As Switzerland’s solar and storage industry scales up, ELEKTRON is positioning itself as a trusted partner for resilient, modular solutions.
Ahead of Solar & Storage Live Zurich, we talked to Peter Dietiker, Managing Director of Green Building at ELEKTRON AG, about the company’s role in Switzerland’s evolving solar-storage sector.
“We place great importance on the following aspects: long product life expectancy, adaptability to new customer requirements, technical support for troubleshooting, and expandability for the future.”
How does Elektron position itself in the international solar-storage industry?
ELEKTRON imports solar batteries into Switzerland and sells them to installation companies and industrial customers. We are an added value reseller and support our B2B customers with design, training, commissioning and troubleshooting. We offer solar batteries for indoor and outdoor use.
As a company based in Switzerland, how does your domestic solar-storage market differ from other international markets? How do you adapt your strategy?
ELEKTRON has been supplying discerning installation customers in Switzerland with high-end products, advice and support for 75 years. We know the solar market and the installation industry very well and therefore select the right products for our customers’ needs.
We develop our strategy in dialogue with our customers. It is essential for our customers that technical support is competent, fast and available in Swiss German, French and Italian. Our offerings have open standards for the integration of third-party brands and are highly modular and expandable.
As a solutions provider, how important is resilience – particularly in a Swiss context – for your customers?
ELEKTRON tests products in pilot installations before listing them. We place great importance on the following aspects: long product life expectancy, adaptability to new customer requirements, technical support for troubleshooting, and expandability for the future. Our customers increasingly demand this from us.
What challenges do you foresee in scaling solar-storage uptake in Switzerland – such as regulatory barriers or supply chain constraints – and how is Elektron addressing them?
ELEKTRON sees the biggest hurdle in distorted pricing systems in Switzerland’s basic supply. End customers do not pay the least when the exchange price is at its lowest. This is due to a lack of market openness for customers below 100,000kWh.
In return, the compensation costs increase the average electricity price, which is not economically efficient.
We prepare our customers for dynamic prices so that they can benefit from them with their battery storage systems. And, we address industrial and commercial customers who can already benefit from the open electricity market.
At Solar & Storage Live Zurich, what message about Elektron’s products do you most want visitors to remember when they meet you?
ELEKTRON offers modular and expandable battery systems from Solinteg and Pylontech to installation partners in Switzerland. This enables us to implement projects ranging from 10 to 5,000kWh, indoors or outdoors, DC or AC coupled.
With or without emergency power (3-phase and with full AC power). Our systems are also island- and black start-capable. ELEKTRON also supports you where you do not yet have a solution.
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