Another firm that stands to benefit from renewable production is Xantrex, a little-known Canadian producer of electric inverters.
Every hybrid motor needs an inverter, and the key component inside inverters is the integrated gate bipolar transistor, or IGBT.
The SP package is equipped with a high-capacity drive inverter and twin 10-kilowatt-hour charging inverters for rapid recharge (about four hours).
Inverters and microinverters convert the direct current (DC) power produced by solar panels into alternating current (AC) used in homes and businesses.
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They basically make solar inverters, which are really simple pieces of equipment.
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The microgrid comprises eight 100-kW grid-tied inverters, the rooftop PV array, the lead-acid battery pack, backup diesel generators, and a Web-based monitoring and control system.
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Yet it's scarcely visible in the market for solar panel inverters, devices that turn the direct current power generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Satcon (SATC) provides inverters to the large scale utility industry.
Traditional inverters gather power from all or most of the panels in an installation and use transformers, capacitors and switches to change it from direct current to alternating current.
Enphase has to convince installers that an upfront price premium of 20% or so for Enphase inverters is worth the additional power and other side benefits its microinverters can deliver.
Enphase Energy has made a mark in the world of solar by developing small scale inverters called microinverters that make installation easier and improve the performance of rooftop solar panels.
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Now Enphase, a private company based north of San Francisco in Petaluma, is announcing it has formed a distribution deal with Siemens, which already sells inverters used for larger solar applications.
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The company has certainly been hot: On the heels of its first year of sales in 2009, it grabbed 12.6% share of the U.S. market for inverters in the first quarter of this year.
GaN switches convert power at higher frequencies than traditional components and can be easily embedded in virtually any electrical system from consumer electronics products to computer servers, HVAC equipment, industrial motor drives, and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles.
Back on July 27th, I wrote about how surprised I was to find shares of Power-One (PWER), a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions such as photovoltaic inverters used in solar power applications, trade down after reporting blow-out second quarter results.
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