Featured in Empowered with PV – 12-2017

Preparation, automation, consolidation

The future for MLPE: After a year of relatively stable prices for inverters, the next few years are likely to see the return of fierce cost reduction – which could spell trouble for the module level power electronics (MLPE) space. However, growth in this segment is expected, so how are the market leaders balancing innovation and trend adoption while shoring up their bottom lines?

By

Ian Clover

08 Dec 2017

In early November, GTM Research’s inverter expert Scott Moskowitz unleashed a “tweet storm” on twitter that broke down the key findings of the company’s Global Solar PV Landscape H2 report. Most strikingly, Moskowitz wrote that current inverter technology trends “have not exhausted their cost-reduction potential,” with the growth of 1,500 volt architectures poised to exert further …

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