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TECHNICAL NOTE KEEPING THE GRID STABLE Power grids that enjoy a comparatively high level of distributed power generation assets are struggling to address the potential threats to power quality and grid stability that independent distributed power production can bring. Chief among those challenges are (1) nearly harmonic free continuous current injection onto the grid, (2) dynamic voltage support, (3) grid frequency stabilization, and (4) Fault-Ride-Through (FRT) capability. Up to now, the solutions available to the power utility grid provider have been to limit the further deployment of distributed solar electric systems, or to strictly permit only traditional, less-productive string-based centralized inverters on PV arrays. Sparq’s Q1000 offers an entirely new tool to power utilities in the form of a remotely- controllable microinverter that provides adjustable real and reactive power to the grid and autonomous FRT operation. In addition, Sparq’s Q1000 injects nearly harmonic-free continuous current onto the power grid. This capability, along with Sparq’s patented high-frequency inverter design, addresses all of the grid power quality and stability concerns mentioned above: • The Q1000’s operation derives timing from the AC grid and shifts the phase between the AC voltage and AC current waveforms in accordance with the requirements of remote control signals enabling the real and reactive power control; • Complex mathematical implementations provide easy autonomous FRT capability without the use of additional hardware; • Sparq’s patented MPPT approach eliminates “burst mode” operation and thereby enables a smooth, continuous current waveform to be inserted on the AC grid in accordance with the rem