Build Own Operate (BOO) business model allows a system provider to install a system on the customer’s premises and sell the power to the customer. In this arrangement, the system provider would bear the capital expenditure for the solar unit,…
BIPV – Building Integrated Photovoltaics – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
As the name suggests, it is the integration of Photovoltaics into the building envelope. Here the PV system provides two functions; it acts as the building skin and it produces electricity. In many cases of Building Integrated Photovoltaics, the PV…
Battery Storage – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
Where solar power needs to be used when the sun does not shine, it is usually stored in batteries. These are the same batteries used for other applications, and could be based on lead-acid, lithium-ion, etc. However, only some select…
Balance of System (BOS) – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
All the parts of a PV system excluding the solar module. BoS comprises the complete PV operating system, including the inverter, mounting structures, cables, and connectors. Off-grid systems include charge controllers and batteries for electricity storage.
AMC (Annual Maintenance contract) – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
Annual Maintenance Contract in short AMC is a service provided by solar companies to customers at a cost that helps keep their plants in proper working condition after free product services offered by the company are completed. AMCs for solar plants are typically not…
ACDB (AC Distribution Board) – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
A distribution board (also known as panelboard or breaker panel) is a component of an electricity supply system which divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits, while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit. The ACDB receives the AC power from the solar inverter and directs it to…
Anti-Islanding – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
When a power failure occurs, a portion of the grid isn’t energised. This non-energised portion of the grid is known as an island. If the solar plant is pumping electricity into this non-energised portion of the grid during a power…
Alternating Current – Definition, Glossary, Details – Solar Mango
AC (Alternating Current, as opposed to DC, Direct Current) is the electricity flow type. The solar panel converts photons (particles of sunlight) into electrons of Direct Current (“DC”) electricity. Solar power inverters take the Direct Current (DC) that the solar…
