An innovative storm in the photovoltaic and energy storage industry is emerging from Shenzhen and rapidly sweeping across the globe.

On December 18th, the "2024 Global Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Summit & Micro-Inverter & Micro-Storage Full-Scenario Application Summit," hosted by Chaodian and sponsored by JET, was successfully held. More than 300 industry elites from upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, including but not limited to micro-inverters/micro-storage brands, ODM/OEM, solution providers, chips, and core raw materials, gathered together to analyze and discuss the differentiated competition and future development directions of micro-inverters and micro-storage.

Several outstanding companies such as JET, DEYLELAND, EGmicro, Amazon Web Services, iYPOWER, SAJ, Hello Tech, and Mango Power, Chaodian made appearances, sharing the most cutting-edge technologies, products, and system solutions with the attendees.

Lu Xiuwen from Chaodian delivered a wonderful speech at this summit. He stated that from a global perspective, photovoltaic storage is definitely a long-term and profitable economic track, especially the expansion of micro-inverter and micro-storage applications in all scenarios, which has become a new hot spot and growth point in the industry. More and more capable Chinese brands and supply chain companies will gradually take over the micro-inverter market.

Faced with the complex competitive environment of global photovoltaic and energy storage, participants unanimously agreed that under the development goal of smart ecological interconnection, the market remains vibrant and is a long-term trend track. Especially with the emergence of more differentiated innovative technologies in niche fields such as micro-inverters/micro-storage, as well as the implementation of full-scenario applications, the industry will once again open up a new situation of rapid growth.

In the exciting roundtable forum session, Fara Smart Energy's Liu Pan, TENTEK's Li Wenke, PROTON NEW ENERGY's Mr Tabufor Pride, ZENDURE's Zhang Chenhui, and AECC's Gao Yang engaged in an in-depth discussion around core industry issues such as "the market space for 800W micro-inverters," "challenges faced by hybrid micro-inverters and balcony energy storage all-in-one units," "market outlets under product homogenization," and "future market trends for 2000-5000W large micro-inverters," providing valuable strategic decision-making insights and clear market direction for the attendees on site.

It is worth noting that Chaodian also held a unique and precise resource matchmaking event, specially inviting well-known terminal manufacturers such as Anker Innovations and GOODWE, as well as overseas purchasing representatives, to build a direct bridge for in-depth cooperation along the industry chain. Many participants who reached cooperation intentions on site highly praised this special session format.

JET Li Zonghan: Micro-inverter European Market Trends and JET Solutions

As the largest shipping destination for global micro-inverters, Europe has always been a focal point of industry competition.

Li Zonghan stated that this year, the newly added energy storage installation capacity in Europe is expected to reach 22.4GWh. The household storage installation growth rate is the fastest, at 17%. Germany's plug-and-play residential photovoltaic market installation volume is the highest in Europe, and Poland is growing rapidly, with the potential to become one of the largest micro-inverter markets in Europe in the future.

He also emphasized that JET's self-developed 800W micro-inverter perfectly fits European houses with limited installation space and various types of irregular roofs. It is not only easy to install but also capable of integrating with intelligent cloud services, allowing real-time tracking of usage through an app, which aligns well with European users' habits.

JET focuses on the research and development, manufacturing, and sales of micro-inverters, micro photovoltaic energy storage integrated machines, and power optimizers, and other module-level power electronic products. It has world-class R&D, production, and channel resources in Europe, and a scientific raw material and component control system, which effectively ensures manufacturing quality.

So far, JET has production centers in Hunan, Dongguan, Shenzhen, and other places, and has completed a comprehensive strategic layout of R&D, production, and channels in Europe. Li Zonghan revealed that several leading industry supply chains are in talks with the company for cooperation, aiming to seize the high ground of the European micro-inverter market with leading solutions.

DEYLELAND Lou Jing: Empowering Integration, Striving for Mutual Success

Although it was close to Christmas, the senior executives from DEYLELAND's German headquarters, who were originally scheduled to attend the summit, could not make it. However, Lou Jing's speech was equally brilliant and received multiple rounds of applause from the audience.

Lou Jing called for China to take a leading role in the new energy industry on-site, and due to the high quality requirements from international clients such as those in Europe and America, Chinese partners must specialize and integrate professional strengths. He also sent out a clear signal of cooperation, seeking high-quality enterprises with R&D and ODM capabilities to win together in the overseas market.

