The company says it will produce central inverters – aimed at large-scale projects – at an undisclosed location in South Africa, having “successfully” opened a sales and service office last year in Centurion, near Johannesburg.
SMA, which is reportedly in the process of letting go roughly one-fifth of its 5,000-strong global workforce as it adjusts to the future PV market, says its South Africa production site will be “just as flexible” as its existing factories in Germany and the US state of Colorado.
SMA declined to give more details regarding the size, location and timescale of the South African plant.
