SMA Exceeds 3 GW Solar Inverter Sales in India

“India is one of the key markets for SMA in Asia Pacific. In the last 3 years, we see the strong commitment from the Indian government as well as the growing market demand in the solar sector. Thanks to SMA’s wide product range catering to all market segments as well as the service network with regional presence, our inverter shipment in 2017 in India exceeds 1GW across all segments.” said John Susa, Executive Vice President of SMA Sales North America/APAC. “As a result, we are proud to announce that our total shipment of solar inverters in India has passed 3GW accumulatively.”

“We are very happy to see that our business growth not only comes from central inverters for utility-scale PV power plants but also from string inverters for the growing commercial segment. Our commercial sales have doubled compared to last year and now we have 30% market share in commercial segment and 20% market share in utility segment in India.” said Rakesh Khanna, Managing Director of SMA India.

SMA is strongly committed to the Indian market and has opened its sales and service subsidiary in India in 2010 offering products and solutions for centralized and decentralized PV power plants as well as for commercial PV applications with its Sunny Central 1000CP-XT, Sunny Central 2750-EV/2500-EV, Sunny Tripower 15000TL / 20000TL / 25000TL and Sunny Tripower 60 solar inverters. SMA’s full range of solar inverters with highest standard of quality and reliability helps SMA maintain a leading position in the Indian solar market.

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