PV Powered Inverters an Earth Friendly product from Syracuse Solar and WInd.

PV Powered is the innovation leader for grid-tied PV inverters in the residential, commercial, and utility markets, setting the industry standard for innovation in reliability and efficiency. Founded in Bend, Oregon in 2003 and privately owned, the company brings together one of the most experienced design teams in solar power electronics to tackle three significant issues affecting the growth of solar power usage worldwide – (1) dramatically improving the reliability of inverters, (2) decreasing system lifecycle costs and (3) making distributed PV a scalable and controllable resource on the utility grid.

With the industry’s first standard 10-year nationwide warranty and optional 20-year extended warranty, we stand behind our products in ways that count.

PV Powered strives to offer our customers choice. We offer a range of performance monitoring, DC-DC conversion technology and other balance of system solutions through partnerships with industry technology leaders. Our performance monitoring partnerships enable factory integration and testing of components, reducing the cost and improving the ease of installation for our customers.

Poised for future growth
Our focus on reliability, lifecycle cost, and ability to offer our customers the solutions they need has enabled PV Powered to experience triple digit growth over the past two years. Three years ago, we were a staff of approximately 20 people, had 5 residential products, and a handful of customers. Today we are rapidly moving towards a staff of 100 people, have a portfolio of over 15 products shipping that includes commercial and utility scale solutions up to 1 MW in size. PV Powered is viewed as the innovation leader in a market that is projected to grow at a 30%+ CAGR for the next 20 years.

Innovation leadership for a distributed tomorrow
As the level of distributed solar increases, there will be a need for PV systems to provide their host utility with much greater awareness, control and grid support functions than what is available today. PV Powered was recently selected to receive a Stage 2 award under the Solar Energy Grid Integration System (SEGIS) program by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The company is developing innovations that increase energy harvest, reduce the cost of PV systems, and is aggressively investing in solving the critical challenges of solar as a mainstream power source by partnering with industry leaders driving the foundation of the Smart Grid.

Committed to our partners’ success and to customer satisfaction
PV Powered is committed to supporting the success of our distributors, dealers, installers, utilities, and developers by ensuring that our products are easy to design in, easy to install, easy to maintain, and deliver the industry’s highest 20+ year ROI. Our service and support program is second to none with factory-certified technicians to provide expert support and programs, training, and materials to help resellers and installers grow their business.

Reliable partnerships, reliable products… that’s Simply More Reliable Solar

PV Powered Commercial Inverters

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Commercial grid-tied Inverters
F pvpoweredcommercial or the commercial market, PV Powered offers a wide range of inverter sizes for optimal stringing and design flexibility. The PV Powered commercial inverters set the industry standard for high reliability, ease of installation and lifetime maintainability. Their 20- plus year design-life is enabled by an array of new market-leading reliability features including bus bars for all power connections, a sealed electronics module and an instrumented cooling system. The highly-integrated system was designed to save commercial installers time and money with load break rated AC & DC service disconnects, certification for installation without a neutral conductor, cable landing points sized for maximum NEC-compliant cables and a well-planned cable bending radius for top, bottom and side cable entry options.

PV Powered commercial inverters offer best-in-class efficiency and a voltage window of 295-600VDC. This is the widest operating range with the lowest standard MPPT voltage of any three-phase inverter in the industry. Serviceability is enhanced by a modular design that divides the inverter into easy-to-maintain subsystems. PV Powered backs all their inverters with an industry-leading 10-year nationwide warranty and an unprecedented optional 20-year warranty, plus the best service and support team in the busin

PV Powered Residential Inverters

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PV Powered Residential grid-tied inverters for Syracuse and Central New York

PV Powered inverters deliver maximum energy harvest from your Central New York Solar system with high reliability and world-class efficiency. Significant software integration and a modular design combine to create a scalable platform with fewer components and higher uptime. By employing fewer parts and ensuring those parts are of the highest quality, PV Powered has created a line of residential grid-tie inverters that can match the harsh environment of Central New York, and spend more time generating sun power.

Optional Integrated AC and DC PV System Disconnect

PV Powered continues to deliver the solar industry-leading reliability and technical innovations that lower the total cost of a PV system installation and is now the only manufacturer of an integrated AC/DC PV System Disconnect, listed to the UL 98 Standard, for residential inverters. The UL 98 Standard, ensures the integrated PV Powered disconnect meets all installation and inspection requirements of a PV System disconnect. Housed within an NEC compliant wire raceway, PV Powered’s innovative disconnect consists of one enclosure with generous working room for installation. In addition to providing for a single point of connection from the utility service and PV array, the wire raceway’s optimized knockout locations also provide options for side, bottom, and back entry with minimized conduit bending saving you installation costs. The wire raceway enables flush side-by-side mounting, eliminating the need for extra equipment and resulting in a cleaner, less expensive installation.

10 Year Residential Warranty

PV Powered products have been covered since their first day in business with the industry’s best warranty. There are no special club memberships, sales volumes to achieve or fine print that you need your lawyer to read. Just like our inverters… it is simple. For ten years from the time of installation our inverters are covered. If you have a problem our field service team will either repair it on site or we will issue an RMA replacement and will compensate you for the time it will take to install it.

PVM1010 Data Monitoring Module

The PVM 1010 provides secure, web-based access to your system’s status and performance history. With this option, you can maximize your system uptime and protect your solar investment. The PVM1010 along with the secure Internet-based server is equivalent to a more expensive stand-alone data logging meter and communication interface without the extra cost and inconvenience of installation and maintenance of a separate metering system. After getting registered you get access to inverter information from anywhere you can connect to the Internet. Reports of power output and energy production trends, local weather conditions and forecasts, verification that your system is working at its full potential and collection and export of data for service and maintenance planning are all included at no charge.

Features

Industry-Leading Reliability

Endurance tested to 20 year operating life
Lowest part counts and fewest interconnects eliminate common failure points
Field-proven technology with thousands of units installed nationwide

Integrated AC and DC PV System Disconnect

Listed to UL 98 Standard for use with PV Powered UL 1741 Listed string inverters
Robust testing of switch mechanism to UL 98 Standard, called "Enclosed and Dead Front Switches"
Single AC/DC switch visible and lockable in the OFF position
NEC Compliant internal wire raceway enables flush side-by-side mounting
Direct-to-wall surface enclosure design allows for easy access and installation

Easy installation

Factory integrated inverter and PV System Disconnect eliminates the need for extra equipment
Interconnections reduced from 12 to 4 points, saving installation time and material costs
Field-configurable inverter grounding schema with simple jumper selection
Optimally placed knockouts for a variety of conduit routing options

Installer-Focused Support

No special purchase requirements to get the best technical support in the industry
Live technical phone support
RMA program includes $400 purchase credit or $150 service reimbursement
Optional performance monitoring available