IQ Energy Router

The greenest kilowatt-hour in the house

The cleanest energy you’ll ever use is the solar you don’t send away.

Most solar homes still export a good share of what they make — sold to the grid for a few cents, then bought back hours later at full price. Every one of those kilowatt-hours is clean energy leaving your home, only to be replaced by grid power that’s often anything but. The fix isn’t a bigger system. It’s a smarter one.

The Enphase IQ Energy Router is the quiet conductor that makes it happen. It watches your solar, your battery, and your home’s hungriest loads — hot water, the EV charger — and orchestrates them to run when your panels are producing surplus, or when grid power is at its cheapest and cleanest. Instead of exporting your midday sun and then heating water on expensive evening grid power, your home banks that sunshine as hot water and charged kilometres. Nothing green goes to waste.

This is where self-consumption stops being a number on a dashboard and becomes something you can feel. By soaking up surplus solar into the loads that already run every day, the Energy Router lifts how much of your own clean energy you actually use — usually the single biggest lever on both your bills and your carbon. You generate the same amount; you simply keep far more of it.

Here’s the part most home-energy marketing skips. The greenest kilowatt-hour isn’t the one you generate or the one you store — it’s the one you don’t waste. A small, low-power device that quietly redirects surplus solar into everyday use, year after year, does more for your footprint than almost anything with a bigger badge. That’s the Energy Router’s lifetime value: a multiplier on every panel and battery you already own, turning clean energy that would have slipped away into hot showers, full cars, and lower bills. The greenest kilowatt-hour is the one that never left home.

• Surplus solar, put to work — automatically runs your hot water and EV charging on excess solar rather than exporting it for cents.
• Smarter timing — shifts high-power loads into the cheapest, cleanest windows when solar isn’t covering them.
• More of your own energy — lifts self-consumption, the biggest single lever on both bills and carbon.
• One calm dashboard — see and steer the whole flow — solar, battery, hot water, car — from the Enphase App.
• Works with what you have — orchestrates your existing Enphase solar and battery alongside compatible EV chargers and water heaters.
• Small footprint, big effect — a low-power device that quietly multiplies the value of your entire system.
• Backed for the long run — covered by a 5-year limited warranty.