Clean Technology

It is the largest funding round of a European clean tech company this year: The British Cleantech Startup Enecsys, manufacturer of modular inverters or micro-inverters for photovoltaic and solar, has 28 million euros collected rich. 12.3 million euros invested CPE ( Climate Change Capital Private Equity ), the private equity arm of Climate Change Capital, which also just in the startup Nujira invested. Other investors are the long-term partner , Wellington Partners , NES Partners and Good Energies .

In the micro-inverters Enecsys no electrolytic capacitors or opto-couplers are installed, but only long-lived components. Enecsys are guaranteed for 20 years. The inverter module are designed to increase the energy yield of photovoltaic systems by 5 to 20 percent. In addition erleichternsie planning and installation of photovoltaic systems, improve the safety (high voltages fall away). In addition, the PV system can be better monitored than conventional systems: to this end Enecsys has integrated wireless radio modules according to the ZigBee standard, which transfer the data to the Gateway of Enecsys, which in turn is connected to the Internet.

Enecsys has the first 200 – and 240-W micro-inverter SMI-Series in Europe and the United States recently brought to market the. At the Intersolar Europe 2011 is Enecsys Hall 3, Stand E3.3 represented.