DEYLELAND's major shareholder company, Deyle Power, has a history of 70 years, with the company's executive general manager and team being professionals in German residential photovoltaics. DEYLELAND was established in Frankfurt in 2019, leveraging China's strong supply chain advantages to provide high-quality distributed, especially residential energy solutions, to global customers according to German company standards and processes.

The company has now launched products such as 800W/1000W micro-inverters, micro-storage, and balcony photovoltaic systems.

EGmicro Xie Jinjun: Application of DAB Topology in Micro-inverters and Introduction to Mass-Produced Models

Daring to challenge the global micro-inverter leader Enphase, EGmicro has sufficient technical strength as its backing.

Xie Jinjun shared in detail the three mainstream micro-inverter solutions: single-stage interleaved flyback topology, two-stage LC+H4 topology, and single-stage DAB topology. Among them, the single-stage DAB solution has obvious advantages in terms of efficiency, cost, and power density.

EGmicro's one-to-one 400/500W micro-inverter has already been mass-produced and delivered, and the one-to-two 800W micro-inverter is expected to be released in the first half of 2025. The company's remote monitoring APP for micro-inverter products supports customized functions and display panel UI, allowing users to remotely check the working status, real-time power generation, and total power generation at any time. It also allows modification of the micro-inverter's maximum output power to avoid unnecessary power waste, suitable for balcony installation and connection to micro-storage products.

The R&D team of EGmicro was initially established in 2007 and has been focusing on analog power, digital power, high-voltage drive, motor control, and other chip and power solutions since its inception. Their products cover a wide range of fields including industrial power, industrial control, photovoltaic, energy storage, motor control, new energy, home appliances, etc., offering micro-inverter customization, OEM/ODM, and various cooperation methods.

Amazon Web Services Hu Jin: Best Practices for Accelerating New Energy's Global Expansion with Cloud

Millions of customers, including the fastest-growing startups, the largest enterprises, and major government agencies, are using Amazon's services to reduce costs, increase agility, and accelerate innovation.

Hu Jin stated that currently, leading Chinese photovoltaic energy storage companies have nearly 500T of massive data on Amazon. He also shared on-site how Amazon's global cloud services and global e-commerce platforms reach global businesses and household users, thereby accelerating the global business expansion of Chinese wind power, photovoltaic, micro-storage, micro-inverter, and other new energy enterprises.

Amazon Web Services is the pioneer and leading brand in global cloud computing, currently offering over 200 full-featured services, including computing, storage, databases, networking, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, security, as well as application development, deployment, and management.

Amazon Web Services is the pioneer and leading brand in global cloud computing, currently offering over 200 full's B2B e-commerce is expected to reach a scale of 37 trillion by 2027.

iYPOWER He Zhiqiang: European and American Micro-Inverter Hydrogen Storage Solution

Hydrogen photovoltaic storage systems are convenient for expansion, capable of scaling up photovoltaic and hydrogen fuel cells, and represent one of the industry's future development trends, with demand expected to surge within the next three to five years.

He Zhiqiang pointed out that iYPOWER has launched a 60KW hydrogen energy + 60KW photovoltaic + 100KWh lithium battery system, and the overseas industrial and commercial storage integrated cabinet has been updated to the third generation product.

iYPOWER is a new energy company dedicated to the research, development, production, sales, and service of industrial and commercial energy storage systems, home energy storage systems, and special power lithium battery systems. The company's core team mainly comes from BYD and Huawei. The company owns multiple core patents in BMS/EMS technology, inverter technology, and key lithium battery processes. Its products are sold in over 100 countries and regions worldwide and have passed various global certifications, including UL/IEC/CB/CE/UN38.3/MSDS, etc.

iYPOWER's two major brands are iYPOWER and iYENGY. The company has launched photovoltaic storage charging products for the European region and photovoltaic-storage-diesel hybrid system for the African region.

SAJ Huang Wenjian: SAJ Micro-Inverters in Brazil

In Brazil, which has a high-temperature and hot climate, there is also a very specific demand for micro-inverter products, but with characteristics that differ from other markets.

Huang Wenjian stated that SAJ has been deeply involved in the Brazilian micro-inverter market for many years, with an annual demand scale of about 500,000 units, mainly in specifications under 2kW, which is very promising.

