Take Refuge with Solar
Take Refuge with Solar
What do you do if you want to live quietly off-grid in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but your home is located in an old-growth forest with tall incense cedar, pine, and sequoia trees?
These trees are stunning and smell wonderful, but as the sun moves through the sky, they shade some of the solar panels of one of our customers’ home.
The PowerBloc’s STEP micro-converter, mounted under each solar panel, makes it possible to generate solar energy even when shading is challenging.
Watch this “classic” video of our customer and his PowerBloc system in the Sierra Nevada.
With the STEP micro-converter, only the shaded solar panels lose energy production. When the sun breaks through the trees and illuminates a panel, that panel delivers the maximum power independent of the other panels in the array.
Whether you’re in a pine forest on the top of the world, on the wild and scenic coast in Big Sur, or in Texas’ Hill Country, the STEP micro-converter boosts your solar production so that you can power your life independently.
