Optimistic About the Global Inverter Market
International Inverter Market Warms Up Before To Continue In Development
In recent years, with Spain, Germany, the United States, Japan of its own pv industry policy support, global (pv) power inverter has been increasing on sales, (pv) power use inverter has entered a rapid growth stage. But the global photovoltaic inverter basic market is carved up by international several big giant, laid out the pioneer of global photovoltaic market, has perfect photovoltaic industry chain; pv inverter technology is in the leading position in the world. SMA are the earliest and largest of photovoltaic inverter production enterprise (the German market takes share of more than 50%), accounts for about a third of the global market share, the second is Fronius. Seven of the world's top production enterprise occupied nearly 70% market shares.
With the rapid growth of global photovoltaic installed, inverter market also expands unceasingly. A data shows: from the first half of 2010, overall has eight GW, 2009 is about 8 GW, an increase of nearly three times. According to isuppli forecast, in the next three years, will have the growth of the nine times.
In October 2011, according to understand, the U.S. department of energy (DoE) put $2.3 million to SolarBridge technology company, used for developing low cost solar photovoltaic miniature inverter. SolarBridge says, the company will use the low cost for accelerating solar photovoltaic miniature inverter and used to power conversion electronic connection to the solar cell of components of the common development of mechanical device.
2011, Germany Bosch is to join inverter market. According to the news, from Stuttgart, Germany Bosch has plans to start the "mass production photovoltaic inverter, Bosch spokesman AndreasKempf has confirmed that the company in January to set up a subsidiary, the scope of business involves inverter.
Market research firm IMS in its announced results of a survey emphasized that photovoltaic inverter market in 2010 in the 12 months experience from long-term supply shortage of excess capacity to serious change. According to the market research company says, as of 2011 January, the fourth quarter of 2010 and the beginning of the New Year inventories have reached a record high. The new report also found that IMS Research, 2010 global photovoltaic inverter market grew by 140%, it mainly by Germany, Italy, the Czech republic and France and other core of the European market drivers. Although the industry for excess capacity in holding, but global photovoltaic inverter market still can be reached $2014 in 8.5 billion income amount, with an average annual increase as high as 25%.
China's Domestic Inverter Market Prospect Is Encouraging
The inverter market also is the industry was valued, the domestic (pv) power installed capacity is into rapid growth stage, wind power in national policies cleared, for several years to double type growth, China's (pv) power market in formal had his "power tariff policy, copy this after a blowout type development will be big probability events. Started in 2011, will be the country's grid (pv) power development peak, insiders expect China's 2011 and 2012 years of photovoltaic new installed will be only 400 MW in 2010 or so shot up to 1.5 GW based on 3 GW above, and a pull grid photovoltaic inverter demand.
At present, the domestic inverter with more market is currently advantage. First of all, inverter is in relatively stable price, gross margin level in the future can be guaranteed. In 2011, although also with price inverter photovoltaic market weak and slightly down, but fell by small, basic smoothly.
In early July inverter average price is $0.239 / tile, to early October average prices have remained at the $0.235 / tile, second quarter degree fall is only 1.67%. This is mainly because photovoltaic inverter of the price of the stage has the past winners quickly, and as the need for continued investment in research of high-end power electronic products, the products of the gross profit margin by compression space is limited, the product range will gradually falls to ease, and future costs decline will mainly come from the design improvement and components of the nationalization.
Second, to participate in the enterprise has more barriers to indicates a low, introductory easy, make difficult, do big more difficult. Photovoltaic inverter as a in China just appear near industry, relatively low entry threshold really attracted many domestic enterprises to participate in the research and production, but the products parameters and quality to a wide range of authentication, customer recognition institutions, and realize the batch delivery enterprises are very few and the global situation as well.
Moreover, the domestic market share gradually improve inverter. Photovoltaic inverter to the operation stability as a long-term demand higher product, has a profound technical accumulation, and able to take the lead in a certain scale and stable operation of the performance of the enterprise, to have the opportunity to do bigger and stronger, and edge enterprise then will soon be out of business; The domestic enterprise is expected to start using photovoltaic installation of domestic market start gain valuable operation experience for the future of access to the international market to lay a solid foundation.
At present domestic photovoltaic (pv) grid inverter market on a smaller scale, the domestic production inverter manufacturer of numerous, but specifically used for (pv) power system, the inverter manufacturer is not much, but many domestic enterprises have been in inverter industry has been studied for years, which has had a certain scale and competitive, but in inverter technology quality, scale with foreign enterprise still have a large gap, currently has a large manufacturers in hefei sunshine, Beijing, Beijing SuoYing great kono, zhicheng champions, nanjing, Shanghai and the crown process of new energy technology Co., LTD. and other enterprise. At present, these enterprises for the production of photovoltaic system show ascendant trend.
The domestic market scale is although small, but the future photovoltaic power station is the great development of market space and development potential for domestic enterprise to bring the development history of the opportunity. At present domestic pv inverter is mainly the sun power supply, YiSiMa, KACO brand such as capture, foreign enterprise most through the agency channel into the domestic market, due to the difficulty of after-sales service to provide overall market share is not high. Statistics show that in 2008, hefei sun power supply company accounts for more than 70% of photovoltaic inverter market share, the domestic main photovoltaic project with high power products almost all use domestic products.
From a technical perspective, the domestic enterprise in the conversion efficiency, structure technology, the level of intelligence, stability with foreign advanced level there is still a certain gap, at present our country in small power inverter technology with foreign at the same level, in high power grid inverter, high power grid inverter still needs further development.