Webinar Recap – Accelerating 2030.5 & 1547 Certification – How QualityLogic is Advancing Interoperability and Conformance

SunSpec Alliance recently hosted an insightful technical webinar featuring QualityLogic, the official SunSpec Test Software Provider, who shared their essential role in streamlining IEEE 2030.5 and IEEE 1547 certification processes.

As Distributed Energy Resource (DER) deployments rapidly increase, the webinar highlighted the growing necessity for validated, interoperable, and standards-compliant solutions. QualityLogic experts provided a comprehensive exploration of how their advanced software tools, expert test development, and longstanding collaboration with SunSpec significantly accelerate certification timelines, ensuring manufacturers can deploy certified solutions swiftly and confidently.

Key topics covered during the session included:

• QualityLogic’s substantial contributions to SunSpec initiatives, notably in developing CSIP Test Procedures, IEEE 1547 testing standards, J3072, and SunSpec Modbus.
• Their leadership and technical support in launching and sustaining the CSIP Certification Program in partnership with SunSpec since 2018.
• Detailed product demonstrations covering IEEE 2030.5/CSIP, IEEE 1547, and Modbus Conformance Test tools, showcasing practical applications and efficiencies.
• An interactive live Q&A session featuring QualityLogic experts Steve Kang, James Mater, and William Martins, who addressed participant queries and provided valuable insights.

This webinar provided actionable insights and demonstrations beneficial to engineers, developers, compliance managers, and product teams navigating DER certification.

Missed the session or looking to revisit key moments? Access the webinar resources below:

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Moderator: 

Dylan Tansy, Executive Director, SunSpec Alliance

Dylan Tansy is the Executive Director of SunSpec Alliance, bringing over a decade of experience in advancing standards and collaboration within the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) industry. Having spent 10 years with SunSpec, he played a pivotal role in growing the organization’s influence through his leadership in membership services.

Speakers: 

Steve Kang, QualityLogic General Manager, Smart Energy

Steve is a leading technical expert on IEEE 2030.5 and CA Rule 21 based Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP) implementation guide. He is QualityLogic’s General Manager for Smart Energy and responsible for delivering leading testing products and services for the Smart Energy industry.

James Mater, QualityLogic Director of Strategy, Smart Energy

James is one of the industry-leading experts on smart grid standards, interoperability, and the maturity of eco-systems of products based on these standards.  He is a member of IEEE 2030.5 WG, IEEE 1547 WG, UL 1741 SC, SunSpec J3072 Profile, OpenADR Profile WG, CharIN NACI WGs and Focus Groups, Chair of the V2G Forum and more.

William Martins, QualityLogic Compliance Engineer

William is QualityLogic’s lead compliance engineer with extensive experience testing inverters for UL 1741 compliance testing. He has nearly 10 years of industry experience performing compliance testing of smart inverters for various regional codes.