Safari Power sues Chint Energy Programs for faulty utility-scale inverters
New York-based photo voltaic developer Safari Power sued Chint Energy Programs in the USA District Court docket for the Central District of California in March of 2022 after alleged defects in Chint’s inverters resulted in three dozen fires at utility-scale photo voltaic initiatives in Georgia in lower than a two-year interval.
The Georgia initiatives had been constructed by SolAmerica Power Companies and the ability generated on the websites is bought to Georgia Energy Firm underneath a PPA.
Case No. 2:22-cv-1522 particulars the grievance for “negligence, breach of specific guarantee and breach of implied guarantee of merchantability.”
The plaintiff Safari Power mentioned within the lawsuit that every of the inverter fires occurred abruptly and unexpectedly.
“Because of the fires, every of the topic inverters was destroyed. Different property and tools at Plaintiffs’ amenities had been broken by the fires as properly, together with however not restricted to electrical and communications cables that weren’t equipped by Chint,” the lawsuit states.
The swimsuit says even supposing Chint changed sure items which have caught hearth or in any other case failed, the corporate “has not repaired, changed or refunded the acquisition value of the multitude of different items which might be faulty however haven’t but spontaneously combusted or in any other case failed.”
On June 24, 2022, the court docket referred the case to non-public mediation and ordered the decision to happen by August 11, 2023.
