More people are becoming contentious about reducing their carbon footprint, and rightfully so. Climate change is increasingly concerning for Australians everywhere as they try and find ways to make their everyday lives more environmentally friendly.
Installing a solar power system in your home is not only a great way to go green, but it is also more reliable and safer than traditional electricity. Here are five benefits to equipping your home with Enphase solar batteries:
1. Get Better Reliability
One of the pros of installing an Enphase battery in your home is its storage capacity feature. This technology allows your battery to store any excess power produced to be used during times of low power production such as overcast or stormy days. Storing enough backup power can even allow your home and all appliances to run as usual when the power grid goes down.
Additionally, Enphase solar systems are installed with Smart Solar technology. This allows panels to function individually as opposed to as one unit when installed on a single wire string converter. When installed that way all panels only perform as well as the weakest link in the unit. Since just 9% of the total surface area of the panel being shaded reduces energy production by 54% this significantly increases your home’s energy production.
2. Save on Bills
The reliability of the Enphase batteries combined with the ingenuity of the smart solar system also leads to more efficient energy production. The average Sydney resident pays 38 cents/kWh for their power bill, which can spike up to 52 cents during peak usage hours. When an Enphase system is installed, that cost drops drastically to 5.3 cents/kWh.
When put to the test Enphase systems exported 110% of their predicted energy output. Any excess energy produced can be automatically fed back into the grid, which puts money back into your pocket with feed-in tariffs. These tariffs put the credit towards your power bill per kWh exported into the grid.
3. Built to Last
Enphase solar systems will last you a lifetime. When put to the test the Mean Time Between Failures of an Enphase system measured over 300 years. Comparatively, the average MTBF of a string converter only measured between 10-15 years.
In other words, the Enphase system has a much lower failure rate and longer lifespan. This is due to Enphase’s performance monitoring software which allows the device to reset remotely and automatically, fixing problems without even requiring a maintenance call.
However, if you do ever run into issues with your new smart solar system, you can have peace of mind with a standard 10-year service guarantee on every Enphase system.
4. Stay Safe Year-round
Access to power is more than a luxury, for most, it’s a necessity. If you lose power during extreme weather conditions and have no secondary way to maintain the internal temperature of your home, you can quickly succumb to those conditions. Thanks to Enphase’s durability and ability to power your home off-grid, you never have to worry about it.
When your Enphase batteries are installed with microinverter technology, you also drastically reduce your risk of fire. Most solar power system fires are started due to high voltage DC arcs, the extreme power of which increases the temperature of surrounding materials and causes them to ignite.
The microinverter technology on the Enphase system protects your home from these fires by converting dangerous DC currents into AC currents. Additionally, if the system ever suffers a fault or there is a blackout the system will shut off automatically as a failsafe.
5. Monitor Your System
Know exactly how well your system is performing in real-time with 24/7 smart monitoring via Enphase Enlighten. You can view your dashboard through your smartphone via the MyEnlighten app, or connect to the website on any internet-capable device.
From here you can monitor system status, environmental benefits and performance. The controls also allow you to compare performance over time and receive maintenance indicators about issues and how to remedy them.
There are a lot of benefits to converting to solar energy like reducing your carbon footprint. When you decide to install an Enphase system you can add performance, reliability, safety, savings and durability to the list. When you’re powering your home you’re powering your life, and you want quality that you can count on when it counts.