Featured in Europe’s solar reshuffle – 11-2014

A transformative tipping point

Ranking inverter suppliers: The shifting sands of the global inverter landscape have shuffled the pack a little, but with SMA a familiar face at the top of the tree – albeit with a drastically diminished global market share – just how tumultuous has 2014 been for the world’s leading inverter suppliers?

For a technology that deals with the rapid conversion of direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) at lightning speeds, actual change in the global inverter market appears glacial in comparison. At the end of 2012, a disintegration of the sector supplier stranglehold was not so much on the cards but already happening: Germany’s SMA …

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