Featured in Solving the PERC puzzle – 12-2015

A shade better?

Maximum Power Point Trackers: The success that module-level power electronics suppliers have enjoyed in some of the world’s strongest solar markets has caught some of the more traditional inverter suppliers by surprise. Can a shift to dual or multi- MPPT string inverters help these companies claw back some of the market share lost to these module-level upstarts?
By
Ian Clover

Two are better than one: In the case of maximum power point trackers (MPPTs), string inverters equipped with dual (or, increasingly, multi) MPPT can reel off a compelling list of just why this technological evolution represents an improvement on single MPPT inverters. Dual or multi-MPPT inverters allow for the installation of arrays with different solar …

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