eIQ Energy has selected the industry veteran Kris Jernstedt as the vice president of worldwide sales and field operations. He will be working at the company’s San Jose headquarters and look after all the sales efforts related to company’s new line of products which also includes vBoost optimizer and the vComm communications module. Jernstedt has 8 yrs of experience in solar energy sector and director-level sales, business development positions at the Xantrex Technology and Advanced Energy, he was also vice president of sales and marketing position in TTI Solar.

Jernstedt also played a strategic sales role in the power conversion with the MKS Instruments ENI Products Division. Jernstedt said the company’s technology and value proposition fit easily with his background in power electronics and he also looks forward to support eIQ Energy team to get early successes and gain sales traction with the Parallel Solar technology. It is an easy advantage which will enable solar professionals in the entire value chain to decreases the costs also simplify design and develop energy harvest during the lifetime of the array.

Oliver Janssen, the CEO of eIQ Energy said he is happy to welcome Kris on board at the eIQ Energy and combination of his power electronics expertise including solar industry experience and the high-level customer contacts will support in bringing adoption of the eIQ Energy’s Parallel Solar solution as the company continue to make and expand the customer relationships. The companies Parallel Solar uses most advanced DC power management technology, included in vBoost DC-to-DC converter module, to get easy connection of solar the panels in parallel than in a series.

This decision will allow connection of a unique number of panels on single cable, very much decreasing the up-front solar array costs and also provide more design flexibility and boost the lifetime energy harvest with the distributed MPPT. The vComm module includes multiple cable runs into the unified feed to central inverter and it also uses power-bus wiring to collect the real-time performance data from the vBoost to use in the Parallel Solar Monitoring System data analysis software.

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