Enphase Energy to Acquire SunPower's Microinverter Business

게시됨 2018. 6. 13.
SunPower  Enphase 
Enphase Energy, Inc. and SunPower Corporation announced a definitive agreement for Enphase to acquire SunPower's microinverter business for $25 million in cash and 7.5 million shares of Enphase common stock. Key highlights of the acquisition include:

- Advances AC Modules (ACM) as the future of residential solar

- Enhances SunPower's Equinox™ Home Solar System with a custom line of Enphase's IQ microinverters for use with SunPower AC Modules

- Enphase expects to add $60-$70 million annualized revenue in second half of 2019 at 33%-35% gross margin

- Adds over 140 patents to Enphase's strong IP portfolio

- Expects to close by end of the third quarter of 2018 with initial IQ shipments in the fourth quarter

- $25 million cash to be funded from Enphase's balance sheet in two installments

"We are pleased to become the microinverter supplier for SunPower's AC Modules," said Badri Kothandaraman, president and CEO of Enphase Energy. "The IQ 7XS 320W AC microinverter in an ACM strongly complements SunPower's high efficiency solar cells, communication and racking to create a high performance, high quality and easy-to-use Equinox™ Home Solar System, providing exceptional value to homeowners, dealers and architects."

"SunPower customers will continue to see the same quality, high performance that they see now as Enphase exclusively co-develops microinverters for our industry leading residential Equinox solar product," said SunPower CEO Tom Werner. "As a result of this strategic partnership, SunPower looks forward to benefitting from Enphase's expertise, allowing us to continue containing costs, leveraging R&D support and helping streamline our business priorities."


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