Solar inverter manufacturers have been enormous pressure over the past two years, in order to reduce the price of inverters for PV module costs have dropped significantly, resulting in a higher proportion of the inverter becomes BOS costs for energy greater impact overall costs.
Advanced Energy Industries has said that it has begun shipping its new flagship based on its backlog of pipeline to PV project "AE 1000NX'1MW scale modular central inverter transformer 1MW, following more than two years of restructuring, which including the outsourcing of production in China, in order to reduce production costs, while providing a higher product margins of key next-generation products AE.
More and more customers have been installed during the quarter, a new central inverters, including utility-scale ground-mounted and commercial facilities.
The Inverter power strong prices, reflecting the products include a wider range of voltages, so that the production of each power earlier in the day, and allow peak efficiency in order to achieve faster main advantage; two, DC high load factor, the rapid increase of the power; three, 98% efficiency rating of production peak will last longer.
However, management unwilling to provide specific figures, the number and the actual number of quarter unit shipments of its backlog, although financial analysts in a conference call on duplication units. Management also noted that this production on the rise and will reach a "steady state" in the 2014 second quarter. The company has traditionally been heavily dependent on the US portion of revenue in its solar energy utilities and commercial markets. However, management noted that it is seeing growing interest and activity in Mexico and Canada, the central inverter.
The company noted that it has also developed a three-phase string solor pv inverter for the booming Japanese market, but is expected to launch in the first half of 2014. The company reported sales growth of solar energy in 2013 to 16 percent in 2012, to $ 250 million, compared with $ 217 million, helped by the acquisition of REFUSOL.
However, sales of solar energy in the fourth quarter 2013 US $ 64.9 million, down 4 percent from the previous quarter. The company as a whole made a net loss of US $ 1.5 million in the quarter of $ 14.6 million a year. AE Solar expects sales in the first quarter of 2014, affected by seasonal factors, partly by demand for new products offset.
SMA has formed a new R & D projects in Germany, making new breakthroughs in innovative photovoltaic inverter concept, will focus on the cooling and packaging of progress to improve the conversion efficiency, cost and service life, which is the key of BOS the cost of photovoltaic power generation system. The project is said to be 1.4 € billion deutsche Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of its "power electronics technology to improve energy efficiency - Part 2: Electronic energy future" part to support initiatives.
SMA Solar Technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials and Phoenix has formed a research and development program is called "PV package." PV package is aimed at making alternative refrigeration technologies and materials breakthroughs, and advanced packaging solutions, the drive within the range of 10-40 kilowatts.
SMA Solar said it was responsible for coordinating the photovoltaic package, which aims to maintain competition in the German section of the inverter manufacturers and parts suppliers in the competitive position of the photovoltaic industry. According to the statement, a typical three-phase photovoltaic inverter mechanical and electromechanical components 70% support system is needed to cool the hot electrical components, reliability and long life to suppress a major degradation factor.
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