Featured in A Teutonic shift – 02-2018

Scaling up MLPE

Module-level power electronics: Technology that many thought of only as a handy way to overcome rooftop shading is now branching out further and more deeply into large-scale solar installations. pv magazine asks SolarEdge Founder and VP of Marketing and Product Strategy Lior Handelsman why the solar industry is now beginning to embrace MLPE at scale, and what the benefits and implications can be for system owners.

By

Ian Clover

14 Feb 2018

Lior Handelsman is the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy at SolarEdge. He is also the Founder of the global inverter company.

pv magazine: MLPE at utility scale has for so long been dismissed out of hand as being too expensive. Is it now time to reassess that notion?Lior Handelsman: Just as the inverter landscape in the commercial PV market is rapidly evolving, the utility-scale market is also seeing changes. This evolution is being driven by the …

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