Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, has recently released its annual report 2019 to shareholders, reporting a robust fiscal performance and key milestones in its business fields.
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Overview of Sungrow fiscal year
Strong competitiveness
The Company remains the leading position in markets like the United States, Brazil, Chile and holds a market share of over 30% in Southeast Asia. The growth is attributable to the robust strength in R&D, global professional and responsive sales and service network and facilitating firmly the corporate social responsibility.
One of the most important factors Sungrow leans on is the R&D development. The annual report indicates over 1627 personnel assigned to R&D team and an increase in investment in R&D by 31.8% to $911.8 million in 2019, demonstrating more efforts were made in product innovations.
Furthermore, the Company keeps providing updated product portfolio with groundbreaking technologies including SG250HX - the world's most powerful 1500V inverter, and featured commercial inverters from 33kW to 110kW, which enable maximum yields for diverse installations. The breakthrough is also shown on the Company's energy storage segment which embraces a year on year revenue growth by 41.8%. Landmark projects Sungrow supplied in 2019 like the largest unsubsidized PV-plus-storage project in Europe (27MW/30MWh) and the first 1500V DC-coupled PV-plus-storage project in the United States (1.5MW/3.836MWh), which maximizing the ROI and matching diversified local demands.
With more than 20 subsidiaries and over 50 global service outlets established worldwide, Sungrow is able to offer the most responsive 24/7 support to customers. Notably, Sungrow was rated "100% bankable" by BloombergNEF in its inverter bankability survey 2019. The survey also unveiled that Sungrow is the No.1 supplier in term-loan financed projects.
As one of the most compelling PV and energy storage players, Sungrow is always contributing to the decarbonization. It's the Company's accumulative shipments reaching 100GW by the end of 2019 that is equivalent to eliminating 103 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Forecast the growth in 2020
Despite the current situation with coronavirus, Sungrow is dedicated to lifting R&D investment, driving the online communication for business and putting together a task force to facilitate comprehensive measures to ensure a stable supply chain, in a bid to pave the way to reach its mission of "Clean power for all".
"The coronavirus has had only a minimal negative impact on Sungrow's business development so far. We are moving fast in uncertain times," said Cao Renxian, Chairman of Sungrow. Many orders are still on time and those that are delayed are a few weeks behind the original schedule. According inverter export data released by China Custom, Sungrow took the first place in Q1 of 2020.
As of early March, Sungrow's China-based production facility was at full capacity and the Company's upcoming quarter orders were healthy enough to indicate a year of growth.
About Sungrow
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd ("Sungrow") is the world's most bankable inverter brand with over 100 GW to be installed worldwide as of December 2019. Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters, with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions. With a strong 23-year track record in the PV space, Sungrow products power installations in over 60 countries, maintaining a worldwide market share of over 15%. Learn more about Sungrow by visiting www.sungrowpower.com.
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