Cables and accessories used in photovoltaic power generation installations represent only 5% of the total investment value, but if they are of poor quality, they can cause 15% of malfunctions.

“Cables and cable accessories are only 5% of the investment in a photovoltaic project, but if we don’t use the right ones, they can cause up to 15% of defects”, said Areta Rîpeanu, Sales Manager at Lapp Romania, during the conference “Energy efficiency for the energy transition – Brașov”.

The Lapp company has 21 factories and is active in 144 countries, where it employs approximately 5,500 people. In the last fiscal year, the company achieved a turnover of 1.8 billion euros.

“Just as in the industrial field we are interested in having very reliable equipment, in not having stoppages in production, in the same way in the area of ​​photovoltaic systems, considering the investment costs, we must also take into account the products we use. The weakest link in the system leads to the destruction of the entire system,” said Rîpeanu.

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In 2022, Lapp Romania recorded, according to the data available at the Ministry of Finance, a turnover of 58.3 million lei and a net profit of 4.08 million lei.

The conference in Brașov was the first of a series of 5 scheduled by the Energynomics communication platform, the Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency – FREE and the Directorate for Energy Efficiency within the Ministry of Energy. The project is financed by Norway Grants 2014-2021.