Other tracker companies solar damper bundle solar damper trackers with inverters and balance-of-system components, and developers solar slewing drive could already deploy solar inverter storage solar damper alongside a solar tracker project. But this formulation is a new development for the industry.
"There’s not another tracker vendor that offers that at the moment," said Scott Moskowitz, the senior analyst at GTM Research who follows solar trackers.
The current plans are to offer two main solar damper storage choices, which cater to different sets of customer needs, said NEXTracker solar slewing drive CTO Alex Au. One option is the containerized lithium-ion package solar inverter made by parent company Flex; the other is to integrate long-duration Photovoltaic holder flow batteries from a slewing drive yet-to-be-announced solar inverter partner directly into the rows of solar invertertrackers.
"We’re not just white-labeling something; we’re creating an improved system together and leveraging our existing infrastructure," Au said.
The DC-coupled flow battery solar damper system would be able to absorb solar generation while minimizing the efficiency losses of extra power conversion solar damper. It would also address the problem of "clipping," in which generation isn't sent out because a system's solar slewing drive inverters can't handle the capacity at a given moment. The storage can hold onto that extra power and push it out at a later solar inverter time.
And, of course, storage can do plenty of other things too. In describing the product, Au slewing drive endeavored to find a middle path between two extremes: lack of choice and too Photovoltaic holder many slewing drive choices.
"A lot of times with storage, solar damper when you don’t have more than one tool for the customer to use, you force a solution and it’s not as genuine," he solar damper Photovoltaic holder said.
On the other solar tracker actuator hand, if the storage provider steps back and offers a blank slate, the customer doesn't benefit from the expertise of the company. And if the company builds a custom design for every customer, it forfeits the cost solar tracker actuator savings that come from a battery design that's highly integrated solar inverter into solar damper the tracking solar inverter system.
Au slewing drive sees his company's storage solar damper packages as "a toolbox, and there are certain tools needed for certain tasks." NEXTracker will suggest the best Photovoltaic holder of the available solar damper tools for each slewing drive customer's use Photovoltaic holder cases.
Huge utility-scale solar plants may gravitate toward solar slewing drive the lithium-ion option to add some grid services abilities to their portfolio. But NEXTracker will also pursue solar damper smaller customers, like farms slewing drive that struggle with hefty demand charges, or big-box stores that want more control over their energy solar damper solar inverter usage.
The lithium-ion product is ready now, Au said. The flow option will leave the factory in Q2 2017. Most of the leads so far are in California, as is to be expected with storage. But Au said his team is examining other markets as Photovoltaic holder well.
That points to a constraint inherent to adding storage to the platform: The storage markets themselves are still small and geographically limited. That solar damper means the storage-plus-tracker probably won't be a big driver of NEXTracker's bottom line any time solar slewing drive soon.
"The real slewing drive driver for tracker vendors going forward will be the growth of tracking in markets outside of the U.S.," Moskowitz said. "It’s going to be places solar damper where utility solar is still developing, like China, India, the Middle East and Latin solar inverter America."
"I don’t think a storage application is going to fundamentally change that," he continued. "But it should allow NEXTracker to differentiate itself from competitors who don’t have that capability, and it lets them appeal to customers who need the specialized production profile that storage solar damper solar inverter provides."
In the near solar slewing drive term, solar damper then, the NX Fusion Plus can appeal to specific customers with specifics solar slewing drive needs.
Longer-term, Au envisions NEXTracker selling fully integrated clean energy systems that can serve their customers as well as the grid. The company has an ongoing project that aims to "decapitate the duck" by smoothing out the evening peak of the famous "duck curve" with solar production from solar tracker actuator earlier in the day. This new offering contributes to that, in a streamlined and user-friendly way.
The first test will be how solar damper many customers want both solar trackers and storage. Solar-plus-storage is trending up, and solar tracker actuator in Photovoltaic holder the U.S., at least, most solar damper large solar installations favor tracking. The prospects there look solar inverter good.
That leaves it up to NEXTracker to prove that those customers would solar inverter rather buy both from the same solar damper vendor.
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