Enphase Energy Expands Solargraf Platform with New Design, Proposal, and Permitting Features
February 20 2024 - 7:00AM
Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a
global energy technology company and the world's leading supplier
of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, today announced
key improvements and new features for Solargraf®, its cloud-based
design, proposal, and permitting software platform. The Solargraf
platform is used by solar installers to create system proposals and
design documents for residential and commercial customers.
The Solargraf platform is constantly updated to improve the
customer experience and help solar installers grow their
businesses. With simple and accurate system designs and permitting
features, the Solargraf platform is designed to help installers
streamline their operations and reduce costs. The key improvements
and new features available to installers include:
- Advanced design
tools. The new three-dimensional (3D) design tool includes
auto roofline, obstruction, and tree detection to help installers
create more accurate and attractive system designs. A new
electrical design tool enables permit-ready single-line diagrams,
three-line diagrams, and detailed calculations that can be created
with just a few clicks.
- NREL and NYSERDA
verification of Shading Analysis feature accuracy. The
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) verified the
accuracy of the Shading Analysis feature, further validating the
overall accuracy of the tool.
- NEM 3.0 support.
Installers can build optimized solar+battery systems based on
energy production/consumption modeling to help predict payback
periods and bill offset under California’s NEM 3.0 net billing
tariff. Enphase will roll out similar support for dynamic rate
structures globally.
- AHJ data
integration. The Solargraf platform now maintains a
database of more than 14,000 records for local agencies (AHJs) that
enforce regulations, standards, and codes to help installers design
systems that are permit ready and streamline the permitting
process.
- Expanded financing
solutions. Multiple financial technology integrations have
been added, enabling proposals with all types of financing
solutions, including loan, lease, and PPAs from third party
financiers to match the unique needs of customers.
- Support for commercial and
industrial (C&I) projects. Solar professionals can
seamlessly design 3D models, explore flat roof and ground mount
system design options, and analyze cumulative cash flow for easy
financing from third party financiers.
- New user interface
(UI). A new UI and enhanced user experience make
navigating through the Solargraf platform simpler, smarter, and
smoother than ever before.
- Public Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs). Public APIs enable the
Solargraf platform to integrate with certain customer relationship
management (CRM) tools, streamlining business operations.
“The Solargraf platform is more than a tool; it's a partner in
our business,” said RJ Sparks, COO and CFO at Semper Solaris. “Its
user-friendly interface and powerful design features have redefined
how we approach solar installations, removing hurdles to make our
work more efficient.”
“We have worked with many solar proposal software tools, and the
Solargraf platform meets the mark on everything we could want,"
said Andrew Himes, operations manager at New Day Solar. "We can
craft detailed and customized project proposals and designs at
record speeds. Additionally, the platform’s financing features are
key assets to our business, helping us provide accounting for costs
and estimated payback periods for our customers.”
Enphase will continue to expand the capabilities of its
Solargraf platform throughout 2024 to help customers more
efficiently sell and design solar and battery systems. The planned
new features will include auto-roofline detection to eliminate the
need for manual tracing; “Smart Designer” to automatically optimize
solar and battery systems and place panels based on consumption or
bill offset targets; modeling with power control system (PCS)
capabilities to avoid main panel upgrades and meet utility
standards; and a self-serve permit feature to simplify the process
of creating permit plan sets in less than 15 minutes. The Solargraf
platform is currently available for customers in the United States,
Canada, Brazil, Germany, and Austria. Enphase expects to expand the
platform into the Netherlands, France, Australia, and several other
countries in 2024.
“In a rapidly evolving industry, the Solargraf platform keeps us
ahead of the curve,” said Keith Murphy, CEO and founder of
Astrawatt Solar. “The platform empowers us to deliver proposals
that showcase the true potential of solar energy to our growing
customer base.”
“The Solargraf platform is a purpose-driven
software-as-a-service platform built to scale, both in terms of its
capabilities and availability to support installers deploy Enphase
Energy Systems for homeowners and businesses,” said Jayant Somani,
senior vice president and general manager, digital business unit at
Enphase Energy. “Enphase remains committed to helping installers
navigate the complexities of solar design with ease to ensure
success in every project and grow their business.”
For more information about the Solargraf platform, please visit
the website.
About Enphase Energy, Inc.
Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company based in
Fremont, CA, is the world's leading supplier of microinverter-based
solar and battery systems that enable people to harness the sun to
make, use, save, and sell their own power—and control it all with a
smart mobile app. The company revolutionized the solar industry
with its microinverter-based technology and builds all-in-one
solar, battery, and software solutions. Enphase has shipped more
than 73 million microinverters, and approximately 4.0 million
Enphase-based systems have been deployed in more than 150
countries. For more information, visit https://enphase.com/.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements,
including statements related to the expected capabilities and
performance of the Solargraf platform; the ability of the Solargraf
platform to help installers grow their business, streamline
operations and reduce costs; and the ability of the Solargraf
platform to simplify and accelerate the end-to-end sales and
installation process for solar professionals. These forward-looking
statements are based on Enphase’s current expectations and
inherently involve significant risks and uncertainties. Actual
results and the timing of events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of
certain risks and uncertainties, including those risks described in
more detail in Enphase’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and other documents on
file with the SEC from time to time, which are available on the
SEC’s website at https://www.sec.gov/. Enphase Energy undertakes no
duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements
contained in this release as a result of new information, future
events, or changes in its expectations, except as required by
law.
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