{"id":117052,"date":"2018-01-18T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/?p=117052"},"modified":"2020-10-26T15:56:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:56:46","slug":"tech-tip-how-to-easily-achieve-california-rule-21compliance-with-the-sunny-boy-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/us\/tech-tip-how-to-easily-achieve-california-rule-21compliance-with-the-sunny-boy-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: How to Easily Achieve California Rule 21Compliance with the Sunny Boy-US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) such as PV has increased rapidly over the past few years resulting in concerns about grid reliability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Tech Tip: Configuration of Sunny Boy for CA Rule 21 Phase 1 Settings\" style=\"width:1280px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_qRMOqcKCZho\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qRMOqcKCZho\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRMOqcKCZho\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M34S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-01-10T01:04:29Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_qRMOqcKCZho\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qRMOqcKCZho\/maxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Tech Tip: Configuration of Sunny Boy for CA Rule 21 Phase 1 Settings<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qRMOqcKCZho\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qRMOqcKCZho\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Tech Tip: Configuration of Sunny Boy for CA Rule 21 Phase 1 Settings\" width=\"1280\" height=\"700\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"------------ SMA America - https:\/\/www.SMA-America.com SMA Inverted Blog - https:\/\/www.SMAInverted.com SMA America on Facebook - https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SMAAmerica SMA America on Twitter - https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMA_America Contact - SocialMedia@SMA-America.com SMA Solar Technology AG is a global leader in the development, production and sales of PV inverters and, as an energy management group, offers innovative key technologies for future power supply structures.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:1280px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>California&#8217;s Investor owned utilities (IOUs), through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/Rule21\/\">California Elect<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/Rule21\/\">ric Rule 21<\/a>, are now requiring that inverters come equipped with several new safety features and advanced grid functionalities. 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