August 21, 2007

Fort Collins, CO, USA: Advanced Energy Introduces New Solaron™ Line of Photovoltaic Inverters

Advanced Energy® Industries, Inc. is extending its portfolio of solar offerings with the new Solaron™ line of photovoltaic inverters. For decades, AE has helped solar-cell manufacturing customers with innovative power and control technologies. Now AE has applied its proven, power-conversion expertise to offer a truly advanced, transformerless, grid-tie PV inverter for commercial system installations-with breakthrough efficiency and durability.

Designed for the North American market, AE says that the first model of the Solaron platform, the Solaron™ 333 kW, offers a durable, transformerless, grid-tie design. With its robust controls and patented, soft-switching technology, the Solaron inverter achieves breakthrough 97 percent CEC efficiency and is NRTL-certified to UL 1741. A wide MPP (maximum power point) tracking window ensures maximum, day- long processing power. Both local and remote data access enables operators to monitor the system's remarkably high performance and reliability -- from anywhere at anytime.

"One of AE's strengths is our ability to leverage technology in innovative ways that help extend our customers' processes. Our world-class R&D teams insightfully leveraged our high power, thin-film process power technology to develop a commercial, grid-tie inverter platform with unsurpassed efficiency," observed Dr. Hans Betz, president and CEO of AE. "The result is a new, solar inverter platform with financial and reliability advantages for our customers. As we enter this exciting, high-growth and environmentally conscious market, we are well positioned with our technology and service infrastructure."

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