Advancing Grid-Scale PV+Storage: A Comparison of Leading Architectures

Synopsis

The integration of storage is critical to manage solar intermittency and ensure a reliable and resilient power grid, but solar+storage configurations are not a one-kind-fits-all approach. Levent Gun, CEO of Ampt will discuss the pros and cons of the three main architectures – AC-coupled, DC-coupled, and Fixed DC-coupled – and explain why Fixed DC-coupled systems provide superior cost and performance advantages over other architectures and now represent a growing number of front-of-the-meter DC-coupled solar+storage around the world.