There are two key goals for any solarenergyequipment makers: converting a greater percentage of the sunlight into electricity and cutting production costs.
Fraunhofer also will design a system to allow the solarenergyequipment to check itself for proper installation and to send its power generation data to the local utility.
Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solarenergyequipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
Future generations of solarenergy technologies will produce cheaper and more powerful equipment, but a number of solarenergy technologies are ready for prime time today even without those improvements, especially in states like California where government policies have given them an added boost.
The need to engineer energy storage equipment that could work well with solar or wind power plants has prompted many private and public investments in battery and other storage technologies.