The STEP™ Micro-Converter is a panel-level DC-DC micro-converter that steps up each solar panel’s potential to the 380 V DC High Potential Direct Current (“HVDC”) bus of the PowerBloc® nanogrid. The STEP micro-converter is an integral part of the PowerBloc and provides unprecedented performance for solar arrays.

For our customers, YouSolar designs the solar array's size, location, and orientation and specifies the solar panel power. We also provide the panel-level STEP™ Micro-converter, which is integral to the performance of the PowerBloc, but we do not recommend a particular panel or install the solar array.

Recent data shows that Greenland has been losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, 20% higher than thought. The ice loss in Greenland is equivalent to the volume of the Empire State Building turning into a lake every two minutes.

In our recent update, “The Duck Becomes a Swan,” we noted, "The problem with solar is that there can be too much of the good stuff when no one needs it and too little or none when power is in high demand.” Utilities in California have pushed back on the state's solar incentives. Since April of 2023, utilities only have to pay for solar fed into the grid what it is worth in the wholesale power markets. When solar arrays are cranking at noon, that is next to nothing.

During a speech on 23 September 1997, shortly after returning to Apple, Steve Jobs explained and introduced the “Think Different” marketing campaign that included the iconic “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” video ad. The rest is history and a three-trillion-dollar success.