Merlyn Power

05/26/2026

Spent a few great days Niagara ways upgrading Ken's solar arrays.

Hitting a must stop on way back. Good times!

04/09/2025

Which cell aesthetic do you prefer? The front are black, the back are blue. We prefer the backside!

Longi LR7-54HGBB bifacial.

01/28/2025

Ontario's home renovation savings program announced about a week ago. Actual details hit the pan today but with a disappointment . The $5000 towards solar is not for net metering, only for load displacement.

Basically this means you can't export excess energy and expect credits for it.

As designers this means we either size systems smaller so your output generally never exceeds your use during the day OR you have to have to buy energy storage as part of your system.

We'll put a blog post up about it later, still finding out some information. Stay tuned!

PS: the system picture below was generating 40 Watts at the time of the picture, which I think is pretty amazing!

11/28/2024

Getting them in before the snow comes. 20kW in Fergus.

04/09/2024

Hope everyone had a good eclipse day. Let's continue to look to the Sun for answers 🌞

03/09/2024

What would you call a power failure?

A current event.

03/07/2024

We've been waiting for this, haven't seen price reductions here yet but sounds like they're coming? (Not promoting TESLA by the way!)

From July 2023 through summer 2024, battery cell pricing is expected to plummet by more than 60% due to a surge in electric vehicle (EV) adoption and grid expansion in China and the United States.

05/20/2023

Solar technology sure has come a long way since 1908. We've come a long way since then.

Hats off to those pioneers.

02/03/2023

Logical and exciting development, their stationary batteries are still super expensive and do nothing for us here in Ontario most of the time. Why not use the multi purpose, much bigger, EV battery for those what if scenarios?

Enphase Energy (ENPH), the world’s leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, announced Thursday its latest innovation – a...

01/19/2023

Throwback Thursday. This one from 10/11 years ago was ambitious (owner wanted to MAX it out!!) but turned out well. I like the angled mods.