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FIMER TAKES ON ABB – AND AUSTRALIA FIMER is one of the few inverter brands in the market that is still manufacturing in Europe. The Italian business which was founded in 1942 and has an extensive product range for residential, commercial and utility application took a step forward in March 2020 when it acquired the ABB Solar business.
MARCH 2020 sticks in the mind of many as the time that the world was realising its worst fears with the emergence of a global pandemic. For FIMER, the timing was even more momentous as the inverter manufacturer had already set in train the integration of the ABB Solar business with its nearly 1,000 employees. The scheduling certainly presented an additional challenge, FIMER’s Jason Venning told Smart Energy, however 18 months down the track he
manufacture electric vehicle chargers. “Our new EV charger portfolio is certainly another part of the renewable technologies mix in the sense that greater adoption of electric vehicles in conjunction with a move to more renewable energy in our generation mix will help to improve everyone’s carbon footprint.” FIMER also has a manufacturing plant in India that produces its central inverter solutions.
has not only gone very well but that it’s part of the evolution of the company that is also launching a
Testing conditions
suite of new products into the Australian market.
“All our technology is tested for hash conditions
To set the scene he stepped through the existing
and can be found in some extreme locations
products’ technical features, saying FIMER’s
including Antarctica, one of the coldest and
Italian-made string inverters come embedded with
windiest places globally, and in some of the hottest
PowerGain scanning algorithm technology that
places, such as Rewa in India, where temperatures
ensures PV systems on a home or business will
regularly exceed 40°C,” Venning said.
conditions. This performance, he explained, is achieved without additional devices such as DC optimisers which results in reduced installation complexity
What’s important, he emphasised, is that FIMER always looks to innovate and work with its customers to ensure their system is suitable for their project. “We have tailored solutions to provide optimal
and cost while improving system safety over a
performance and value to meet Australian
long period.
regulations and requirements. For example
“The UNO-DM, REACT 2 and PVS-10/33
the FIMER teams in Australia and Europe have
inverters come with a 10-year warranty, and if
developed a sub-5MW central inverter solution
anything happens to the inverter in that time
sized perfectly at 4.95MW.
FIMER provides a replacement inverter and pays
“This solution allows utility players the
for the labour and transport costs to get the
opportunity to choose a central inverter solution
system back online,” the Country Manager said.
that has ultimate generation potential and still
Peel Business Park in Perth where the FIMER team customised a solution to deliver a central inverter and battery inverter on a singular skid
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Vimercate and Terranuova Bracciolini also
can look back and confidently say the integration
always work at optimal conditions, even in shading
Jason Venning of FIMER
The two Italian manufacturing facilities in
