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Getting energized

MLPE vs. String, Part II: Last month pv magazine explored the recent developments within the module level power electronics (MLPE) space for part I of its three part focus on the future of the solar inverter landscape. For part II, attention turns to how string inverter suppliers are responding to the growing market threat posed by MLPE players, and examines just how MLPE suppliers are hoping to maintain their recent growth trajectory.

By

Ian Clover

11 May 2016

Solar’s hypothetical canary must be feeling quite dizzy. The past few months have been rather rough on the fabled bird, being forced to flit from one ‘crisis’ to the next, each time with the cry that this shift, really, marks the unfolding of a real “canary in a coal mine” scenario. From Hanergy to SunEdison, …

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