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circuits and power components are readily packaged in 

 the support leg hold a clomping device. Converting to 

 a loH-voltage and higher frequency A-C output within 

 the proprietary SVUG allows smaller transformer 

 components in the coupler and in the balance-of-plant . 

 It avoids the serious problems encountered in most 

 current PV power plants of high-voltage D-C series 

 groups of matched-sets of PV power modules. 



As shown in the following Photograph of o portion of 

 the Interface Substation with one SVUG plugged-in at a 

 Power/SCADA Coupler, the Interface Substation uses 

 engineering, components, construction and maintenance 

 common to the poner distribution engineering and 

 service-yards at a local power company. It is 

 incrementally installed, perhaps on some local tilled 

 land in a utility/farmer agreement. The SVG Plant can 

 be supplemented and go on line as sections are added to 

 meet some new local load or to earn more billing- 

 credits for a preference-utility on the BPA system. It 

 is not a turn-key plant waiting on a plant completion 

 date while accumulating interest during construction 

 costs; being engineered and constructed by an 

 Architectural & Engineering firm. The gathering of 

 electrical energy from thousands of SVUGs arrayed over 

 a large area is similar in apparatus and energy-density 

 to the distribution of electrical energy in an urban 

 area . 



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