SMTC Corp., a global electronics manufacturing services provider, and Enecsys Ltd., a supplier of micro-inverter products for the global solar market, have entered into a partnership to produce Enecsys micro-inverters for the Canadian market at SMTC's Markham, Ontario, facility.
The arrangement enables Enecsys' micro-inverters to meet the Ontario Power Authority's feed-in-tariff domestic-content requirement for renewable energy projects.
Enecsys claims that its micro-inverter systems, which are connected in parallel in order to maximize the energy harvest from each module, can increase a PV system's total energy harvest from 5% to 20%, depending on site-specific situations.