Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, ENACT Systems is one of the leading cloud-based, solar platforms for the solar industry. ENACT’s EnerCloud Platform powers complete solar business operations for 100+ customers, ranging from top global corporations to emerging project developers.

I have known the ENACT team and their founder, Deep Chakraborty, since 2016 (my days at CivicSolar) as we then shared an overlapping customer base and have been supportive of each other’s businesses over the years.

This week, Deep and I caught up on what is new at ENACT and their new storage-focused solutions.

Some of the topics we covered in this conversation are:

• History of ENACT Systems (0:45)
• Deep’s background prior to founding ENACT Systems (1:43)
• ENACT’s core focus: Their end-to-end platform to manage design, sales, project management, and asset management (2:20)
• ENACT’s position in the market vis-a-vis other players like HelioScope, Aurora Solar,.. (3:20)
• Quick overview of ENACT’s platform and its features for residential and commercial solar installers (4:15)
• ENACT’s core strength: its Project Management capabilities (5:15)
• ENACT’s other features: Design, Sales/Proposals, Financing, Project Management, Asset Services, integration with other tools like HelioScope, Asset Management Features and ROI calculations (5:30)
• ENACT’s sweet spot in the market: Regionally spread-out companies, sales-heavy resi-focused US based installers (7:55)
• ENACT’s international focus and leadership position in the C&I market in India, Middle East, South East Asia,… (8:36)
• ENACT’s storage capabilities and a brief demo of the design features, storage features supporting LG Chem batteries, pricing and proposal (9:19)