Naked Energy
Simon Povall is an experienced engineer with a background in electrical and electronics engineering, holding an HND from Birmingham Polytechnic. Currently, Simon is a systems engineer at Naked Energy Limited, where development of a solar thermal collector for commercial buildings is underway. Previous roles include lead development test engineer at Elekta Ltd and radiotherapy engineer at Royal Marsden Hospital. Simon started a significant portion of the career as a staff engineer at Applied Materials Implant Division UK before taking on a retired status since July 2022.
Naked Energy
Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.The versatile, modular design of Virtu® places crystalline photovoltaic cells in an evacuated solar thermal collector. For any given area more of the sun’s energy is converted into heat and electricity (80% of the 1000W/m2 available) thanksto the patented heat transfer mechanism.Thermal and electrical outputs are optimized irrespective of geographic or climatic conditions. With the isothermally cooled PV cells protected from the environment, Virtu® is especially suited to harsh high-insolation markets.Naked Energy is in the final stages of preparing for commercial launch to address global applications for domestic, commercial and industrial customers. Virtu® is both disruptive and scalable.