Microinverter empowers photovoltaic agriculture and illuminates a new path for green development

"Photovoltaic + agriculture" is a new form of agriculture, covering many fields such as planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, etc., forming a multi-complementary model of agriculture-photovoltaic complementarity, fishery-photovoltaic complementarity, animal husbandry-photovoltaic complementarity, etc. The combination of photovoltaic power generation and agricultural production not only provides clean energy, but also revitalizes the most traditional agriculture.

Recently, a new photovoltaic power generation system was built on a farm in Illinois, USA, becoming a model for the application of photovoltaic and agriculture in the region. The project was installed and constructed by a local partner of AP Energy Technology. All of them used AP Energy Technology's three-phase micro inverter YC1000, which can connect to 4 photovoltaic modules at the same time and continuously output three-phase balanced AC power, truly achieving three-phase balanced output, reducing system power loss and improving power quality. From multiple perspectives such as safety, power generation, and intelligent operation and maintenance, it provides favorable guarantees for power stations.

The project leader said: "The micro inverter YC1000 provides a perfect three-phase micro-inverter solution. Its use makes the project design simple, installation convenient and can realize remote operation and maintenance, which greatly reduces the operation and maintenance cost of the system. At the same time, the service life of the micro-inverter is 25 years, which is basically the same as the life of the photovoltaic module. All these factors prove that YC1000 is the best choice!"

In addition, considering that crops need sufficient light for growth and that photovoltaic modules can protect crop growth, 430W bifacial modules are used in the project. Unlike conventional photovoltaic modules, the back of bifacial modules is encapsulated with transparent materials (glass or transparent backplane). In addition to normal power generation on the front, the back can also receive scattered light and reflected light from the environment to generate electricity. Although it has a higher overall power generation efficiency, in actual situations, due to the different power generation power on the front and back of the bifacial modules, coupled with uneven irradiation on the back of the modules, it is more likely to cause module mismatch. According to statistics, the system mismatch of general bifacial modules is more than 3 times that of conventional modules.

The APpower micro-inverter products used in the system can perfectly match the bifacial components, helping them to maximize their application advantages. The micro-inverter system adopts a full parallel circuit design, with independent MPPT for each component, which greatly weakens the short board effect, allowing it to truly play the "bifacial advantage", increase power generation by 5%~30%, and maximize the benefits of photovoltaic power stations!

The "agriculture + photovoltaic" development model has become one of the main directions of development of my country's photovoltaic industry. With the continuous expansion of the photovoltaic application market and the continuous innovation of photovoltaic utilization methods, the market scale of photovoltaic agriculture in my country will gradually increase, and my country's agriculture will also usher in new breakthroughs. APEN Technologies will continue to strengthen relevant technical research, continuously empower photovoltaic agriculture, and fully support the high-quality realization of the dual carbon goals.