Hannover, April 4, 2011 – Energy technology and power electronics specialist AEG Power Solutions presented its new solar power inverter Protect PV.500 at the Hannover Fair. This newest addition to the Protect PV product line expands the company's product range of professional industrial solutions for use in solar power installations for Multi-MW utility scale. AEG Power Solutions is a subsidiary of listed holding 3W Power (Euronext Amsterdam 3WP, Frankfurt 3W9, ISIN GG00B39QCR01, WKN A0Q5SX).

 

A key feature of the Protect PV product line is its power stack with advanced-design measuring and control technology enabling DC input voltages of up to 1000 VDC. Thin-film modules can therefore be used efficiently.

"The Protect PV.500 adds to our solar product portfolio and will open important additional market segments in the Multi-megawatt range for us," explains Enrique De La Cruz, VP & General Manager of the Solar Solutions SBU at AEG Power Solutions. "We offer solar plant developers a wider range of inverters for a flexible design of MW utility scale power plants.. For AEG Power Solutions, this development marks another successful step towards technological leadership in the field of innovative power management."

The Protect PV.500 is also available as part of AEG PS’ turnkey container solution TKS-C 1000, which is equipped with two Protect PV.500 units.

The product is launched today in Europe and Asia, and will also be available soon on the US market.

About AEG Power Solutions

AEG Power Solutions is a world provider of innovative premium power solutions. Backed by more than a century of innovation and customer service, AEG Power Solutions offers a full-range of highly reliable, cost effective solutions, from power conversion modules, solar inverters and solutions to high reliability UPS systems, industrial chargers and DC systems. System solutions from AEG PS are designed to interface with the electrical power grid and to offer power solutions for mission-critical applications in harsh environments, such as utility-scale renewable energy plants, polysilicon manufacturing process, power plants, offshore oil rigs or chemical refineries.

AEG is a registered trademark used under license from AB Electrolux 2  

AEG Power Solutions activities consist of two complementary operating segments: Renewable Energy Solutions, gathering power controller systems and solar solutions and Energy Efficiency Solutions, dedicated to all infrastructure applications. Thanks to its distinctive expertise, bridging both AC and DC power technologies and spanning the worlds of both conventional and renewable energy, the company is uniquely positioned to benefit long-term from emerging demand for intelligent micro-energy grids.

3W Power Holdings S.A. is the holding company of AEG Power Solutions Group. Shares and Warrants in the company are admitted to trading on NYSE Euronext, Amsterdam (ticker: 3WP and 3WPW, respectively). Shares are also traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker: 3W9).

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Protect PV.500 is directly derived from the technology developed for the highly successful Protect PV.250, whose certified efficiency yields 98,7% according to European standard 50530. The protect PV family and now PV.500 inverter clearly exceeds expectations for its power class. With an appropriate transformer, it can also be adapted to the medium voltage grid (e.g. 10, 20, 33 kV). The Protect PV.500 is fully compliant with BDEW guidelines for energy producing installations and thus contributes to overall grid stability.