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About the project
Miami Shores sits on a slim barrier between Biscayne Bay and the North Miami mainland, and the neighborhood has the grid reliability you'd expect from that geography — it goes out during storms, and sometimes it stays out for a while. The homeowner wanted a system that wouldn't just export power on sunny days but would actually keep the home running through the days that matter.
Sprightful designed a 44-panel 16.28 kW rooftop array paired with three Enphase Encharge 10 batteries — about 30 kWh of usable backup, enough to carry an entire home's essential loads through a typical multi-day outage. The Enphase IQ 8+ microinverters enable the 'sunlight backup' feature: even after the batteries discharge, the panels can directly power the home during daylight hours without the grid. For a South Florida hurricane season, that's the difference between a resilient home and one that's just on solar.