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This week at Intersolar 2011 (Mumbai), OPS together with OPS India will release the latest in transformer-less Grid Export power conditioning technology, The GEC-TL Series along with the megawatt-scale containerised power module, The Sun Station.

We invite you to visit our booth at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) Hall 1 during 14th to 16th December. Our stall will showcase our current and emerging product technology of power conversion and system integration for renewable power systems.

For attendees of the Conference, feel free to drop in on Wednesday 14th at 2pm to see Chief Technology Officer Mr Ashok Prakash and General Manager Mr Sunil Kumar discuss the Optimal Power Solutions power electronics and inverter systems.

To view more images of this project, please click on one of the images below or visit the InterSolar Mumbai page at our Flickr website here.

Optimal Power Solutions is pleased to announce the addition of our 350 kW Power Conditioning Unit to the Standard Product Range.

The 350 kW inverter will join the family of GEC, HPC and GSC inverters. This capacity unit has already been supplied to selected customers in the USA including the US Military. Following its great success and excellent field performance in these projects, OPS will offer the 350 kW power conditioning unit as a Standard Product as of March 2011.

It is expected that the addition of this unit as Standard Product will be welcomed by our valued clients in projects that are between the 250 kW and 500 kW range.

For further information on the GEC, HPC or GSC 350 kW Inverters please contact our sales team at info@optimal-power-solutions.com.

OPS India has achieved a new milestone with over 10 MW of power conditioning units (solar power inverters) supplied to the Indian energy market.

As of January 2011, OPS India has delivered over 10 MW of power conditioning units for various renewable energy projects. OPS India supplied the PCUs for the first 1-megawatt grid-connect project installed in India in West Bengal as well as the first 3-megawatt solar project installed in Karnataka. The 3-megawatt project has now exported over 4 million units of green power to the local grid.

Established in 2007, OPS India is an associated company of Optimal Power Solutions Pty. Ltd. Australia. As one of the leading technology providers in the Indian market, OPS India is committed to providing our valued clients with state-of-the-art renewable energy products. The company’s success to date has been underpinned by our cost-effective and reliable products that offer attractive return opportunities for our stakeholders.

OPS India is currently planning to expand its operations to allow for greater uptake of our products. Currently, OPS India is working on advanced designs for our digital signal processor (DSP) range of products as well as launching transformer-less solar power inverters in 2011.

Optimal Power Solutions is the lead renewable energy technology provider for the system upgrade of the US Navy’s China Lakes testing and training facility.

This project site is located in the Superior Valley, U.S.A. Due to the remote nature of the site, the facility requires a self-contained electrical generating system that includes a large-scale photovoltaic system.

OPS is currently supplying the power conversion equipment and system integration for this system upgrade. The upgrade aims to optimize the energy output of the site’s existing PV modules (210kWp). The existing modules will not be replaced however the previous inverter will be de-commissioned.

Due to the limitations of the existing PV modules to operate at high voltages, OPS was required to design and implement a custom boost-mode MPPT charger. This newly designed boost mode charger will enable the best possible integration of the existing PV array.

This is the same US Navy testing and training facility where an OPS system was previously commissioned in early 2009. It is expected this system upgrade will be commissioned in mid-April 2010.

Optimal Power Solutions is excited to announce its standard product line of DSP-based power inverters for 2010. Highly reputed for their reliability and efficiency, OPS inverters have been used extensively across a range of applications, from remote micro-grids to megawatt-scale solar farms.

The OPS Product Range 2010 Brochure, now available through our website, details standard inverter models in the following product lines:

· Hybrid Power Conditioners (HPC product line)

An integrated power conversion and management solution for off-grid applications. 7.5kW to 250kW.

· Grid Support Conditioners (GSC product line)

Designed as a distributed generation system for grid connected applications with unreliable utility supply. 7.5kW to 250kW.

· Grid Export Conditioners (GEC product line)

A unique grid connect inverter featuring fast and efficient MPPT. 7.5kW to 500kW.

