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  • 기자명 Zinna
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  • Published 2021.05.06 12:18

[2021 Green Energy Expo Interview] GoodWe Branch Manager Kim Gil-joong promises to lead the company as a global leader with its streaming inverter technology

GoodWe booth view at 2021 Green Energy Expo | Photo by AVING News

GoodWe participated in the InternationalGreen Energy Expo 2021 held at EXCO, Daegu from April 28 (Wed) to 30 (Fri) andintroduced its one-body connection box inverter.

GoodWe is a strategic thinking leader witha focus on research and production of PV inverters and energy storagesolutions. With 23 GW installed in more than 100 countries, GoodWe's solarinverters have been used mainly for residential, commercial rooftop, industrialand utility scale systems and energy storage systems.

At the Green Energy Expo exhibition hall,AVING News met GoodWe Branch Manager Kim Gil-joong to interview on the solarpower module products and one-body junction box inverter.

Q1. Company introduction

A. Kim: GoodWe is a company specialized inthe streaming inverter sector, and has established itself as a firm globalleader. There are more than 400 researchers and technology from three R&Dcenters. Since 2018, the company holds unbeatable technology proven byintroducing double-sided modular inverters to the Korean market. Also, it issupplying a variety of lineups ranging from 700W to 250kW in Korea.

Q2. Product introduction and specifications

A. Kim: Our inverter is a one-bodyjunction box, so there is no need to install a junction box separately. We cansave cost from not having to install additional connection box, cables, andmaintenance fee that comes with it. Also, in terms of initial input cost, theboundary with the central inverter is broken, and the fence cost required for ahigh-voltage system can be reduced as in the case of using a central inverter.

Also, our product is a double-sided modulewith an input current of 15~16A. We are currently developing the new 20Aproduct. Recently, double-sided modules of 530W or more are becoming popular,and double-sided modules of 570W or more will be released from the second halfof this year. Currently, our products are the only inverters that can beconnected to double-sided modules and that can respond to pre-use inspectionssuch as fuses of 25A or more and LCD displays. Also, the self-developedmonitoring system SEME is also provided free of charge.

Q3. Future plans

A. Kim: In addition to various safetyfunctions required by KS, it is equipped with functions such as humiditydetection and AFCI that immediately shuts off circuits in case of arcing torespond to various situations such as supplying inverters for floating solarpower in salted areas and farming solar power. We are planning to expand the marketby building a product line. Currently, the cumulative amount in the globalmarket is about 23GW, and in the Korean market, it is expected to exceed 1.5GWthis year.

The 18th International Green Energy Expo isKorea’s largest, one of Asia’s top 3 and the world’s top 10 new and renewableenergy exhibitions, and the only exhibition jointly organized by the four majorassociations. The exhibition covers △Solar power △ESS (energy storage system)& battery △Smart grid technology △Wind power and △New and renewable energy.This exhibition is hosted by Daegu Metropolitan City and Gyeongsangbuk-do andorganized by EXCO, KNREA, KOPIA, KWEIA, and KHIA.

→ Go to the 18th Green Energy Expo special page

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