Go Solar Go Dot Com : Tag : PV Powered

by dan — Monday, June 4th, 2007

Inverter manufacturer PV Powered announced a plug-in module for their inverter line that provides remote solar PV system monitoring. I've been wondering how long it would take for an inverter manufacturer to build in some of the remote monitoring features for which solar installers and customers are dependent upon third party vendors like Fat Spaniel. I must imagine that SunnyBoy, Xantrex, etc. won't be far behind in providing integrated remote monitoring for their products. Fat Spaniel has done a nice job selling their system as an add-on, but they may wind up squeezed out of the market if inverter manufacturers follow the lead of PV Powered. Fat Spaniel may very well be able to adapt - they had to have expected to face this sort of competition - who knows, maybe they'll get acquired and have their technology integrated by one of the manufacturers.

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