Featured in Empowered with PV – 12-2017

Central solutions

Interview: While the recent surge of using string inverters for large-scale solar installations certainly energized the inverter industry, centralized solutions are holding firm as more and more emerging markets continue to eye huge solar farms. Zhang Lei, Chief Engineer of Chinese inverter specialist TBEA, explains the company’s strategy.
Zhang Lei, PhD, is the Chief Engineer of TBEA Xi’an Electric Technology Co. Ltd.

pv magazine: There appear to be many routes toward inverter innovation currently, with some companies eager to pursue string at scale. TBEA has instead doubled-down on its centralized solutions, so can you explain why you feel that TBEA’s central inverters can continue to meet the demands of the market?Zhang Lei: With our R&D and manufacturing experience …

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