Abound Alliance
Bringing together industry-leading partners to improve Balance of System solutions
Abound Alliance is a unique ecosystem of balance-of-system partners that are collaborating with Abound Solar to drive down the levelized cost of PV electricity. The partnership decreases the complexities facing solar utility and project developers, engineering firms, and procurement and construction companies by providing a straightforward path for vendor selection as they design their large-scale systems. Although customers can ultimately choose the appropriate best-in-class solution for their specific needs, the products in the alliance represent options for a fully compatible system with Abound Solar PV modules.
The Abound Alliance also allows each alliance company to better coordinate their product development, marketing and sales efforts, while optimizing their products to improve performance, reduce costs, and/or increase system reliability. The process is simplified because each alliance company understands how its products will interact with the other balance-of-system products.
If interested in learning more about the Abound Alliance, please contact info@abound.com or any of the partners listed below. Each of the companies below is familiar with Abound and either has a competitive solution or is in the final stages of developing one that is appropriate for Abound’s module.
Racking
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Schletter: With over 40-years manufacturing experience, Schletter, Inc., has risen to be the technology driver of the solar mounting systems industry. Schletter, Inc. offers the solar industry’s most extensive, highly engineered and custom designed solar module mounting solutions for roof and ground mounted systems, supporting modules from nearly every photovoltaic manufacturer. Ground mounted systems are up to 70% pre-assembled in the factory, which reduces cost and decreases the installation time in the field.
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Sunlink: SunLink Corporation provides scalable solar module mounting solutions that reduce costs and installation times and improve system performance. Leading integrators have chosen SunLink’s commercial rooftop and ground-mounted systems on more than 90 MW of projects at 500 sites across North America. Most recently, SunLink was chosen for a 50 MW supply agreement with Southern California Edison. SunLink's experienced engineering team provides comprehensive support for each installation.
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Thesan: Thesan offers the market innovative solutions in the field of renewable energy and energy-saving systems. Thesan's research and development team consists of top-level scholars from the best polytechnic institutes, the Italian National Research Council and the Scuola Normale of Pisa (Italian centre for teaching and research) together with key figures in the field of technological innovation, both within the industry as well as in international centres of excellence. With heart and brains in Italy, Thesan solutions are designed for the world, wherever there emerges a concrete need for energy rationality. The sales network for America, Asia and Europe is already active in post-sales and customer care services as well. |
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KACO: A powerful partner for PV system solutions, KACO new energy has built a tradition of excellence in the photovoltaic inverter and power electronics industries. KACO engineers have developed, designed and manufactured current inverters and power electronics for more than 60 years. With over 2 GW of PV inverters in operation worldwide, KACO is a strong and reliable photovoltaic inverter partner.
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PV Powered: PV Powered is the innovation leader for grid-tied PV inverters in the residential, commercial and utility markets, setting the industry standard for innovation in reliability and efficiency. Founded in Bend, Oregon in 2003 and recently acquired by Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), the company’s vision is to tackle three significant issues affecting the growth of solar world-wide: (1) dramatically improving the reliability of inverters, (2) lowering the cost of levelized cost of ownership for PV power generation and (3) making distributed PV a scalable and controllable resource on the utility grid.
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REFU Solar Electronics: Since 1965 the German-based REFU Elektronik has been a specialist in custom power engineering applications and inverters. REFU Solar Electronics offers solar inverters from 4 kW to 1.3 MW with industry-leading conversion efficiency of up to 98.2 % and proven reliability. REFU’s North American office is in San Jose, Calif.
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Cabling
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Shoals Technologies Group: Shoals Technologies Group has set the standard for excellence in manufacturing for solar panel cable assemblies, junction boxes, combiner boxes, wire harnesses and many more custom assemblies at commodity pricing. Shoals offers solutions tailored to both commercial rooftops and ground installations by providing 600 V and 1000v combiner, fuse and master fuse boxes along with wire harnesses and cable assemblies.
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Below is a listing of other vendors that Abound has worked with in the past. To download the contact information for these companies, please click here.
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