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Community Solar Doesn’t Connect Without Proper Power Engineering | These 1–5 MW ground mount systems may look small—but they’re held to utility-scale level standards. From MV design and power studies to utility coordination, we ensure every community solar project is built to energize on time and on budget. | Avoid redesigns, rejections, and delays. | Gain a team that gets it right the first time. | Let’s build smarter and power communities—together. | 🎥 Watch how Pure Power Engineering supports community solar from low to medium voltage and beyond.
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Community solar is transforming how people access clean energy, bringing solar power to renters, families and entire communities that have never had it before. Behind every subscriber sign-up and ribbon cutting is something far more technical and absolutely essential to project success. far more technical and absolutely essential to project success. That's power engineering. At Pure Power Engineering we've supported hundreds of community solar projects and we've seen one thing hold true across all of them. If power engineering isn't solid the project doesn't connect. Most community solar systems fail in the 1 to 5 megawatt range. Don't let the size fool you. They're held to utility level standards. They usually interconnect at medium voltage export energy to the grid and must meet utility requirements typically reserved for much larger systems. That's where power engineering comes in. Let's break down what that means. First interconnection studies. Before a project is approved utilities want to know, will this system cause voltage flicker? Can the local transformer handle the fault current? Will it back feed into the grid or trip other protection devices? Power engineers run detailed simulations like Power engineers run detailed simulations like load flow, short circuit, grounding, harmonics. All to ensure everything works safely from the inverter to the utility pole. Second medium voltage design. Community solar projects often connect at 13.2 kV or 15 kV. That changes everything. Our power engineering team designs MV switch gears, protection relays, grounding systems, transformer specs, relay settings for proper coordination. One error in this part of the design and your system could face delays or worse, get rejected by the utility. Third utility coordination. Strong power engineering isn't just about calculations. It's about communication. Every utility wants to see something different in your submittals. One lines, relay trip points, remote shut off logic, metering design, anti-islanding controls. Knowing what to submit and who to talk to can cut weeks or even months off your approval timeline. Without proper power engineering we've seen projects hit hard stops. They've had rejected our connection applications expensive redesigns after equipment was already purchased. Coordination issues that show up during commissioning. Utility required upgrades that weren't anticipated. These aren't just technical issues. They're financial. They can impact investors and long term return on investment. At Pure Power we bring power engineering into the process from day one. We handle the full electrical scope from low voltage conduit routing to medium voltage protective schemes. We coordinate directly with utilities generate stamp drawings and stay involved through commissioning. When your system goes live without delays that's when the value of good engineering is crystal clear. Community solar is about connecting more people to clean power. Power engineering is what makes that connection possible. So if you want a system that's designed to interconnect right the first time we're ready to help. Let's build smarter and power communities together. Contact Pure Power
Engineering for more information.
