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Testing and Certification for PV Inverters
Testing and Certification for PV Inverters Intertek — Your Testing Partner Intertek Shanghai and Guangzhou PV inverter laboratories have a full range of professional inverter testing equipment and a number of senior inverter testing engineers, and are laboratories accredited by China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs) and SAA-accredited laboratories, serving the entire Asia-Pacific region and providing global testing and certification services for PV inverters.
● Local equipment and local testing ensure that we have
the shortest test cycle to bring your products to market faster; ● Provide professional technical support and cost-effective,
quality service for you to reduce costs and improve efficiency; ● One-stop
service in various countries and regions helps you open up a variety of ways to enter the international market.
Major International Testing Standards Applicable Standards/Regulations
Target Market North America (the USA and Canada)
Challenge PV inverters are power electronic equipment that is used in the field of solar power generation, converts the direct current generated by PV modules into alternating current fed into the local load or grid, and has the relevant protection function. According to different occasions, PV inverters can be divided into grid-connected inverters and off-grid inverters. PV inverters differ largely in power level, ranging from more than 100 watts for distributed gridconnected micro-inverters to hundreds of kilowatts for centralized grid-connected large inverters. Different grid systems and grid-connected policies in countries around the world involve many testing and certification standards for grid-connected PV inverters, complex requirements, and a longer cycle.
General requirements
Safety: UL 1741; CSA C22.2 No.107.1-01 Software: UL 1998
Grid Connection Requirements
IEEE1547; IEEE1547.1 IEEE C62.41.2; IEEE C62.45-Surge IEEE C90.2 -EMI
FCC
FCC Part 15
Energy efficiency testing
California Energy Efficiency Testing: CEC- 300
European market
With the popularity of the green energy-saving and environmental protection concept, PV products have become a significant concern, showing a trend of rapid development in the domestic and international markets. Governments around the world have increased their domestic policy support for PV grid-connected power generation projects. As the core components of PV power generation applications, grid-connected inverters, which are closely related to power generation efficiency, have a great market potential. Faced with such a good opportunity, it has become an urgent problem for Chinese manufacturers to obtain certification in countries around the world in the shortest possible time and quickly grasp business opportunities.
Safety: IEC / EN 62109 -1; IEC / EN 62109-2 Software: IEC / EN 60730-1 EMC: - EN 61000-6-1; EN 61000 -6 -2 - EN 61000 -6 -3; EN 61000 -6 -4; EN 55011 - EN 61000 -3 -2; EN 61000 -3 -12 - EN 61000 -3 -3; EN 61000 -3 -11 Performance: - IEC 61683 - IEC 62116 - IEC 61727
General requirements
Germany
VDE 0126- 1 - 1; VDE -AR -N - 4105; VDE V 0124- 100
Austria
OVE E- 8001- 4 - 712
Grid Connection
Italy
ENEL 2010 Ed.2.1; CEI 0- 21
Requirements
U.K.
G83; G59
Spain
RD 1663; RD 1699
Other European countries
EN 50438
Efficiency testing
EN 50530
Australian market General requirements
AS / NZS 3100; IEC 62109-1; IEC 62109 -2
Grid-connection requirements
AS / NZS 4777.2; AS / NZS 4777.3
Chinese market
Intertek provides PV grid-connected inverters with European TUV/CE certification
American ETLus certification
Canada cETL certification
China Golden Sun Certification
Australia SAA certification
Testing and certification in other countries and regions
General requirements
CNCA / CTS 0006 -2010
Grid-connection requirements
CNCA / CTS 0004 -2009A
Indian market Energy efficiency requirements
IEC 61683
Environmental requirements
IEC 60068 -2 -1; IEC 60068-2 -2 IEC 60068 -2 -14; IEC 60068-2 -30
