CA C-46 License reworking [RE-wrenches]

Joel Davidson joeldavidson at earthlink.net
Sat May 18 08:43:31 PDT 2002


Los Angeles has the official goal of 100,000 PV roofs (100 MW) by the year 2010,
but can't do a MW without problems. The Japanese installed 20,000 PV systems in
2001 and Germans installed 75 MW last year. Aside from subsidies and favorable
politics, what are Japanese and German utilities and PV companies doing
technically different  to make rapid grid-tie PV growth possible?

Bill Brooks wrote:

> Graham,
>
> I am well aware of the problems at LADWP. They hosted a class that I taught
> this week. The union is using the issue to leverage their new contract so
> this is simply a pawn in a much larger political game--isn't that fun.
>
> Your question about energizing a local grid with multiple inverters is a
> good question. One of the reasons the non-islanding inverter test is so very
> difficult is to keep a high penetration of PV systems from every causing an
> islanding problem. All manufacturers have a very tough time passing this
> test.
>
> Bill.
>
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