ENRY'S PLEX SL

Their core work

ENRY'S PLEX SL is the Spanish SME behind WATLY, an autonomous mobile water treatment plant that runs entirely on solar energy and simultaneously provides off-grid internet connectivity. Their technology combines solar power generation, advanced water purification (treating contaminated water into clean drinking water), and a built-in communications hub — making it deployable in remote or disaster-hit areas without any external infrastructure. The company progressed from concept validation (SME Phase 1) through full product development (SME Phase 2), indicating a product-focused company rather than a research group. Their value proposition targets water-scarce, electricity-poor, and connectivity-deprived communities or emergency response contexts.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ENRY'S PLEX SL's H2020 participation is essentially a single product development arc compressed into 2015–2017. Their Phase 1 entry (SME-1, €50K) was a feasibility study with no descriptive keywords — purely concept validation. Their Phase 2 project (SME-2, €1.4M) reveals the full technology stack: water sanitation, solar energy, off-grid electricity, and internet connectivity bundled into one mobile unit. There is no meaningful shift in focus because both projects represent the same product at different stages of development — the evolution is from idea to prototype, not from one domain to another.

Their trajectory is that of a product company scaling a single integrated technology; future collaborations would likely involve deployment partnerships, pilot sites, or supply chain integration rather than new R&D directions.

How they like to work

ENRY'S PLEX SL has acted exclusively as coordinator in both H2020 projects, meaning they drive the agenda, manage the grant, and own the technology being developed. Their network is extremely tight — one unique partner in one country — which suggests they operate as a focused product company rather than a research consortium builder. Working with them likely means engaging on their terms around a defined product or deployment scenario, not joining a broad multi-partner research effort.

Their H2020 network consists of a single partner in one country, reflecting the tightly product-focused nature of the SME Instrument programme they used. There is no evidence of broad European research network ties.

What sets them apart

ENRY'S PLEX SL is rare in that they combined three otherwise separate infrastructure problems — clean water, electricity, and internet access — into one autonomous mobile unit. Most environmental technology SMEs address one of these at a time; WATLY's integrated approach targets the most underserved deployment contexts (off-grid communities, disaster zones, refugee settings) where all three are simultaneously absent. Their successful progression through both SME Instrument phases signals that the technology was credible enough to earn €1.4M in EU validation funding.

Highlights from their portfolio

• WATLY
  The SME-2 project (€1.4M) is the largest grant, representing full-scale product development of an autonomous solar water purifier with built-in internet connectivity — an unusually integrated solution for off-grid humanitarian contexts.
• WATLY
  The SME-1 feasibility project (€50K) is notable for being the successful entry point that led directly to the larger Phase 2 award, demonstrating a clean SME Instrument progression from idea to funded prototype.