Reducing the Carbon Footprint

How does Femtogrid successfully contribute to the reduction of CO₂ emission? Before the contribution of Femtogrid to the reduction of the carbon footprint is listed, let’s start off by sketching the renewable field on which Femtogrid focuses its attention:

“Femtogrid develops smart, innovative electronics that improve the performance of renewable energy installations in the built environment and at the same cut costs and reduce the complexities involved. The first focus is on solar installations”.

Femtogrid contributes in 7 ways to the global reduction of CO₂ emission_:

1. On itself solar installations reduce the CO₂ emission as the energy generated by solar installations is produced greenly requiring no fossil energy. The Femtogrid Solar System reinforces the contribution of solar installations as it enables solar installations to perform better and smarter in the built environment. As a result, Femtogrid achieves more energy produced per installation.

2. In turn, the more produced energy per installation lowers the payback time of solar installations making them more attractive for investments.

3. The parallel system design presents a revolution to the built environment as it ensures full roof optimization. Using the Femtogrid Solar System roofs can be utilized which before where left fully or partially untouched due to partial shading. With the Femtogrid Solar System partial shading does not significantly decrease the produced energy per installation. Hence, Femtogrid increases the potential for solar installations.

4. In addition, the Femtogrid Solar System presents a unique characteristic to the renewable market as it allows the installation to be expanded over time lowering the investment threshold for solar installations. This feature enables installations to be started small and over time be expanded.

5. The Femtogrid Solar System offers continuous monitoring for solar installations. Adequate troubleshooting in case of underperformance by system alerts significantly improves the uptime of installations and hereby the energy produced per installation.

6. Moreover Femtogrid believes monitoring is the first step to positively influence the perception of energy, the importance of it, and everybody’s own responsibility at planet earth. Monitoring makes the produced energy, the worth of solar installations to the environment in terms of the CO₂ emission offset, and the spilling of energy more tangible. This may increase the awareness of energy ‘saving’ behaviour.

7. Last but not least, Femtogrid introduces a unique proposition to the renewable market as it is currently engineering a hybrid version that allows both wind and solar energy to be combined on one inverter. So far, no other company has successfully introduced such a hybrid inverter system.

To conclude, Femtogrid both directly and indirectly contributes to the reduction of the carbon footprint. On the one hand, it achieves more energy produced per installation compensating CO₂ emission, and on the other hand, it expands the potential for solar installations. On top of this, it aims to positive influence the importance of green energy and the awareness of energy ‘saving’ behaviour.