Inverters

PV Tech's live coverage of SNEC 2021 continues on day three of the exhibition, featuring interviews with industry heavyweights such as Tongwei, Trina Solar and JinkoSolar.

Exclusive coverage from the second day of the SNEC PV Power Expo 2021, live from Shanghai, featuring interviews with some of the industry’s leading players.

Major PV inverter manufacturer SolarEdge Technologies has guided a return to overall business growth in 2021, due primarily to strong market demand in Europe and the US as well as the rollout of its residential energy storage product.

German PV solutions provider IBC Solar is adding microinverters and energy storage systems from Enphase Energy to its product portfolio.

TE Connectivity (TE) has launched a new plug and splice connector that is intended to reduce installation steps for PV power plants.

Sungrow has provided its central inverters to a 187MW solar project in Germany that has been developed by utility EnBW without state funding.

FIMER has introduced its new PVS-10/33-TL three-phase string inverter solution that is designed to cater for the increasing demand for flexibility in commercial and industrial sectors.

With three years of financial and business data available, we can start to analyse a number of possible trends, one of these is the changing landscape surrounding Sunnova's supplier base for PV modules, inverters and energy storage.

Major PV inverter manufacturer SolarEdge Technologies reported year-on-year revenue growth of just 2.4% in 2020, compared to growth rates of over 50% per annum in recent years.

Leading microinverter supplier Enphase Energy reported record full-year revenue and shipments in 2020, driven by an ongoing transformation in its contract manufacturing supply chain that will enable the company to supply between 16 million to 20 million microinverter units in 2021, should demand allow.