The micro-inverters launched by SAJ for the Brazilian market adopt an integrated die-casting design, with heat dissipation direction designed according to fluid mechanics to ensure rapid and even cooling. The internal full encapsulation enhances waterproof and heat dissipation performance, capable of connecting to modules with a power of 700W+ and a maximum DC input current of 20A.

Established in 2005, SAJ provides efficient distributed photovoltaic grid-tied solutions, home photovoltaic storage solutions, and motor drive solutions, empowering customers in these three fields. The company's product design and technical parameters comply with the standard requirements of major countries around the world, having obtained over 100 domestic and international certification certificates, and its products are sold in more than 80 countries and regions worldwide.

Hello Tech Luo Cheng: DIY Small Home Green Power Systems Bring Green Energy from Outdoors to Indoors

Portable energy storage leader Hello Tech is expanding its business from outdoor to home use, creating many new opportunities for cooperation with the photovoltaic and energy storage industry chain.

Luo Cheng stated that the portable energy storage market is worth tens of billions, while the home energy storage market has entered the trillion market. He explained the rising demand for home green power from aspects such as support from policies in multiple countries, energy crises, high electricity prices in many European countries, increased impact of extreme weather and disasters in various regions globally, and the reduction in the cost of photovoltaic systems.

In view of the issues with traditional balcony photovoltaic and energy storage products, such as piecemeal solutions, inability to use during power outages, single application scenarios, single photovoltaic charging, complex installation, no support for the connection of legacy micro-inverters, no outdoor application, and no low-temperature charging, Hello Tech has launched a globally leading DIY small home green power system. This product features integrated design, multi-unit networking, direct and flexible expansion, no need for drilling, and can be installed in about 5 minutes. It also comes with smart CT+ sockets, extreme weather push functions, allowing users to prepare for power outages with one click and take advantage of time-of-use smart electricity pricing for peak and valley arbitrage. It is the first product of its kind to apply PD3.1 fast charging solutions.

With the vision of "making green energy ubiquitous," the DIY small home green power system model advocated by Hello Tech may become a global trend.

Mango Power Cai Hui: New Devices, New Topologies, Bidirectional Micro-Inverters Create Disruptive New Quality Productivity for Household New Energy

"The market is not at all competitive; the essence is still a lack of differentiated product innovation," said Cai Hui from Mango Power Technology, a viewpoint that resonates with the industry.

Facing a future consumer shipment scale of over a hundred million, China's photovoltaic and energy storage forces are working hard. Cai Hui believes that the household photovoltaic and energy storage industry is rapidly exploding, with old power facilities on the user side and a huge space for household photovoltaic storage and charging.

He emphasized that Mango Power's mission is to completely transform household photovoltaic storage and charging from an industrial level to a consumer level.

Mango Power's first launch of a single-stage bidirectional micro-inverter, whose new generation of single-stage bidirectional micro-inverter topology is the world's first artificial intelligence micro-inverter, can achieve safe and efficient power generation for 25 years, with a peak efficiency of up to 98.4% and a CEC efficiency of 97.5%.

Mango Power focuses on the research and development of new quality productivity in digital energy technology, with products covering three major technical sectors: new generation power topologies for photovoltaic energy storage, microgrid networking technology, and AI electric fingerprint. The company has completed its Series A strategic financing, with cooperation partners including semiconductor leader Infineon and Fujia Shares. It has built its own production line in Dyson/JS Global factories, mainly shipping to the North American region.

Chaodian Wang Huan: Analysis of Microgrid Trends in the New Energy 3.0 Inflection Point Era

"After the 1.0 subsidy era and the 2.0 popularization era, photovoltaic storage and charging have entered the 3.0 inflection point era," Wang Huan believes that this era is characterized by microgrids, modularization, and energy security, with features such as independent power generation, intelligent scheduling, combined power, ultra-high voltage, and virtual power grids.

She also shared European energy distribution data from October 2024 on-site and stated that price wars, companies experiencing shutdowns and layoffs, adjustments in energy structures, and the turbulence of bottom-line elimination have led to an industry-wide scramble for production capacity, products, and parameters, resulting in overcapacity. However, there has been a lack of competition in core competitiveness, leading to a scarcity of high-quality production capacity.

According to Wang Huan's analysis and interpretation, photovoltaic plus micro-inverter, balcony micro-storage, and commercial and industrial micro-inverters will become important product forms and hot markets in the photovoltaic storage and charging 3.0 era. Although there are still many pain points, it is expected to see more than a sixfold increase in scale growth by 2030.