Looking to offer a little bit of savings to your customers? Yaskawa-Solectria sent word that it is offering $25 rebates on its lineup of residential inverters, when purchased through its distribution partners, as part of its autumn sale. Those include: • PVI 3800TL • PVI 5200TL • PVI 6600TL •Read More

Ideal Power Inc. is an innovator of power conversion technologies and just announced that its semiconductor foundry partner has successfully completed prototypes of its Bi-Directional Bi-Polar Junction TRANsistor (B-TRAN). We dove into the unique properties of its B-TRAN semiconductor when it was first introduced. Ideal Power holds over 20 patents onRead More

TimberRock Energy Solutions, the R&D and product development subsidiary of TimberRock Advanced Energy,  announced a new energy storage platform called REH-FLEX. Although solar panels, electric vehicles and battery storage are transforming the electrical grid into a bi-directional energy network, the inverters used to move energy in-between these resources and theRead More

Alencon Systems LLC been selected to join the recently formed Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Working Group. Alencon’s DC-DC optimizers and monitoring software are aimed at improving existing PV plant performance ratios — the ratio of the electricity generated to the electricity that would have been generated if theRead More

The rapid evolution of module-level electronics has spiked performance, extended reliability and crushed manufacturing prices, but there is still a ways to go before the operation and maintenance of the technology is satisfactory to all the players involved. “When people talk about the business model for solar microinverters or optimizers,Read More

Sungrow showcased the SG2500-MV central inverter and the new SG60KTL string inverter, at the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia 2016 (IGEM 2016). Sungrow’s central inverter SG2500-MV is best characterized by its cost effectiveness and highly reliable containerized design. The 20-foot container design reduces the costs ofRead More