Enphase Energy’s 7th Generation ‘Enphase iq’ Microinverter

Product Brief: Enphase Energy has launched 7th-generation ‘Enphase IQ’ microinverters for the Enphase Home Energy Solution with ‘IQ’. ‘Enphase IQ 7 Micro’ and ‘Enphase IQ 7+ Micro’ are designed for worldwide markets and have started shipping to distributors in the United States.

Product Features: These microinverters are powered by Enphase’s unique software-defined architecture, which results in an efficient design, and a single hardware SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) worldwide.

Application: Residential, commercial, utility-scale PV power plants

Benefits: The IQ 7 family of microinverters is designed to produce 4 percent more power, and is 19 percent lighter and 17 percent smaller than the IQ 6 family of microinverters. The new IQ microinverters offer the same ease of installation with only two-wire cabling, and leverage semiconductor integration for higher reliability and better economies of scale.

Availability: These microinverters are to be phased into markets around the world through the first half of 2018.