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Solar batteries and safety: an essential guide

Solar battery storages, like any other battery-powered devices are designed with safety in mind. They are used to store excess...
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Battery storage efficiency: How to gauge long-term profitability of the PV system?

More and more households consider investing in a battery to complement their solar system or have already done so, because...
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Service Tip: SMA PUK – How to Regain Access to Your System Data

You can now obtain a PUK (Personal Unblocking Key) free of charge in the SMA Online Service Center. If you...
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Your guide to commissioning the Sunny Boy with a cable connection

In this guide, we'll walk you through the process step by step.
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Service Tip: Getting the Most out of the SMA Energy App

The display, in particular, plays an important role for users of the SMA Energy app, which is reason enough to focus on making further improvements to it in development. In this post, we will tell you about the latest features and how to make the best use of the graph view.
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Service Tip: Simple Steps for Installing the SMA Energy App

Control, visualize and optimize energy flows – and of course intelligently charge your electric vehicle – with the SMA Energy app. More than 700,000 users are already using our SMA Energy app to manage their home energy systems. This service tip will help you with the installation.
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New training concept for central inverter maintenance

It's all in the mix: In the new "blended learning" format, the SMA Solar Academy is now combining digital and analog maintenance training for the Sunny Central and Sunny Central Storage central inverters. There are only two days of classroom training at the Solar Academy. Prior to that, the theory will be provided on four half days as remote training. "This is more flexible, fits better into everyday work and family life, and the participants save on accommodation costs," says Academy trainer Jan Rössler.
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Service tip: How to replace your old data logger

The following step-by-step instructions explain how system operators can easily modernize their PV system with a new data logger. So here’s how to replace SMA Sunny WebBox with SMA Data Manager M.
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Service tip: SMA EV Charger etc. – The Benefits of the Latest Updates

Whether charging multiple electric vehicles, protecting the SMA EV Charger against unauthorized access or allowing you to use lots more new features, the upcoming e-mobility updates in SMA Energy Systems Home will offer a whole range of new and highly practical features. This article tells you more about the latest features available with the SMA EV Charger, Sunny Home Manager 2.0 and SMA Energy app along with some things you need to bear in mind.
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PV plant repowering made easy with Sunny Design

Improved performance, better availability of spare parts and use of the latest technologies as well as analysis and monitoring tools – there are many arguments in favor of modernizing existing PV power plants. However, the complexity of such a project scares many system operators off, but a repowering project does not have to be labor-intensive. The SunnyDesign web portal provides an easy way to create a modernization plan for your own PV power plant in just a few clicks.
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