Inverters

The Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) latest white paper on solar and storage manufacturing includes an interactive map. It shows that momentum has started to build for a transformational expansion of domestic solar and storage manufacturing.

The Chinese inverter maker plans to build both new factories in China’s Zhejiang province.

The European Union is working on a draft proposal, which pv magazine has seen, that would require 85% of the components used in European wind farms – along with 60% of heat pumps, 85% of batteries, and 85% of electrolyzers – to be manufactured on the continent.

BayWa AG is strategically realigning BayWa re so it can sell its solar trade business. In the future, the subsidiary will focus on international projects as an independent power producer (IPP).

China’s Guangzhou Sanjing Electric (SAJ) has developed a new line of battery inverters in single-phase and three-phase configurations.

Zigor has developed a modular central inverter that can convert AC power to DC power for battery charging. It has an output of 3.3 MVA and a DC voltage of up to 1,500 V.

The US Court of Appeals has ruled that an 80 MW (AC)/160 MW (DC) solar farm, with 50 MW of battery storage, meets “Qualifying Facility” status of 80 MW (AC) or less under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978.

On the first day of Spain’s Genera tradeshow, pv magazine spoke with Joan Groizard Payeras, Managing Director of Spain’s IDEA (Instituto para la Diversificación y el Ahorro de la Energía) about the current state of solar manufacturing in Spain, and what the government is doing to the make its domestic industry more competitive.

Sunwiz has revealed the leading rooftop solar and inverter manufacturers in Australia for 2022.

GCL-SI says it will build a new 12 GW solar manufacturing facility in China’s Jiangsu province, while Growatt has opened a factory with an annual capacity of 500,000 inverters and 100,000 batteries in Vietnam.