The product will help those with large solar installations keep the energy they generate, for their own use.
The local designer and manufacturer of industrial power systems created the Solar Gate to support growing solar penetration in Australian electricity grid systems, and deal with problems such as voltage regulation and peak demand.
“This has forced some electricity generators and distributors to impose limits on the amount of solar injection into their grid,” according to Masoud Abshar, the managing director of Magellan Power.
“This problem is more acute with larger PV installations.
“The Solar Gate monitors the power demand of a local load and commands grid inverters to produce power equal to the local demand, in order to avoid injection of solar power into the grid.”
Abshar said the Solar Gate can also facilitate utilisation of the unused available power by switching on auxiliary (non-essential) loads.
“This is the first Australian device made of this kind, it is low cost, and it will assist in the further use of solar power in Australia,” he said.
“The device is small enough to fit within a switchboard and is compatible with popular inverter brands.”
Magellan Power has been manufacturing high reliability, industrial, DC and AC power systems for Australian projects since 1992.
It supplies DC power systems. uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and inverters to a variety of industries, such as mining, health, transport, infrastructure, defence and commercial developments.