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About the project
Delray Beach sits far enough inland from the Intracoastal that grid reliability should be a given — but the 2020s taught South Florida otherwise. When the previous owners of this Waterleaf Lane home commissioned Sprightful in 2021, they wanted solar they could actually rely on during an outage: not just net-metered export credit, but a real battery stack that could keep the fridge, the well pump, and the AC running through a storm.
Sprightful delivered a 52-panel, 19 kW rooftop array on the home's Spanish tile roof — each standoff bolted with stainless-steel hardware directly into the trusses below (not clamped to the tile, which is how wind events crack tile roofs) and sealed with a flashed tile-replacement mount to keep it watertight — paired with three Enphase Encharge 10 batteries, roughly 30 kWh of usable backup. Because everything is on the Enphase platform, the homeowner can see panel-level and battery-level status in a single app, and the system can island itself from the grid in under a second. The install spanned November 2–20, 2021.