The Danish company says that its collaboration with GE will allow it to become the world's leading provider of silicon-carbide power modules.Progress in PV technology is more often characterized by slow, steady progress than dramatic breakthroughs, and years and even decades go by where the same basic technology is tweaked but not fundamentally changed.
However, occasionally there is a component or approach that provides the potential for a step-change improvement, such as what silicon-carbide components offer for inverter technology.
Last Friday this potential got a big boost, with Danfoss Silicon Power announcing a collaboration with General Electric (GE) to build a factory in upstate New York to create silicon-carbide (SiC) power modules for inverters, electric vehicles and other applications. GE will supply the SiC chips for the modules, and the facility is expected to begin production in 2018 to serve the U.S. market.
"Today the U.S. demand for power modules is mainly driven through Japanese and German imports," notes Claus Petersen, Danfoss Silicon ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...