A team of ex-DJI battery engineers used Kickstarter as a factory floor, turned camping gear into home power, and built a billion-dollar clean-energy company one power outage at a time.
Enphase turned the least glamorous part of rooftop solar into a platform. Now its panel-level microinverters anchor a connected system for making, storing, using, and selling household power.
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