Add the IQ Battery 10C to existing third-party solar
The IQ Battery 10C now works with existing third-party solar systems, providing whole-home backup, multi-day outage resilience, and unified energy monitoring. No replacement of existing solar equipment required.
More capacity. More capabilities.
Add IQ Battery 10C to existing third-party solar
Add whole-home backup capability to homes with an existing solar system by retrofitting an IQ Battery 10C*, leaving the existing inverter and panels in place.
Add Enphase solar and IQ Battery 10C to expand capacity
Add Enphase solar and the IQ Battery 10C* alongside an existing string-inverter system. Increase total generation capacity and add backup for homes with growing energy needs.
*California customers can add the IQ Battery 10C and preserve NEM 1.0 or 2.0 status. Visit the NEM expansion page for all the details.
Available configurations
Retrofit the IQ Battery 10C to an existing third-party solar system for whole-home backup. No new solar required.
Add new Enphase solar and the IQ Battery 10C* alongside an existing third-party system for backup and increased generation capacity.
*California customers can add the IQ Battery 10C and preserve NEM 1.0 or 2.0 status. Visit the NEM expansion page for all the details.
Add new Enphase solar and the IQ Battery 10C* alongside an existing third-party system to expand generation. No backup included.
*California customers can add the IQ Battery 10C and preserve NEM 1.0 or 2.0 status. Visit the NEM expansion page for all the details.
Integration overview
IQ Combiner 6C
Built-in connection point for third-party solar, supports up to 15.36 kVA of third-party PV.
Charging
Existing solar can charge the IQ Battery 10C on-grid and off-grid, subject to utility rules.
Backup behavior
Third-party solar stays online during outage; battery recovers charge from it each morning; supports multi-day outages.
Monitoring
Unified* production, consumption and storage view in the Enphase App, including third-party solar output.
Power control
Busbar overload control is supported when integrating with third-party solar systems. If expanding with additional Enphase solar, NEM expansion* with non-export is supported.
*Unified monitoring is available only in whole-home backup configurations. Not available for partial-home or grid-tied-only setups.
*California customers with existing NEM 1/2 tariffs can use zero export/NEM expansion to avoid transitioning to NBT/NEM 3.0. Aggregate Power Export Limiting (PEL) is not currently supported. Learn more.
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