The price and manufacturers in solar inverter market

There are two main solar inverters in the market now, independent solar inverters and Grid tied solar inverter: independent solar inverters are used in the system, rather than to grid. Inverter absorb energy from the solar power source. Many independent inverter is attached batteries.

Grid tied solar inverter is a plurality of solar inverter is designed to be connected to the utility grid, and does not operate in that they do not detect the presence of the grid. They contain special circuitry to precisely match the voltage and frequency of the grid. Grid-tie inverter is designed to automatically shut down in the city lost, for security reasons. They are not practical outages.

In the solar inverter market is seeing price competition and even solar panels have begun to stabilize increasing pressure. The solar inverter solar module manufacturers is not much room to reduce, as most panel makers still a loss and gross margin remained close to double-digit levels low price.

But in the past few years, the dominant player in the inverter, such as SMA Solar have seen their share and profitability of Chinese enterprises to enter the field. Relatively slow to enter the competition, but with the increasing importance of the Asian market, lower-cost Chinese enterprises to rapidly increase its market share. This leads to a consolidation of the western solar inverter industry, such as the company's Power-One company was acquired by ABB bankruptcy and smaller inverter manufacturers. Even larger, such as SMA Solar are not spared.

SMA Solar, Germany's largest solar company lost market share to the new solar inverter manufacturers in the United States and China. SMA Solar held a dominant 40% of the global solar inverter market share in 2010, compared with none of the management of more than 10% market share in the solar panel manufacturer. However, SMA Solar feel the heat of competition, solar prices continue to decline steadily. Chinese solar inverter business has captured the global market share of large-scale block, because foreign companies have a tough time competing in China.

This will become increasingly difficult solar inverter business, with 2013 revenue is expected to shrink due to a substantial erosion of the average price of solar inverter. Even in the amount of the increase, prices have come down overall revenue erosion means that the following formula: Volume X Price = revenue IHS report, the solar inverter revenue fell 9 percent this year, the average selling price of utilities have in frequency market fell sharply. 

The price of solar inverter utility market is 12C / W, in Western markets, they are 50% lower in India and China, such as low-cost market. This shows that the pain will continue for the solar inverter company, we may see more bankruptcies in the Western world, companies can not compete in this price. Western companies will bring the best service by moving its Asia-Pacific manufacturing center, otherwise it will reach the same fate as the solar module companies, such as Q-Cells and Solarworld's company. This will also help them to better serve customers, the largest solar markets, such as Japan and China. SMA Solar has purchased a Chinese solar inverter company, but it remains to be seen if it can be completely on their own transition to a targeted strategy in Asia.

Solar inverter sales for a wide range depending on the quality, brand and the features. In general European solar inverter SMA, Xantrex company sold a higher price than from China makers. The Chinese solar inverter is the cheapest price you can buy a five kilowatts of solar inverter $ 1,500 compared to $ 5,000 from SMA. Power a premium solar inverter falls in between, it provides better quality and reliability compared to China and sales at a lower price as well.