Joseph Song, co-founder of Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, charts a brief history of the solar industry. He applauds the industry’s heavy scrutiny of solar module quality, which is regularly challenged by developers and EPCs. At the same time, inverters remain more of a black box, where real visibility of specs and features is less common, and word of mouth is trusted over limited datasheets.
The first 1 MW project on which Joseph Song worked was a rooftop solar system for New Vision Technologies in 2005.
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