inverters

Chinese inverter manufacturer Sungrow has officially opened a new manufacturing facility in India.

The US threat of 10% tariffs on solar inverters has been met with a mixture of disdain and composure by authorities and the Chinese solar industry itself.

Inverter manufacturer GoodWe has launched a trio of new products on the show floor at Intersolar Europe in Munich, particularly taking aim at the bifacial module market.

SolarEdge is seeking damages, an injunction and a recall of products it claims have been built using its intellectual property.

Israel-headquartered SolarEdge launched a software platform for aggregating household energy storage units - and other distributed energy equipment - into virtual power plants, last week. The company’s solution has already been chosen for a VPP project in Australia by AGL, one of the country’s biggest utilities. The commercial launch of the VPP platform direct to customers is now underway. Energy-Storage.News editor Andy Colthorpe spoke with Lior Handelsman, one of SolarEdge’s founders and vice president of marketing and product strategy.

Inverter shipments in Europe suggest the continent is braced for another strong period of growth in 2018.

PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow and energy storage system integrator / software specialist Greensmith are working on the first community solar-plus-storage project to be delivered in the US state of Massachusetts.

SMA America, the US subsidiary of SMA Solar Technology, has entered into a purchase agreement with residential solar installer Sunrun to be a key supplier for residential PV solutions.

Inverter manufacturer Growatt is planning for growth beyond the borders of its native China and its traditional focus of PV products with a push in the US and the energy storage market.

SolarPower Europe has continued its digitalisation crusade with the launch of 10 requests for policymakers.