How SolarEdge made HD Wave less than half the size of ‘standard’ inverters

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SolarEdge’s Lior Handelsman explains some of the thinking and development processes behind HD Wave, which the publicly-listed Israeli company believes represents a significant leap forward for inverter technology. The product was launched at the beginning of the year, when Handelsman said in another interview for PV Tech that inverters can now “evolve at the speed of electronics, not mechanics”.

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