What happens when someone has spent more than two decades watching solar evolve from remote off-grid systems and lead acid batteries to microinverters, AI, battery storage and panel-level monitoring?

In this episode, we sit down with Duncan McGregor from Enphase, one of the Australian solar industry's true long-term operators.

Duncan takes us back to the early days of Going Solar, the legendary renewable energy training courses, flooded lead acid batteries, early grid-connect systems and the people who helped shape the Australian solar industry.

We then move into modern solar, including microinverters, DC optimisers, commercial applications, panel-level monitoring, battery storage, grid-forming technology, AI energy management and what the next phase of distributed energy could look like.

What we cover:

✅ Growing up in New Zealand and discovering renewables
✅ Sailing, windsurfing and the idea of energy independence
✅ The early days of Going Solar
✅ What solar training looked like 20 years ago
✅ How panels, batteries and inverters have evolved
✅ Microinverters vs DC optimisers
✅ Why panel-level monitoring changes fault finding
✅ Commercial solar and large microinverter systems
✅ Voltage rise and AC cabling considerations
✅ How Enphase batteries use microinverter technology
✅ Grid-forming capability and backup power
✅ AI, hot water control and home energy management
✅ Battery storage and the future C&I opportunity
✅ Why installer education still matters