Featured in Turkey – 04-2014

Smart moves

Inverters: Balance of systems costs are in the solar industry’s cross hairs as the pressure to reduce costs extends downstream. Matt Feinstein, Senior Analyst at Lux Research and lead author of Lux’s report “The Squeeze: Trends in Solar Balance of Systems,” breaks down the recent activities in the inverter space.

In many ways, the solar inverter market lags behind the demand market. Only after module prices crashed and incentives were cut did manufacturers feel similar pressure to reduce their own prices. Just as the module industry went through (and continues to go through) a period of high consolidation, the inverter industry is following. But the …

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