Enphase Energy, Inc. announced a new agreement with Home Connect, an open digital platform that allows home appliances of various brands to be managed with a single app. Home Connect is available for nine well-known home appliance brands including Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, Neff, and Thermador. As part of the agreement, Enphase® will integrate its home energy systems with the Home Connect platform, offering a smart, clean, and highly efficient way to power Home Connect enabled home appliances.

The vision is for Enphase and Home Connect to allow customers to easily configure Home Connect enabled home appliances to run during times of peak solar energy production, off-peak energy times, or when energy prices are lowest. Additionally, consumers would be able to set up the system to run appliances on solar energy saved in home batteries during pre-set time frames. By simply linking a Home Connect account, users could seamlessly use the Enphase® App to manage their Home Connect enabled appliances for optimal efficiency.

Enphase and Home Connect plan to offer the following capabilities: Customize preferred dishwasher or laundry settings, Customize appliance schedules to run based on time-of-day, electricity tariffs, or during peak solar production times, Program appliances to run once on any given day or repeat over several days. The new functionality will be available on the Enphase App in the United States and Germany starting with the integration of Home Connect enabled dishwashers. To start, users will be able to optimize their dishwashers around time-of-day energy savings.

New features and more appliances will be rolled out with the platform to more countries in the coming year. The integrated home energy and smart appliances platform will be demonstrated at Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2022, Europe's largest consumer electronics show, in Berlin, Germany from Sept. 2 – 6, 2022, at hall 1.1, booth 107.