At presentthe micro-inverter market is dominated by US-based Enphase Energy, and largelyconfined to the US residential segment.

However,with major inverter players like SMA and Power-One pressing into the space,Enphase and others are expanding beyond their core markets, looking both atdifferent regions and larger project sizes.

The UK,Australia and Japan are all seen as especially promising markets – Japan because of thehuge scale of its residential PV sectors, and the UK and Australia because theyare relatively new to PV, meaning that traditional string inverters are lessentrenched.

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