Enphase recently announced its involvement in one of the world’s first apartment building projects using solar panels, battery storage and software-based energy management – and it’s in Australia.
The system was installed at building in Newtown, Sydney; operated by student housing co-operative Stucco.
The installation features 30 kilowatts of solar panels, 114 Enphase S230 microinverters and 36 Enphase AC Batteries. Combined, the batteries have a total of 43.2 kilowatts of storage capacity and represent the largest Enphase storage system commissioned anywhere in the world to date.
The system is expected to provide up to 80 percent of energy requirements for the building; which is home to 40 residents.
“In addition to being the largest Enphase Storage System commissioned since the Enphase AC Battery was launched in Australia in August 2016, this project illustrates how solar and storage can co-exist in multi-unit residential buildings, said Nathan Dunn, managing director of Enphase Asia-Pacific.
The Enphase AC Battery is an affordable modular system, enabling system owners to add capacity as required. Demand for AC battery in Australia and New Zealand has been strong and in September the company forecast 70,000 of its batteries would be purchased in the two countries over the next year.
Enphase microinverters are also a popular solar product; with approximately 13 million shipped globally to date. More than 540,000 Enphase residential and commercial systems have been deployed around the world.
Unlike conventional string inverters installed with many residential and commercial solar power systems, microinverters operate independently; with one of the compact units associated with each panel in the array. This means if a single solar panel is malfunctioning for whatever reason, it won’t pull down the electricity production of the entire system.
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