What is a solar power inverter and how does it help monitor your solar power system?

A solar inverter serves as the central control unit of your solar system, converting the raw solar power generated by your PV panels into usable electricity for your home. Inverters are evolving to become more intelligent and versatile, encompassing features like smart home energy management, battery integration, and even electric vehicle charging capabilities.<p>

The monitoring of your solar system is crucial, and SolarEdge offers an innovative and comprehensive solar monitoring platform. This platform provides real-time data on both energy production and consumption, enabling you to maximize the value and efficiency of your system. Monitoring becomes the invaluable interface for customers, offering insights into their solar production, energy usage patterns, and guidance on optimizing appliance usage based on this data.

\- A solar inverter is the brain of your system. It's converting your PV power, your solar power into usable power for utilisation in the home. So you do need an inverter with a solar system, it's the basis that everything connects up into. Inverters are becoming much more intelligent. They're becoming bigger brain, if you like. They're getting into smart home energy, smart energy management, the ability to connect our batteries, and of course getting into even charging electric vehicles. 

The best way of monitoring a system is through a monitoring platform, and SolarEdge offer a very comprehensive, innovative, if you like, solar monitoring platform. And it provides live data of both production and consumption, and that is the essence of how to get the best value out of your system. Monitoring is probably one of the most important things. First is production, but monitoring is really the value. It's the interface for the customer, it's the feedback that you get from your system. So monitoring is absolutely important. So it's giving you visibility of how much solar you are actually producing or how much power you're producing from solar, how much you're using and when, and how to use different appliances based on that.