NEP Microinverters Solution For Mingus Pointe Apartments

Mingus Pointe demonstrates how renewable energy can be integrated seamlessly into community living and delivers financial relief, and long-term resilience. A key challenge designing a PV array for Mingus Pointe is each apartment is individually metered, and Arizona regulations required a separate interconnection for each meter. This meant that even though the project is located at one site, it effectively became 36 separate solar systems. The installation itself required precision and ingenuity. Fire setbacks, roof loading, conduit pathways, and interconnection logistics were addressed through detailed planning, field verification, and creative problem-solving. Every challenge was met with a solution—whether it was adjusting conduit runs for accessibility, fine-tuning inverter placement, or reconfiguring tie-ins to balance loads safely. Monitoring so many small systems could have been cost-prohibitive. Solar Gain’s solution was to install 108 Wi-Fi-enabled Northern Electric Power (NEP) microinverters, which allow each unit to be monitored individually without the need for expensive gateways.