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Additionally, Mark McGranaghan, vice president of distribution and energy utilization at the Electric Power Research Institute, said, “Singling out inverters doesn’t even make that much sense.” He agreed that a lot of inverters aren’t connected to the internet.

“The industry trend is not necessarily putting the battery and the inverter together like Tesla. Instead it’s having the right-size battery bank and inverter so that you’re primarily using solar power and stored solar power throughout the day and night and the grid is basically a backup,” Brennan said.

Other DC transformerless options out there like Pika and SolarEdge are designed for newer 380-volt Lithium batteries. But Brennan notes these batteries are still 50 volts internally and require a double conversion every time going in or out of the battery. It’s why Sol-Ark has focused on just making 48 volt batteries more efficient.

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In other news, the EU agreed on a 32% renewable target by 2030, after all-night negotiations. The new is binding and, according to the EU Commission’s statement, may be subject to upwards revision by 2023.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, alternative-fueled vehicles, a category that includes both hydrogen fuel cell and battery-powered electric, are not more hazardous than traditional internal combustion engines. The NFPA’s statistics reveal that approximately every 3 minutes there is a car fire in the U.S. from an internal combustion engine vehicle.

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Toyota, the world’s second-largest automaker, is the largest player in the U.S. consumer market for hydrogen fuel cell cars. Its Mirai – a hydrogen fuel cell family car – has found 5,000 buyers since it was introduced in the fall of 2015. Russ Koble, a spokesman in Toyota’s environmental and advanced technology group, said the company expects sales to increase as more fueling stations open.

According to some estimates, the total of photovoltaic inverters supplied by Ingeteam in 2018 would be able to generate enough energy as to satisfy the demand of around two million households.

Figure 2: The voltage waveforms on the DC and AC sides of the inverter. Note that in a transformer-less system, the DC side does indeed have a DC voltage corresponding to the output of the photovoltaic cells between the PV+ and PV- nodes (this may be increased by a DC-DC converter) but each of the PV nodes also has an AC voltage whose peak value is similar to the peak output voltage of the AC side. If not considered at the system level, this represents a serious safety hazard.

Although inverter manufacturers use verbiage like “islanding,” “hybrid” or “battery-based” inverters, the inverters are still separate from batteries in most applications except the Tesla Powerwall 2, which integrates an inverter+battery in one case, and some others.