Q: Have you seen any LI FE Phosphate developments with the long time battery manufacturers such as East Penn/Deka, Exide and Johnson Controls?

A: Discover has been selling lead batteries for many decades, but I’m not sure if their plants make batteries for other sellers also. The big manufacturers are looking at integrating li-ion cells into batteries, much like the small guys currently do. However, none of them have the technology to manufacture the lithium cells themselves, which is a pretty sharp change from their current business models.  If one of them decides to integrate the li-ion manufacturing, then the market could change fairly quickly.

 

Q: Will Sunny Island continue to use low voltage batteries, i.e. not RESU Type C compatible?

A: The newer Sunny Boy Storage inverters use the high-voltage Li battery like the LG RESU-HV. No changes to Sunny Island that we know of.

Stop by our Booth #2503 at the Solar Power International trade show next week to see what new products we have available and meet with our team.

Win a 12 kW Solar System!

In honor of our 40th anniversary, we are giving away a 40-panel, 12 kW residential system! System includes Q.PEAK DUO BLK modules, SMA Sunny Boy inverters, and SnapNrack racking. Enter to win at our booth!

Join us in the booth for one of our events!

Tuesday, Sept. 24th, 10 AM-11AM – Continental Breakfast, Sponsored by SMA

Tuesday, Sept. 24th, 4PM-5PM – Happy Hour, Sponsored by OutBack Power

Wednesday, Sept. 25th, 4PM-5PM – 40th Anniversary Celebration

We’ve got plenty in stock of the LONGi LR6-72PH module this month, ready for your next installation! These Hi-MO1 High Efficiency modules use Low LID Mono PERC Technology to achieve slower power degradation and better energy yield. Contact your AEE Territory Sales Manager for pricing.

LONGi Solar reached its record bankability rating last month according to the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Solar & Module Bankability 2019 report. Read the full press release

LR6-72PH Benefits 

• Available in 360W & 365W
• 10-year material and processing warranty
• 25-year extra linear power output warranty
• Module efficiency of 18.6%
• Download the Datasheet

About LONGi Solar

LONGi Solar is a world leading manufacturer of high-efficiency mono-crystalline solar cells and modules. The Company is wholly owned by LONGi Group. LONGi Group (SH601012) has been focusing on MONO for about 17 years and is the largest supplier of mono-crystalline silicon wafers in the world, with total assets above $2.7 billion. (2016) 

Armed and powered by the advanced technology and long standing experience of LONGi Group in the field of mono-crystalline silicon, LONGi Solar has shipped over 4.5GW products in 2017, with over 100% rate of growth in three consecutive years. The Company has its headquarters in Xi’an and branches in Japan, Europe, North American, India, Malaysia, Australia and Africa.

With strong focus on R&D, production and sales & marketing of mono-crystalline silicon products, LONGi Solar is committed to providing the best LCOE solutions as well as promoting the worldwide adoption of mono-crystalline technology.

Submit Your Team Photo for a Chance to Win $400

It’s AEE Solar’s 40th Anniversary and we want to celebrate with you! Send us a photo of your groovy team celebrating the early days of solar. If we like your photo best, we’ll credit you $400 off your next order placed on AEEExpress.com. Vintage photos as well as current photos set in the 70’s theme are encouraged!

Contest Details:

• Photos must be high resolution (1 MB or larger).
• Photo submission deadline is October 4, 2019.
• To enter, send photos to Jamie Laughlin at jlaughlin@aeesolar.com.
• By submitting an entry, you grant AEE Solar the right to use and publish entry photos.

As we reach AEE Solar’s 40th anniversary as a business, we’ve been looking back at what solar looked like in 1979. The industry has come quite a ways from those early days and that change is most apparent when you look at the price of modules.

AEE Solar’s very own Brad Bassett remembers purchasing 30W modules in 1979 for the staggering price of $380 each! That works out to over $12 per watt, about 20 times what solar modules cost today. That’s a big price drop for only 40 years and we can only imagine what prices will look like in another 40 years. To the right is a photo of those original modules (which are still working, by the way!)

What do you remember from solar in 1979? We’d love to hear from you!