Enphase headquarters in Petaluma

nphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) is a global energy technology company and the world’s leading microinverter supplier for the solar industry. The company is based in Petaluma, California, just north of San Francisco, with offices in 12 countries around the world. Enphase delivers simple, innovative and reliable energy management solutions that advance the worldwide potential of renewable energy. Martin Fornage co-founded the company in 2006 with the aim of bringing smart, distributed energy resources that consist of hardware, software and bi-directional communications to the solar industry.

Enphase technology is designed to increase energy production, simplify design and installation, improve system uptime and reliability, reduce fire safety risk, and provide a platform for intelligent energy management. Since our inception, we have shipped over 12 million microinverters and more than 500,000 Enphase residential and commercial systems deployed in 100+ countries.

Our fifth-generation microinverter product is already on the market, with our sixth-generation suite set to debut in early 2017. In the inverter and power conversion sector, microinverters and other module-level power electronics have become the dominant inverter choice for residential and small to medium commercial solar installations in the U.S. and other regions. In addition to microinverters, the company recently launched the Enphase Home Energy Solution in Australia. The Enphase Home Energy Solution is the world’s first fully integrated platform for managing solar and energy storage as one entity, and it combines generation, management, and control to provide a complete, smart grid-ready home energy solution for residential customers.

Enphase AC Battery

Enphase S-280 Microinverter

Energy storage requires smart electronics, and leading energy technology companies such as Enphase are well-positioned to take advantage of the fast-growing market segment around storage. The necessity for intelligent energy management solutions like ours, with the inverters serving as the “brains” of the systems, has become evident as more solar is deployed, and the utility grids must handle a larger and larger amount of distributed energy generation assets.

Enphase ASIC

In addition to moving into total energy management, Enphase continues to drive relentless innovation in its core microinverter business. Our sixth generation microinverters will offer deeper integration of components in custom chips, and design innovations that decrease the materials used and reduce the size and physical volume of the unit, lowering production costs and making installation easier for customers. With this smaller size, unit efficiency will also increase in order to reduce power dissipation.

Solar is transitioning from simply injecting raw energy into the power grid to being smartly integrated with storage, energy management technologies, and the grid. Networking capabilities and remote control and monitoring of power electronics are an absolute necessity in this new paradigm of transactive energy. Enphase energy management solutions will enable a more ubiquitous deployment of those smart, distributed energy resources to help the world realize the full potential of renewable energy. For more information, visit us at www.enphase.com

Provided by Martin Fornage, Co-founder,
Chief Technology Officer, Enphase Energy

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