AMP-STOR: Advanced module-level power electronics with battery STORage******

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AMP-STOR proposes to verify critical aspects of an innovative dispatchable stored solar energy technology architecture which is being developed by Alpha Technologies Canada, collaborating with uOttawa SUNLAB. The new architecture includes an innovative way to combine solar PV with existing storage technology. It improves efficiency by mitigating solar panel string mismatch losses, overcomes installation limitations such as shading, and optimizes equipment utilization and reduced installation costs using string stretching. In addition, the new architecture improves fit to user needs through remote dynamic control capability, tailoring user-specified operating optimization criteria across distributed system elements including solar modules, module-level power electronics, battery storage, and final converters to provide the most efficient power harvest and battery recharging, and longest battery life.****uOttawa SUNLab has expertise and test capability in advanced control systems that is appropriate to this research challenge (specifically, in the areas of standardized intelligent distributed grid-edge power management systems, and also in solar PV panel physics and electrical power management).****This new scalable reconfigurable architecture will grow demand for clean renewable energy in residential and commercial markets, including remote industrial sites, remote communities, urban rooftop solar, and grid interactive as well as off-grid applications, thereby mitigating ongoing fossil fuel costs, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions, and so improving public health, employment, and the environment, as well as providing increased power harvest and thus improved investment returns.**********