MicroBlox Solar Kit: Enphase Microinverters, Monitoring

MicroBlox Solar Kit boosts rooftop PV with Enphase microinverters, panel-level DC-AC optimization, and web monitoring, overcoming shade, snow, debris, limited roof space, and seasonal sunlight while enabling Ontario MicroFIT participation.

The Important Points

A modular PV system using Enphase microinverters for panel-level harvest, higher yield, and simple web monitoring.

Enphase DC-AC microinverters harvest power per panel
Boosts output in shade, snow, debris, and seasonal shifts
Modular blocks fit complex roofs with dormers and skylights

Home Energy Solutions has come out with a new innovative technology to help Ontario residents adopt solar power sooner and cheaper with better efficiency than ever before.

The MicroBlox solar kit combats traditional solar power problems such as limited roof space on rooftop solar grids and shade, snow and debris, and varying seasonal sunlight by harvesting up to 25 more electricity. Residents can also monitor the simple system from any computer with internet connection.

The MicroBlox system uses the breakthrough Enphase DCAC microinverter system now aimed at Ontario, which harvests power from individual solar panels rather than using one inverter to harvest the entire array. The result is a far more efficient system than traditional solar systems, as demonstrated by a photovoltaic system in Calgary that showcases scalable performance. Once installed, maximum output is achieved through a userfriendly web based monitoring device — Enlighten — to measure and manage electricity production.

This new technology shows huge promise for cleaner and renewable energy in Canada, where the Toronto Parking Authority is going solar alongside other adopters. For the first time ever we have a system that configures to smaller and varying structures while providing more efficiency and reliability and supporting utility-led backup power supply projects across Ontario at a lower initial investment, says Home Energy Solutions President Dave Egles. Ontario roofs rarely have a large continuous pitch. They have dormers, skylights, valleys and vents. With the smaller solar building blocks, we can put solar on different roof slopes and have the total output combined. The MicroBlox flexibility allows more people to install solar and to participate in programs such as Ontarios MicroFIT program.