MUNICH, Germany — The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Freiburg, Germany) claims it has achieved a record efficiency for its inverter designed for PV generators. Key to the high ...

Residential energy storage systems are riding a wave of popularity against a backdrop of new products offering integrated home power systems, the deployment of virtual power plants (VPPs), and the ...

We intend to establish fundamental and elemental technologies for a high-performance GaN power inverter that will act as a core device in energy saving technologies. The research includes ...

German inverter manufacturer Kaco new energy, a subsidiary of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, has unveiled two string inverters for applications in large-scale PV projects. The two ...

Cambridge GaN Devices has patented a technique for lowering losses in 100kW+ IGBT-based vehicle traction drives, at lower cost than all-silicon-carbide inverters, it said. It involves connecting GaN ...

Pre-Switch has published the highest-efficiency data for its 200-kW CleanWave200 inverter have been recently released by Pre-Switch. Interviewed by EETimes, Bruce Renouard, CEO of Pre-Switch, ...

Earlier this week, Californian company Pre-Switch claimed 99.3% efficiency for a 100kHz electric vehicle traction inverter running at 100kW. It credits this impressive figure to the use of a resonant ...

Tesla manufactures its drive inverter for the Model S/X in-house at its Fremont factory, but the automaker is using proven off-the-shelf products — primarily TO-247 transistor packages. The company ...