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New IEEE standard facilitates
grid-connection in US
For the first time, a working
group, led by John Stevens from Sandia National Laboratories, has
developed a US standard allowing interconnections of non-utility-owned
distributed generation equipment.
With the IEEE 929 standard approved,
utilities can’t keep PV power producers away from their grids
anymore, a practice often done in the past under the excuse that the
systems could lower the grid quality (harmonics) or could cause
security dangers if the inverter continued operation when the grid had
been switched off (islanding).
Sandia National Laboratories
John Stevens
phone +1/505/844-7717
www.sandia.gov
jwsteve@sandia.gov
Michael
Schmela
© PHOTON International, March 2000

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