approved disconnects [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

Travis,

Your utility needs to get a copy of the IEEE 929-2000 interconnection
standard. UL Standard 1741 tests the inverter and was revised to meet the
requirements in IEEE 929 on November 7, 2000. All UL-listed units,
manufactured after November 7 with the words "Utility-Interactive" printed
on the listing label, have been tested to the IEEE 929 requirements.

The utility engineers who worked with the IEEE 929 standard are the most
well respected in their field--this means that any utility that refuses to
accept this standard are disagreeing with the top utility engineers in this
field. Once we get down to the facts of this situation, I have not found
many utilities that continue to insist on their own way.

There is a tremendous body of work that has gone into standardizing
interconnection, but most people in our industry and the utility industry
are unaware of extent of this work.

Bill.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar [mailto:ozsolar at ipa.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: approved disconnects [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> I have been working with my local utility on tying my system into them for
> over a year now.  It's starting to get pretty old but that conversation is
> for another day.  Some of it is understandable since I'll be the
> first, but
> over a year to approve a machine that is already approved on many other
> utilities.  Give me break.
>
> Their big hold up is approving the SW4048 as machine that can
> parallel with
> them.  Their number two hold up is that they want me on my own dedicated
> transformer.  They claim that it is only to protect me from their bad
> electricty.
>
> They are quite OK with a unfused disconnect.  From today's thread it looks
> like many other utilities want fused disconnects.
>
> Travis
>
> > That still does not deal with the owner needing access to the
> fuse in the
> box if it blows.
> >
>
>
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