Huawei: Smart solar can defer costly grid investment

By John Parnell

June 19, 2017

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Huawei's Matthias Wagner speaks to PV Tech at Intersolar 2017 about the changing trends in PV, the growing role for data management and the impact this has on the wider grid.

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