Huawei supplying first fully-digitalized utility-scale solar project in Brazil

April 16, 2018
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Leading PV inverter manufacturer Huawei is supplying its string inverters to a 75MW fully-digitalized utility-scale PV project in Brazil, said to be the first of its kind in the country. Image: Huawei

Leading PV inverter manufacturer Huawei is supplying its string inverters to a 75MW fully-digitalized utility-scale PV project in Brazil, said to be the first of its kind in the country.

Huawei noted that the project was for AES Tietê, a subsidiary of AES Corporation, a strategic partner of Huawei.

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Henry Xia, General Manager for Huawei FusionSolar Latin America Business said, “Things nowadays are getting more and more connected, 5G, cloud-computing and digitalization are happening globally in every industry, so does solar. We fully believe that, with Huawei FusionSolar Smart PV Solution, which demonstrating the global advanced natural cooling and multi-level topology technology, this project can contribute to Brazil solar industry with higher yields, lower LCOE, smart O&M and safe & reliable experiences, making digitalization be a trend of this industry.”

AES Corporation has renewable projects in development or under construction in the US, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador and Jordan.

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