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A Big Year For SMA’s Big Inverters In Australia
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2020 saw Germany’s SMA sign contracts for around 1.6 gigawatts of central inverter capacity for use in large-scale solar installations across Australia.
SMA claims to have captured market share of approximately 65 percent of the total 6.5 gigawatts of central inverter capacity committed locally by the end of 2020.
“Despite all the challenges we faced this year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a highly successful year for SMA Australia,” said Michael Rutt, Managing Director.
The contracts signed during 2020 include supply of SMA central inverter products for 15 large-scale projects scattered throughout Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory