Technology: BOS Architecture: OverviewOverview
A key component of any renewable energy technology solution involving either wind turbines, or solar arrays or both, is the balance of system or BOS. These components often include inverters, charge controllers, overcurrent protection and enclosures. A well-designed BOS ensures proper and correct operation of the renewable energy technologies deployed, but also ensures the safety of the client, and as well safeguards against potential damage to the equipment including the turbine(s), solar array(s), battery array(s), cables, switches and electronic components managing the renewable energy generated during severe weather conditions or other potential calamaties, and ensures safe and normal operations of conventional electrical loads (appliances, electronics, computers, etc.). It is the BOS that ties together the various renewable energy technologies deployed and which can be grid connected (grid-interactive or grid-noninteractive) or grid dis-connected (off-the-grid). Grid-interactive deployments will typically require additional metering instrumentation, or modification of existing metering instrumentation in order to conform to net metering requirements.
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