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| So we're optimistic that Sweden and Denmark represents a nice opportunity as well |
| We have made good progress on solving customer issues by focusing on both automation as well as expanding our field service teams globally |
| Also, we are seeing a good momentum in Europe |
| That gives us a best-in-class supply chain |
| So I think either way both parts will have similar gross margins in my mind, but they will all continuously improve as our cell packs get lower cost and our microinverters are manufactured in the U.S |
| California is, of course, the wild card, but we think that the -- even taking that into account, we expect to do -- we expect excellent numbers or our revenue numbers to go higher sequentially in June |
| So you get to have a very nice payback, which is six years -- six to seven years with solar plus batteries and software gives you good payback |
| So we are very encouraged that gross margins on batteries will continuously gone up for us |
| And I think that will reflect positively on overall gross margins |
| We have a very strong value proposition, vis-à-vis centralized our strong inverter topologies |
| If you look at, both in terms of ease of installation, commissioning, serviceability, et cetera, and with our three gets better, our four gets even better, including it's a very simple product to install |
| It should be a very high-quality product |
| And in microinverters, as you can see, even with those high prices, we -- our market share is very healthy |
| And our non-GAAP gross margin further increased to 47.1% with a net IRA benefit by manufacturing our microinverters in the U.S |
| It is superior for power production performance |
| In addition, we are innovating on GaN-based IQ9 and 10 microinverters, along with bidirectional EV chargers, our fourth and fifth generation IQ battery and AI-based energy management software to position us well for the long-term |
| But with intelligent energy management, with the addition of batteries and this can turn into a very quickly, it can turn into a very positive because every home will have solar plus a 10-kilowatt hour battery with energy management software and the payback is still fund between six and eight years |
| So it's an end-to-end solution that we are providing the homeowner, everything from design to installation, the ease of installation, serviceability and really good customer service, and that's what it's going to take for broad white scale adoption of battery, and you're seeing that happening |
| Our third-generation battery delivers the best power specs and commissioning times of any Enphase battery today at a 15-year industry-leading warranty |
| The battery adoption rates are on the rise globally and we are well positioned to grow our battery sales in 2024 |
| Also, we expect our margins on batteries to get better throughout 2024 |
| The better performance, much higher reliability, much simpler to design, install and maintain as well as safety around not having any high voltage DC in our system |
| However, the situation is still a net positive for us, because the 10% battery attach is now a 50% attached |
| That's why we set our sell-through numbers became higher by -- improved by 58% compared to the prior quarter |
| However, we remain very bullish about NEM 3.0 in the long-term |
| So we are doing quite well that our activations are increasing quarter-on-quarter |
| And so we think that's what you pointed out will be a net positive for us once we come out of this |
| Similarly, in some of the other markets, there is frequency regulation markets that you can participate in and provide good value to the homeowner because their battery is now basically generating money for you |
| So on battery demand, I'm happy to say, is very robust |
| We launched this product in North America in December and are seeing strong early adoption |
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| In the U.S., our revenue decreased 35% sequentially as we undershipped to the end customer demand |
| In Europe, our revenue decreased 70% sequentially as we under ship to the end customer demand |
| One is channel being full problem, channel inventory problem and the other is the native demand problem |
| Customers are fearing an export penalty for solar, and there is confusion about the ending of net metering |
| The overall sell-through of our microinverters and batteries in Europe was down 20% in Q4 compared to Q3 |
| The sell-through of our microinverters was down 27% in Q4 primarily due to the NEM 3.0 transition |
| In California, our overall sell-through was down by 7% in Q4 compared to Q3 |
| For example, in a dynamic tariff environment, you could have negative pricing |
| In Germany, our overall sell-through in Q4 was down 32% compared to Q3 |
| The sell-through of our microinverters was down 23%, and sell-through of batteries was down 2% in Q4 compared to Q3 |
| One particular challenge we hear is their lack of confidence in the payback of the systems they are selling |
| In Netherlands, our overall sell-through in Q4 was down 37% compared to Q3 |
| So that caused a lot of fear in customers |
| But with IRA benefit non-GAAP gross margin dropped by five points, 100% attributable to the IRA units |
| Specifically, we've been in a very tough competitive environment when it comes to fighting against string inverters or centralized topology |
| We expect the sell-through demand is going to be seasonally down approximately by 10% in Q1 |
| Germany, for us, has been hit by a lot of the inventory problems, destocking there |
| Essentially what happened is about three to four -- actually six months ago is what I would say, six months ago, the end consumer demand started to go down |
| The customers are facing -- they are certainly worried about an export penalty for solar |
| And the challenge for us, and that's a challenge to the team is to basically get the cost structure of the 427-watt product to actually be smaller than the product we are shipping today, which is IQ8 product |
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