Abound Alliance

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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Northern States Metals (maker of Solar Flex Rack): Solar FlexRack is substantially reducing installation costs of commercial solar array projects all over the U.S. and Canada with its patent-pending ground-mount and roof-mount systems.


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.