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New training centre opened at SMA Solar Academy

Solar inverter manufacturer, SMA Solar Technology, has inaugurated a new training centre at the SMA Solar Academy in Niestetal close to Kassel (Germany). The innovative building, which uses electricity supplied via a stand-alone solar photovoltaic (PV) system and is therefore independent from the power distribution grid, will be used for training of over 15,000 seminar participants per annum.

SMA Solar Technology runs solar PV and inverter training courses for installers and electrically skilled engineers as well as plant planners, architects and sales personnel at the SMA Solar Academy. This training is available free of charge and is individually tailored to meet the requirements of any target group.

SMA reveals that the new training centre has been established in order to cope with the large demand for its courses, offering four training rooms equipped with the latest technology that can accommodate up to 120 participants at a time. The facility can also be used for larger events.

The new building of the SMA Solar Academy is equipped with a special power supply system where different power sources are intelligently combined with system technology from SMA. The training centre is supplied with electricity by photovoltaic panels on the roof and facade. A further nine photovoltaic tracking systems nearby that normally feed their power to the power distribution grid can also be integrated into the building-integrated system in order to support the power supply when necessary.

Biogas power

A biogas-fuelled combined heat and power plant is also used to produces heat and carbon-neutral electricity when the PV plants do not supply enough power. Surplus power from this system and from the PV plants is stored in high capacity batteries. These batteries can supply the entire building with electricity over a period of five hours even when fully occupied. The batteries are connected to twelve Sunny Island inverters from SMA that control the entire stand-alone grid of the training centre.

The entire high-tech energy system is also on display to visitors behind a glass wall, where the public can view the different devices and the accompanying battery room. Furthermore, the futuristic building is cooled with ground water through heat exchangers connected to the ventilation system.

"The new training centre of the SMA Solar Academy is a very good example for grid independent energy supply based on renewable energies and with system technology from SMA", says Günther Cramer, CEO of SMA Solar Technology AG. "The technology used here is also perfectly suitable for remote areas without access to any power distribution grid. It is an ideal solution for developing or emerging countries where over 2 billion people still have no access to a reliable electricity source."

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