The agreement requires Satcon to provide core manufacturing processes and technologies to help GCL Solar commission a manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China, which is expected to yield over 500MW of production of the 500kW PowerGate Plus inverters in 2011.
GCL, which will purchase from Satcon the capacity to produce a minimum of 300MW per year out of the GCL Nanjing operation, will sell the PowerGate Plus 500kW inverters manufactured at the facility into the Chinese solar PV market and use them on GCL Solar-funded projects around the world.
Production at the new facility, which will increase the company’s worldwide manufacturing capacity to over 2gW, when combined with its expanded Burlington, Ontario operations, is expected to begin in March of 2011.
Satcon Technology CEO Steve Rhoades said that Satcon and GCL have partnered to deliver many of China’s largest and most advanced solar installations to date, with each showcasing the total system value that our partnership brings to the utility scale solar market.
“As we continue to build upon the strong foundation we have developed in China over the past year with GCL, the expanded partnership will enable us to more effectively address the increasing demand for our large scale solutions together,” Rhoades said.
