Achieve long-term financial confidence

SMA Inverter Availability

SMA offers three outstanding Inverter Availabilities: 97, 98 and 99 percent. The SMA Inverter Availability provides the long-term financial confidence that your inverter will meet specified uptime metrics, or SMA will make compensation payment as agreed in the relevant Service contract. The Inverter Availability service requires that the inverter is under an active SMA Factory Warranty or SMA Extended Warranty.

SMA Inverter Availability

Overview of Scope of SMA Availability

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PV power plants are long-term capital investments. Operators and investors must be able to rely on their availability.

SMA’s solutions have availability rates of up to 99.98 percent, * ensuring a project’s success throughout its entire lifetime.

* Plant under SMA service contract

Our availability promise for unmatched uptime

Inverter availability of 97-99% uptime or higher
Annual availability assessment and report
Compensation payment if inverter falls short of the warranted uptime

The SMA Inverter Availability is available in five year segments or one year segments if more than four inverters are under contract. The maximum duration of the Inverter Availability is twenty years combined with the SMA Factory Warranty or SMA Extended Warranty.

The SMA Inverter Availability is available for the following SMA products:

Sunny Central: SCxxxxCP-XT, SCxxxCP-JP, SCxxxCP-US, SCxxxx, SCxxxx-US, SCxxxx-EV, SCxxxx-EV-US, SCS-xxxx-UP, SCS-xxxx-UP-US
Sunny Central Storage: SCSxxx, SCSxxxx, SCSxxxx-US, SCSxxxx-EV, SCSxxxx-EV-US, SCS-xxxxUP, SCS-xxxx-UP-US, SCS-xxxx- UP-XT, SCS-xxxx- UP-XT-US