Abstract
Future trends in PV inverters & PV installation design. Impact on market, players and industry.
OBJECTIVES OF THE REPORT
This report presents the existing PV inverter solutions with the evolution of
the main parameters:
- size,
- efficiency,
- cost and reliability.
The reader will be able to understand the main technical challenges, current
solutions and future trends regarding those parameters.
This report also includes an important topic, which has only recently appeared
as a key point for PV inverter business: the evolution of its environment.
PV plants can have highly diversified structures due to:
- local configuration,
- shadows,
- distance between buildings,
- available area,
- size of the installation...
Thus, one of the objectives of this report is to understand the trends for
those architectures, and see their impact on PV inverter systems and on
strategy of the suppliers active in this arena.
Inverter market forecasts presented following our segmentation: residential;
industrial; commercial; and, solar farms - are analyzed taking into account
the 2009 crisis and impact on PV industry. We further divide the data into 4
Regions: Europe, North America, Asia, Rest of world
The report also includes a review of the main players:
- 5 profiles of different company strategies in the PV inverter industry
- Analysis of the vertical integration of PV industry
- Market share of main players
BIO
Brice Le Gouic works at Yole Developpement on market and technology
analysis in the fields of power electronics and related applicative markets.
He was granted a Master of Science degree in semiconductor physics and
microelectronics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse,
France.
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