On March 5, 2020, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation to specify the composition of equipment for generating facilities operating on solar energy, as well as targets for its localization degree. In addition, the procedure was discussed to confirm compliance with export targets for products (works, services) when extending the renewable energy incentive mechanism in the wholesale electricity and capacity market after 2024.
Vladimir Naumov, Deputy CEO — Technical Director of EKRA took part in the meeting and informed the meeting participants that in the nearest future our company would be ready to market complex solutions to connect photovoltaic modules to public networks using power semiconductor converters designed and manufactured by us. He also stressed that for such technical solutions to appear in the Russian market, it was necessary to significantly increase their impact on the overall estimate of localization degree of generating facilities based on renewable energy sources, primarily solar and wind.
EKRA specialists are convinced that such an increased estimate of the contribution made by power semiconductor converters (converters or inverters) to the localization degree of said generating facilities will have a positive impact on the reliability of these facilities and on the development of the electrical industry both in the Chuvash Republic and the entire Russian Federation. They believe that this indicator should be as close to the similar indicator for photovoltaic modules (solar panels) as possible. In doing so, all technologies used in the life cycle of power semiconductor converters, as well as ownership of algorithms and software for these converters and automation systems, should be taken into account when determining the localization degree.