Re: [RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Soleil
Yes Mark, Enphase sets the alternate grid parameters for HI remotely, and will send a letter of confirmation directly to the utility on your behalf. We have preset grid parameters for HECO and MECO. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Frye wrote: > Folks, > > ** ** > > I was told that be

[RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-04 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
Take it from someone in the trenches out here in the Aloha Stateyes, we have to jump through these hoops. The utilities here-HECO, MECO, HELCO and KIUC-vary as far as what they require regarding verification and documentation. It's been my experience that HECO and MECO are more lax whereas HE

Re: [RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-04 Thread John Berdner
-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Mark Frye Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:44 PM To: re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Subject: [RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings Folks, I was told that because the HI grid has poor frequency control, grid-tied inverters have to have their low

Re: [RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-04 Thread Dave Click
That's correct, it's a 57.0 - 60.5 Hz operating window. http://www.heco.com/portal/site/heco/menuitem.508576f78baa14340b4c0610c510b1ca/?vgnextoid=12a290a2decab110VgnVCM105c011bacRCRD&cpsextcurrchannel=1#bk6 According to that website, the requirement only applied to systems interconnected af

Re: [RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-04 Thread Brian Mehalic
We had the same request in NC by Duke Energy. The inverter mfg. says they can do it but it'd be outside of the values on the label that the inverter is listed to. I don't think Duke cares, but the AHJ may. Brian Typos courtesy of my iPhone. On Feb 4, 2013, at 6:44 PM, "Mark Frye" wrote: >

[RE-wrenches] Hawaii Frequency Settings

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Frye
Folks, I was told that because the HI grid has poor frequency control, grid-tied inverters have to have their low frequency limit set to 57 Hz so they can ride out the worst low frequency events. I find it hard to believe that this has been done for every single inverter installed in HI.