• View your system’s real-time status, plus energy production, consumption, and import and export data for the day, week, month or year. (Make sure your installer included Consumption Current Transformers, or CTs, with your system to provide all this useful data.)
   
• See where the energy produced by your system is flowing in real-time: to your home, your IQ Batteries, your IQ EV Charger, and/or the grid.
   
• Check the monetary value of the energy your system produced (one of our favorite features), and see what percentage of the energy you’ve used has come from your solar, your batteries, and the grid.
   
• Get insights into how much energy each of your solar panels is producing, and how much they’ve produced for the day.
   

There’s much more to the Enphase App. See how much more here.

Now that you’ve downloaded the Enphase App, let's open it up and get started. Sign in with the email address you used to register your system and the password you added when you set up your Enphase Account around the time your system was installed. If you forgot your password, you can reset it from the app sign-in screen.

Once you’re in, you can use the icons at the bottom of the screen to navigate to the four main pages in the app.

Status
 

This is the default home screen, showing the status of your system. It gives you a snapshot of your current day’s energy production and how that energy has been used: how much your home has used (if your system has Consumption CTs installed), how much you’ve charged or drawn from your IQ Batteries, how much has gone to your IQ EV Charger if you have one, and how much power you’ve sent back to the grid.

The Status screen also gives you shortcuts to your battery controls and settings. At the top of the screen, you’ll see information like the weather and grid connection status (On-Grid or Off-Grid). If you do have batteries, you’ll see the charge level, and your selected profile, like AI Optimization or Self-Consumption. You can also see your net energy production—and whether you’ve been a net importer or exporter for the day—along with an energy independence score.

Here on the home screen, you can tap Live Status to see real-time energy production. This information updates every second and shows you how much energy is being made, used, and transferred from your panels, batteries, IQ EV Charger, and the grid.

Energy

Tap Energy at the bottom of your screen to see data on your system performance. This gives you a wider view of how much energy you generated and used from your panels, battery, and the grid. A summary appears at the top of the screen, and the chart below lets you go into deeper detail on each data point. You can view your energy trends by day, week, month, and year to see the estimated value of the energy your system has produced. You can toggle data inputs on and off for the graph.

Scroll down to get even more information about your energy independence, including an energy score and the estimated value of the solar power you’ve produced.

Array

Tapping the Array tab at the bottom of your screen shows you a detailed breakdown of status and performance for each panel. You can also customize the date range for system data at the top. Each panel is tappable so you can view its individual performance.

Menu

Tap Menu at the bottom to see all your settings and controls. You'll have options to “set it and forget it” or take full control of individual aspects of your system. Tapping System gives you access to information about your devices and their performance, including system reports, live system status, vital statistics, and event and backup history.

In Site Details, you can also change your backup configuration if, say, you want to prepare for a potential power outage and ensure your battery is at 100%. If you need support, you can also find your installer’s contact information there.

Tapping Devices will give you information about specific devices in your system. You can also view event history for your system.

If you want to adjust the controls of your system, navigate to the Settings page. This includes managing your batteries, turning off power to power-hungry appliances if you have an IQ Load Controller, or adding utility rates to your system.

Tapping the Battery icon from the Settings page lets you change your battery profile to fit your energy needs. That includes Savings mode (called AI Optimization in California), which maximizes bill savings by using the battery during peak utility rate periods (when your solar isn’t producing), and in some states like California, exporting energy during peak rate periods when it’s most valuable to you. To leverage Savings or AI Optimization mode, you’ll need to select your utility and your rate plan in the app. Have your electric bill handy so you have that information.

Self-Consumption mode stores solar on-site and uses it when solar production is insufficient (like after sundown and overnight) until the solar produces enough again to power your home. If you have a system without batteries but with an Enphase IQ EV Charger, you can also select Self-Consumption mode to only use excess solar production (and not grid energy) to charge your vehicle. Your system will automatically adjust the charging speed based on available excess solar production.

Another key feature of Enphase IQ Batteries configured for home backup is Storm Guard. Enabling Storm Guard sets the system to automatically monitor the National Weather Service to receive severe weather warnings for your area. If an alert is detected, your profile automatically switches to Full Backup and charges your battery to 100% to make sure you’re ready for a potential outage.

Finally, the Menu page lets you manage your account and notifications, as well as stay up to date on new app features.

If you get alerts or errors, the Support section provides quick answers to common questions, links to your owner’s guide, and access to the Enphase Community, where you can ask questions about your Enphase system and components. You can also find contact info for Enphase Support, including live, 24/7 chat.

Now that you see how much data the Enphase App can provide, you can use it to optimize all the energy your system produces to meet your household needs.

First, if your utility has you on a time-of-use (ToU) rate plan, make sure you know when your on- and off-peak rates kick in. That way you can use your Enphase system to minimize the more expensive grid power you draw during peak hours (usually late afternoon through the evening).

Once you know when your system is producing peak power, you can time your heavier energy use activities like laundry and A/C during peak production.

If you have a plug-in vehicle, you can also time an Enphase IQ EV Charger to leverage your peak solar production, or program it to start charging once your electricity rate drops during off-peak hours. (See more about Enphase EV Chargers below.)

If your system includes Enphase IQ Batteries, you have quite a bit of control over those, too.

Time-of-use optimization: Many utilities are moving to a time-of-use rate structure where they charge different rates during different time periods. The lowest rate—off-peak—will usually be from midnight until mid-afternoon. Peak rate occurs during what are traditionally peak demand periods—mid-afternoon until nighttime. Some utilities also include a “mid-peak” rate that may occur from, say, 9 p.m. until midnight.

Enphase IQ Batteries can help you avoid peak rate charges by simply setting them to discharge once your solar system is no longer producing enough energy to power your home in the evening. That’s why it’s important to work with your installer to calculate your energy needs during peak periods to ensure you have enough battery capacity to power your home during those peak periods when grid energy is most expensive—or even all night until your solar kicks in again to avoid using as much grid power as possible.

Backup power: Your Enphase IQ Batteries can also be configured to hold a percentage of their capacity to ensure you're covered in case of an outage. Again, that’s another reason to work with your installer on right-sizing your battery capacity. Plus, with the Storm Guard feature enabled, you can get National Weather Service alerts for incoming extreme weather, automatically charging your batteries to full (from solar and/or the grid) to ensure you’re protected from blackouts.

Grid services programs: Some utilities offer programs (often called virtual power plants, or VPPs) that pay you to put power from your batteries into the grid during peak hours. These, along with other grid services and battery incentive programs, can be an effective way to increase the return on your investment in batteries for your system. Check with your installer, or with your local utility, to see what’s available and how much they offer.