Amantys spun out of Cambridge to commericalise wind turbine technology

Spin out

Amantys Ltd has been spun out of Cambridge University to commercialise research by Patrick Palmer at the Department of Engineering, who has developed technology that will simplify the design of medium voltage power systems using insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs).

The company is funded by the quoted the technology commercialisation company IP Group plc.

The first application of the technology is for medium voltage inverters in high power wind turbines. “Large wind turbines require medium voltage power systems to deliver the power efficiently,” said Bryn Parry, Managing Director of Amantys “Our technology significantly simplifies the design of these systems through close control of the IGBTs in the system.”

Amantys’ technology will allow power transistors to be configured in a series topology, making it easier to construct systems to switch medium and high voltages. This allows designers to use existing design topologies to build medium voltage inverters with higher efficiency.

Amantys was recently accepted onto the Carbon Trust Entrepreneur Fast Track, which provides strategic and business development consultancy to accelerate growth of early-stage clean tech companies.

Dave Raval, Head of Entrepreneur Fast Track at the Carbon Trust, a publicly funded organisation set up top promote low-carbon technologies, said, “We aim to provide a step change in the commercial prospects of Britain’s very best low carbon start-ups and Amantys is a good example of the innovative technologies we are looking to support.”

Amantys aims to make prototypes available to potential customers in 2011.