Enphase Energy and ProSolar Restore Solar Power at Bluebeard’s Castle Resort in the Caribbean
June 22 2020 - 8:00AM
Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), a global energy technology
company and the world’s leading supplier of solar microinverters,
today announced that ProSolar Systems, a US Virgin Islands-based
solar engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm, has
used seventh-generation Enphase microinverters to restore and
upgrade the commercial solar system at the historic Bluebeard’s
Castle resort in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Bluebeard’s Castle resort solar system was
initially commissioned in January 2014 with a rated capacity of 500
kW. Before the resort property and solar system were severely
damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, the system was
composed of 1,887 solar modules and Enphase M250™ microinverters,
spanning 18 resort buildings and four ground-mounted arrays. The
upgraded solar system features nearly 250 fewer solar modules, with
1,640 Enphase microinverters, but yields an upgraded system rating
of 524 kW and projected annual energy savings of more than
$350,000.
“One of the most powerful aspects of using Enphase
microinverters at Bluebeard’s Castle is that this complicated solar
system is on a single, easy-to-use monitoring platform, which is a
major help for long-term operations and maintenance work,” said
Ashley Edwards, project manager at ProSolar Systems. “We were able
to realize significant savings because the original Enphase M250
microinverters, cables, and other balance-of-system components
linked right up with the new Enphase IQ 7™ microinverters on a
single platform. It was even possible to redeploy Enphase
microinverters once attached to modules that had been mangled by
the storm in a single, 90-module ground-mounted array. The Enphase
Enlighten™ monitoring platform recognized and displayed that array
alongside the new IQ 7 microinverters without missing a beat.”
“I worked for the company that originally installed
the solar system at Bluebeard’s Castle in late 2013, at which time
it was the largest privately-owned commercial solar system in the
Caribbean,” said Dan Chrisman, lead solar installer at ProSolar
Systems. “Enphase was the right choice for this complex project
because it gave us a lot of design flexibility, while also offering
ease of installation and simple commissioning. I am proud of how
the new system for Bluebeard’s Castle has come together and
appreciate the support Enphase has provided on some of the
technical challenges inherent to the property.”
The Enphase IQ 7 microinverter leverages Enphase’s
55 nm custom ASIC for higher reliability and better economies of
scale. This high-performance microinverter is based on the unique,
software-defined architecture from Enphase and features built-in
support for Rapid Shutdown. Enphase microinverters are subjected to
a rigorous reliability and quality testing regiment with over one
million cumulative hours of test cycles in heat, high humidity,
salty air, and extreme cold. Enphase IQ 7 microinverters are
designed to be long-lived energy assets and do not contain
complicated moving parts or easily breakable components, such as
fans, and are backed by a 25-year warranty.
“With the Bluebeard’s Castle project, the team at
ProSolar has demonstrated it is one of the leaders in exploiting
the full capabilities of the Enphase IQ™ system, and I commend them
for this accomplishment,” said Dave Ranhoff, chief commercial
officer at Enphase Energy. “Before Enphase releases a new product,
we subject our microinverters to intense quality testing to ensure
they are durable enough to survive extreme climate conditions, and
it’s great to see ProSolar and its customers benefiting from this
practice.”
For more information about commercial and
residential solar in Florida and across the Caribbean, please visit
the ProSolar website, and for more information about commercial
solar with Enphase IQ microinverters, please visit the Enphase
Energy website.
About Enphase Energy, Inc.
Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company,
delivers smart, easy-to-use solutions that manage solar generation,
storage and communication on one intelligent platform. The Company
revolutionized the solar industry with its microinverter technology
and produces a fully integrated solar-plus-storage solution.
Enphase has shipped more than 27 million microinverters, and over
1.1 million Enphase systems have been deployed in more than 130
countries. For more information, visit www.enphase.com and follow
the company on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Enphase Energy®, the Enphase logo, M250, IQ 7, IQ,
Enlighten, and other trademarks or service names are the trademarks
of Enphase Energy, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes
and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
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statements, including statements related to the expected
capabilities and performance of Enphase Energy’s technology and
products such as efficiency, kWh production, and power output; our
product quality, reliability and ease of installation and
monitoring; potential energy cost savings realized from our
products; and the quality of products and service provided by our
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Media Contact:
Christian Zdebel, pr@enphase.com, 484-788-2384
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