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SMAde in Australia

Producing PV project components locally can send a powerful message to policymakers: Build renewables, and the jobs will come.

By

Jonathan Gifford

09 Oct 2018

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In July, SMA and the Wilson Transformer Company announced that they will be assembling the Power Skid Australia 5500 central inverter, transformer product at Wilson’s production facility in Wodonga, Victoria. | Image: SMA

In September, German solar battery supplier sonnen provided more details on its previously-announced plan to produce its residential storage units in South Australia. The company will utilize a former Holden manufacturing facility – Holden being the iconic General Motors brand in the country. The site itself was prescient, pointing to a potential new manufacturing future for …

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