SMA America gets boost for Sunny Boy line from Germany

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solar technology giant SMA Technologie AG, the parent company of SMA
America, Inc., has broken ground on an 82,000-square-foot solar
inverter manufacturing plant in Kassel, Germany. The new facility is
designed to triple SMA’s current production capacity to meet the global
demand for its solar inverters. It will support all manufacturing
efforts for SMA America including production of the Sunny Boy
3000US/4000US and Sunny Boy 5000US/6000US/7000US inverters, created
specifically for the American solar market. Construction is expected to
wrap up in the autumn.

“With this new facility, SMA Technologie AG is once again significantly optimizing its manufacturing processes,” says Günther Cramer, CEO of SMA Technologie AG. “At the same time, the plant will set the new standard for the energy efficiency of industrial buildings.”

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The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant will feature an innovative carbon dioxide neutral energy concept. The energy needed for the production process will be supplied exclusively from renewable energy sources, including a building-integrated, 1.1-megawatt photovoltaic system and a regional biogas plant. The building itself will harvest electricity and heat from two gas-powered combined heat and power plants. An absorption refrigeration system will allow the waste heat from these plants to be used for cooling the facility in the summer and heating it during the winter. The plant will also feature natural ventilation systems and natural and artificial lighting systems.
The new manufacturing plant is expected to create about 1,000 new jobs.

“We are very excited about the new manufacturing plant,” says Jeffrey Philpott, Marketing Manager for SMA America. “The increased production capacity of the facility will help SMA America keep up with the enormous demand for its Sunny Boy line of inverters.”

SMA’s successful Sunny Boy line of inverters has reached a total installed base of more than 750,000 units worldwide. Together, these Sunny Boy inverters are able to provide an astonishing aggregate of three billion watts (i.e. three gigawatts) of safe, usable, grid-quality power.

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