NABCEP 2026 drew the professional installers, energy managers, and project developers building the clean energy infrastructure of the next decade. Solara Power was there. Three days, hundreds of conversations, and one consistent signal from the floor:

Installers aren’t just asking about specs. They’re asking about trust.

Who do I call when something goes wrong on a job? How fast can you turn a warranty claim? Will your documentation hold up with my AHJ? Will you still be around in year ten of a fifteen-year warranty? These are relationship questions — and they point to a gap in how energy storage has been sold to the residential market.

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Local to serve local — what that actually means

A lot of the brands that followed the U.S. storage boom were built for volume, not for the installer relationship. Manufacture offshore, distribute through layers of middlemen, support through an international ticket queue that resets every time you call. For an installer whose reputation is on the line with every job, that’s a liability.

Solara Power was built around a different premise.

Our subsidiary and after-sales service center is in North Carolina — not a sales office, but a real operations and support hub staffed by people who understand U.S. permitting, NEC code, and the AHJ expectations that vary county to county. When an installer calls us, they reach someone in their time zone who can pull documentation, answer technical questions, and move on a warranty issue without an international handoff.

In a business where callbacks cost margin and warranty finger-pointing costs relationships — local accountability is the whole ballgame.

This isn’t a trade show positioning statement. It’s the reason we structured the company this way. The U.S. energy transition is a multi-decade project. The partners who will win it build trust job by job, permit set by permit set.

What we brought to Milwaukee

Our NABCEP presentation centered on UL-certified LiFePO₂ battery energy storage solutions purpose-built for the North American market. Here’s what drew the most attention from installers:

▪      LiFePO₂ chemistry — same electrochemical standard as the tier-one brands, with equivalent cycle life and safety characteristics

▪      UL certification — meeting the listing standard required for U.S. residential and commercial interconnection

▪      Integrated NEC compliance — RSD, AFCI, and GFCI built in, so permit sets are complete out of the box with no missing items

▪      IEEE 1547.1 certification — ready for grid interconnection documentation and formal AHJ review

▪      Broad inverter compatibility — Sol-Ark, Schneider, SMA, Growatt, Victron — installers keep working with what they already commission

▪      Low- and high-voltage architectures — covering residential solar + storage, C&I ESS, backup power, peak shaving, and intelligent energy management

▪      Advanced BMS — high safety standards, ultra-long cycle life, high energy efficiency, and intelligent remote monitoring

On the SKU side: stock the 12kW inverter and 10/14 kWh battery configurations, and you can quote 90% of residential jobs from two line items. For high-volume installers, that simplicity protects margin and accelerates throughput

      

The market we’re committed to

Residential solar-plus-storage attach rates are climbing. C&I and utility-scale demand is accelerating. AI infrastructure and data center growth is creating new baseline load that needs reliable, flexible backup. The IRA incentive structure has extended the investment horizon for American storage projects across the board.

But the market we’re most focused on isn’t defined by a segment or a capacity bracket. It’s defined by a type of installer: the professional who is building their business on the premise that energy storage is a long-term service commitment, not a one-time hardware sale.

 Those installers need a manufacturer who operates the same way — present in the U.S., responsive, thoroughly documented, and standing behind a 15-year warranty like it means something. That’s who we’re here to serve.

Next stop: The Battery Show South 2026

The conversations at NABCEP confirmed that the market is moving in our direction — toward local accountability, integrated compliance, and storage partners who pick up the phone. If you weren’t in Milwaukee, come find us at The Battery Show South 2026. The event dates are April 22-23, 2026, at The Charlotte Convention Center in NC. Booth # 2035.

We’d like to talk about your install volume, your market, and whether Solara Power is the right fit for your business.