Featured in Embracing change – 02-2020

sonnen goes local

Australia’s strong residential rooftop PV market segment has long been seen as ripe for the picking for battery storage suppliers. But things have been somewhat slow to develop, due to the capital outlay and hangovers from former rooftop subsidy schemes. This hasn’t stopped Germany’s sonnen from setting up battery assembly at a recently defunct car factory in South Australia, which sonnen Australia’s CEO Nathan Dunn sees as a good news story for the sector.

By

Jonathan Gifford

10 Feb 2020

Nathan Dunn joined sonnen Australia in October 2018. Previously he headed up U.S. microinverter supplier Enphase’s Australian activities. | Image: pv magazine/Dave Tacon

How was demand for residential battery storage in Australia in 2019?I refer to 2019 as a steady state. I don’t believe there was any significant growth over 2018. The primary reason [as to] why I see it as being steady state is that there is not a lot of education being done with the end …

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