On September 26, Chinese state-owned utility Huanghe Hydropower Development (hereafter “Huanghe Hydropower”) successfully connected the 2.2 GW PV plant to the power grid in Hainan Prefecture, northwestern China’s Qinghai Province. This is the world’s first ultra-high voltage power line that delivers 100% renewable energy over long distances and also the world’s largest single-site renewable […]
SolarEdge, Enphase Hit by Sharp Slowdown in Solar Installations During Pandemic’s Depths
Orders are rising again in the U.S. solar market, but “the rate of that recovery is questionable,” says SolarEdge CEO Zvi Lando. Residential solar inverter rivals SolarEdge and Enphase faced the same headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter, with both companies reporting a downturn in Q2 revenue. However, both companies also laid out […]
WoodMac: Global Solar Market Set to Resume Growth in 2021 as Coronavirus Impact Fades
After a pause in 2020, the global solar market looks set to chart new heights each year in the 2021-2025 period. The global solar market is expected to stay nearly flat between 2019 and 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impacts, according to Wood Mackenzie. But a significant increase in demand is now […]
MNRE Extends date for comments on draft Standard for PV Grid Tie Inverters up to 7th May 2020
Extension of date for providing comments/inputs on the draft Standard on “Technical requirements for Photovoltaic Grid Tie Inverters to be connected to the Utility Grid in India” up to 7th May 2020 For more information please see below link:
Huawei, Sungrow and SMA Were the Top Solar Inverter Players in 2019
A rise in solar PV inverter retrofits contributed to the market’s 18 percent growth last year. Huawei, Sungrow and SMA remained the solar inverter market leaders for the fifth year running, based on a new Wood Mackenzie report on the inverter market in 2019. These top three vendors have now held the same positions from […]
One More Time, With Feeling: GE’s Latest Approach to Energy Storage
After a long evolution, GE now sees integrating batteries with renewables or gas turbines as its best place to add value. Century-old electric technology company GE kicked off 2019 with yet another reorg. The workhorse Power division was split up, to start. Though still a top supplier of the world’s natural-gas turbines, the division had […]
Panel Discussion on Inverters- 4 part 1 Inverters
European-scale PV project: KSTAR has provided inverters to 240 MW Pokrovska SPP in Ukraine
With DTEK’s invitation, Kstar joined an opening ceremony at Ukraine on Oct 31, which helped the partners and KSTAR to celebrate the significant milestone of 240 MW Pokrovska SPP in Ukraine. KSTAR provides a turnkey solution (96 units of GSM2500C-MV35) to the 240 MW Pokrovska SPP in Ukraine. The Pokrovska Solar Power Plant, as the […]
Massachusetts Storage Market Imperiled by Requirement to Buy New Utility Meters
Should solar customers have to pay for a new meter to measure their generation, or is their own smart inverter good enough? Massachusetts rolled out a new incentive last year to spur solar and energy storage adoption, but installers are worried that a technical requirement could foil the goals of the program. The Solar Massachusetts […]
Sungrow adds to +700 ESS system deliveries with 30MW Germany project
Sungrow, best known as a maker of solar inverters, has been awarded a contract to supply complete energy storage systems (ESS) to a 30MW / 30MWh project in Germany, split across three sites. The company is by various metrics a market leader in the global supply of solar inverters for larger-scale applications. In a recent […]