One of the reasons I went with a microinverter system was so that I could add to the system in the future easily. I don't have to have the same wattage panels, because who knows, your electric cars are becoming more prominent. I actually thought about getting a battery or two at some point. Might not be worthwhile just yet, but certainly during those peak months where I'm producing good power and not using it, it'd be handy to have. And during summer, when you know, you can store some power in batteries and use it during the night, and not have to draw from the grid. So yeah, definitely, I think adding batteries at some point, and may be another row or two of panels if I need it.

Monitoring to me is important, and especially since I got the microinverter system, because the beauty of that is that on my app, I can see the production of each panel individually. And with the microinverter system, each panel is on its own inverter, so it's free to produce as much electricity regardless of what other panels are producing at. So sometimes in the morning, some of my panels on the far east side of the house will have a bit of shadowing from trees, but the ones next to them can still produce it at 400% capacity or as high as it can. That was a big factor. I like the fact that I can monitor it, it makes it easy to see if there is a problem. Like if one panel is not producing, it's easy to identify which panel it is. Whereas on a central inverter system, I believe that's not as easy to identify. And I guess the sort of plug and play aspect of the microinverter was really important to me too, because if I do want to add a few panels or a row at some point, I'm not limited by the exact same wattage of the panels that I've currently got each one's on it's own inverter.

So you can literally use any panel, so that was another important factor for me. Look, in the end, I think the additional money that it costs for me made sense. It's more future-proof as I said, it's easier to add to, and in terms of identifying if there's a problem with one panel, it's almost foolproof. So I'm glad I made the decision with the microinverters.