Alencon Systems LLC

At Alencon Systems, our mission is to help utility scale solar operators harness more of the sun's energy and reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) produced from a PV plant. Our unique, utility scale DC to DC optimizers and central inverters allow more energy to be harvested while driving down the overall Balance of Systems (BoS) cost of utility scale solar installation. Our products feature the remarkable PV-IoT software platform called VIEWS that allows PV plant operators to achieve unprecedentedly granular monitoring and virtual reality display of a PV installation to assure all aspects of the system are running at peek efficiency. String Power Optimizers and Transmitters (SPOTs) are our powerful DC-DC optimizers which are capable of stepping-up the voltage harvested from PV arrays to upwards of 2,500 volts while performing maximum power point tracking (MPPT) on up to four strings of solar panels at once. At the heart of Alencon Systems’ solution is our Grid Inverter Package (GrIP) central inverter, a central inverter that scales up quickly to the multi-megawatt level in 2.5 MW increments. The Alencon GrIP system is based on our patented Harmonic Neutralization approach, a significant advancement from the pulse-width modulation (PWM) technology used by most PV inverters on the market today. The HN approach to inverter design has a number of technical benefits over PWM, including: • Smaller size, higher power density, and lower equipment cost per MW rating as a result of utilizing very large semiconductors. • High efficiency (99.5%) is achieved through low (50/60 Hz) switching frequency - hundreds times lower than conventional PWM inverters. • Unsurpassed reliability from simplified construction: several three phase heavy-duty inverter modules operate concurrently from the same DC source into the same load assuring that even the entire loss of one module only minimally affects power generation.