Featured in The Array Changers – 06-2015

Asias inverter expansion

Inverters: Having spent years building expertise and sales channels in domestic markets, many of the leading inverter suppliers from China and Japan have begun to branch out overseas. With their home markets largely secure from foreign infiltration, do these would-be inverter giants have what it takes to capture global revenues in the same way as their fellow cell and module counterparts?

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Ian Clover

02 Jun 2015

As drops in the ocean go, 430 MW of a 5.89 GW order book is a mere ripple amid the waves. But for Chinese inverter supplier Sungrow, that former figure represented the company’s best year yet for global inverter shipments. Despite accounting for less than 10% of the company’s shipment volumes in 2014, Sungrow’s international …

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