We're in a almost semi-rural area, sort of on the outskirts of Melbourne and there's quite a lot of trees around here. There is shading on some of the roofs different times of the year. It's quite a challenging roof, it's got quite a number of orientations, a steep pitch. We had to get the right balance of performance and balancing it with the shading, so anything other than micro-inverters wouldn't really work on this job. Basically each panel operates independently, so if there's some shading, which there will be, that's not going to bring down the performance of the entire system, so micro-inverters you can put on any roof angle. It's not like string inverter where you can have maximum of two inputs. This really wouldn't work with this roof. We've got cathedral ceilings, so many different orientations.
Micro-inverters really is the only solution on this one. This is actually a very complex job, but you've got panels on different orientations, we've got to get the wiring through cathedral roofs, we've got to deal with the steep pitch of course. So yeah, multiple issues on this job. And given that we had limited area to work with and quite a heavy electricity consumption to deal with, we had to maximise the yield out of the existing roof space, but it's going to deal with a large proportion of this customer's bills.
How did solar power micro-inverters help overcome the challenges with Doug's home?
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