Microinverter Wars: Enecsys and Enphase go Transatlantic

Greentech Media
The battle of the solar microinverters is heating up, and here’s one potential Trans-Atlantic match-up. On one side you’ve got U.S.-based Enphase, which has shipped 1 million microinverters at home and is planning an IPO. On Monday the Petaluma, Calif.-based startup announced that it’s invading Europe via France, Belgium and the Netherlands, where its devices have passed Continental standards and are ready to be installed. On the other side you’ve got Enecsys, a British startup with only tens of thousands of European solar rooftops carrying its microinverters, though it claims a big potential advantage in Germany. On Tuesday the startup announced a partnership that allows it to sell in Canada’s Ontario province’s lucrative solar market, its first big landing on North American shores.