP100L is that, thanks to ZCC embedded technology, it can replace inverters with transformer in plants with thin film modules, where grounding of negative pole is mandatory.
Quite interesting what happened in Italy: Filippo Agriman, technical and sales manager in Solarit, an italian company active in the PV sector since 2001, found a very interesting solution to replace a centralized inverter with transformer and grounded negative pole in a 70 kW plant with thin modules. The plant was connected to the Grid in 2011, and, by now, both the inverter manufacturer and the in film modules manufacturer cannot give any support.