The OPS Product Range 2010 Brochure is now available through the download section of our website. For sales enquiries, please contact your closest OPS office or email info@optimal-power-solutions.com

Click the above image to download The OPS Product Range 2010 Brochure

Optimal Power Solutions is negotiating its first project application in South East Asia of our newly developed product, the Macro Hybrid Power Conditioner.

The Macro HPC is an energy optimized large-scale hybrid system. It offers high power renewable energy connected to an automated multiple engine control system (MGCS).  It has a facility to schedule specialized loads through the use of a Station Control Module (SCM).

The MGCS synchronizes various generator sets to operate at peak capacity in parallel, whilst the SCM communicates with the power producing components of the renewable energy station and the Hybrid Inverter Module.

The SCM also controls the Inverter Module at the external PV farm to ensure that all PV power being exported is managed in the event that the battery bank is fully charged and the village load is being met at the time. Controllable loads can be initiated to ensure no excess renewable energy is wasted.

The first application of this newly designed OPS product will be a 1MW power plant in East Malaysia. The Macro HPC platform provides for a scaleable capacity of up to 10MW, in solar photovoltaic increments of 100kW or 250kW.

Optimal Power Solutions envisages a high take-up in future of the Macro HPC in the following applications:

• Remote & Island Village Communities
• Large-Scale Communications Towers
• Health-Care Facilities
• Governmental & Educational Institutions
• Remote Infrastructure
• Off-Grid Airports

Optimal Power provides the latest update for the Kalabakan power system. Delivery to site in East Sabah, Malaysia has been completed. Final commissioning and software setup of the station controller and automation aspects of the main AC board was completed by OPS engineers in Kuala Lumpur.

The main distribution board as shown in the photographs is 3,000 Amp rated at 415 Volts AC. The system integrates 260 kW of solar PV, 3 diesel engines, remote monitoring with automated control. The project is being undertaken for the national Utility TNB in conjunction with local partners Eramaz Technology.

The system is due to be commisoned and handed over by the end of May. For more information on this project please contact us

Optimal Power Solutions has been chosen as key supplier of a new renewable energy technology system in Exuma, Bahamas. The site is a privately owned resort island of roughly 74 acres, in the picturesque Pipe Creek area of the Bahamas.

OPS are providing a highly advanced power station control and optimized energy delivery system. The system’s technical components include two OPS proprietary technology 300k Hybrid Power Conditioner Inverters with two dual channel 120kW MPPT chargers (Maximum Power Point Tracking).

One of the main benefits of the MPPT charge controllers is that they maximize the power from the PV array regardless of the battery or DC link voltage. MMPT systems are less commonly specified in such large systems, however investment in these systems is very sensible given the avoided investment in additional solar.

The system also includes a total of 240kWp of Photovoltaic Arrays, a whopping 360v battery bank rated with over 4MWh storage, three 312kVA gensets and eight 15kW wind turbines. This system has a total capacity of about 1.5 MW. The total system will be used to supply a community with a resort and several houses.

For future information on this and other projects under development visit our blogspot again soon!

21st November 2008

OPS is poised to achieve its target of delivering its first 10 000 solar modules into the Indonesian Governments remote solar programme.

Successive deliveries of 2000 module shipments have progressed well in 2008 and OPS is planning for further expansion in 2009.

18th November 2008

Optimal Power Solutions advises that the Green Power Corporation (India) 2MW solar power grid connected system to be installed in West Bengal, India will deploy OPS 250 kW power conditioning systems.

The lead contractor is Titan Solar Power from Hyderabad, India.  Eight (8) numbers of these units will be used and managed under a Grid Connect management system developed by OPS. This system uses sequential control of power flow from each inverter so as to achieve maximum system efficiency.

The first one (1) megawatt is due to be installed in January 2009 and OPS anticipates an ongoing annual maintenance contract with Green Power Corporation. OPS will build and deliver these units from its manufacturing centre in Kolkata, India.