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Building the Global Digital Energy Network Ilén Zazueta-Hall Director of Product Management, Energy Management Systems

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Building the Global Digital Energy Network

Ilén Zazueta-HallDirector of Product Management,Energy Management Systems

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| © 2014 Enphase Energy, Inc.2

•Established 2006, first commercial shipments 2008•Headquarters in California, 500+ employees •Offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Christchurch•Listed on NASDAQ: ENPH•More than 10 million units shipped, representing over 1GW•Announced fifth generation microinverter, Enphase Energy Management System and Enphase AC Battery

About Enphase Energy

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Our roots

134 PATENT FAMILIES(over 70 patents granted worldwide)

Power conversion, Communication and Software Infrastructure

SolarGeneration Storage Load

ManagementUtility

ServicesNew

Application

Enphase Energy is a Technology Company in the solar industry.

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The Global Potential of Solar

2015 2050

• Solar is slightly more than 2% of the energy mix in Australia• Solar is less than 1% of energy mix globally• Approximately 500,000 solar homes in US, while 900,000

new homes are built annually• Globally PV solar is expected to become a dominant source

of power generation globally by 2050

Source: GTM Research, IEA, UBS

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Large scale,Highly engineered,Highly complex

"Social Network Analysis Visualization" by Martin Grandjean Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons

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Architectural• Knits together divergent networking technologies and administrative

domains (interconnected networks)• Distributed system – failure tolerant, cost efficient• Each layer relies on next lower layer to execute more primitive

functions and provides services to the next higher layer

Cultural/Framework• Government + industry partnership, transition to commercialization• Free and open access to the basic standards• Competitive collaboration for interoperability

Why did the Internet scale?

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Evolving architecture

With the diversification of energy sources, energy infrastructure is decentralizing now; intelligent devices will enable truly distributed energy systems

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Layered Functions and Services

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Layered Functions and Servicesda

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grid

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A case in point

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Continuous feedback from 340,000 systems monitored in 90+ countries Approx 2 TB of data per day

Millions of Connected Devices

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Voltage issues due to high PV penetration

• Identified 25,000 sites• 6 months in planning• 800,000 microinverters • 1 week rollout• 0 truck rolls

Millions of dollars saved.New solar installations allowed

Data + Control = A better grid

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Key challenges

Looking forward

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Connected Home, Networked Energy

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• Government + industry partnership• Free and open access to basic standards• Competitive collaboration for interoperability

Learning from the Internet

The technology exists, cultural/framework challenges remain key

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Everybody Wins…

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