Mersen Becomes Member of SunSpec Alliance

Mersen, a worldwide expert in high-performance materials for extreme environments, joined the SunSpec Alliance, an industry coalition formed to establish global interoperability among renewable energy system components and management systems, this month."Mersen is thrilled to be a part of the SunSpec Alliance," said Stephen Colvin, vice president of marketing at Mersen. "Mersen has been at the forefront of developing electrical protection solutions for the solar power industry."The Alliance is made up of component vendors (inverters, PV panels, string combiners, monitoring hardware, trackers, environmental sensors, and balance-of-system components); networking, software and computer hardware companies; Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) firms, system integrators, financial institutions, utilities, regulatory agencies and energy consumers.