Sustainable Energy Delivers New Fuel-Cell Inverter
Sustainable Energy Technologies
, a developer of advanced power electronics for global alternative energy and
renewable-energy industries, has announced that the company has delivered its
first inverter platforms for stationary fuel-cell applications. The new inverter
platform has a peak "stack to grid" electrical conversion efficiency
of over 94%, according to Sustainable Energy.
The inverter's design offers a new approach to power conversion, enabling a
single step conversion from low-voltage DC power to grid-standard AC voltage
with minimal loss of energy, and active bi-directional control over the fuel
cell current, the company said.
"We are now using the same power electronics, controls software and
transformer design for both solar PV and fuel-cell applications," said
Brent Harris, director of technology development for Sustainable Energy.
"This is a very significant milestone in our quest to deliver, what we
believe will be, the industry’s first 'universal' inverter -– an inverter
which uses the same power electronics for all distributed generation and storage
technologies."
(Source: Sustainable Energy news release, 4/27/05)