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National Solar, a Bend-based solar and battery installer with more than 17 years of experience in Oregon, today announced that the Enphase IQ Battery 10C is now enrolled in Pacific Power’s Wattsmart Battery Program. National Solar is the first installer to offer the program to its customers, giving Pacific Power homeowners a clear path to battery backup with a significant incentive attached.
Pacific Power customers who install an Enphase IQ Battery 10C are eligible for an incentive of $600 per kW, capped at $3,000 per household and paid directly to the homeowner after installation. A single IQ Battery 10C earns the full $3,000, plus annual bill credits of $100 in years two through four.
For homeowners, that means backup power for the house and a payment for helping keep the grid reliable. Wattsmart also stacks with Energy Trust of Oregon incentives, including enhanced incentives for income-qualified households. As an Energy Trust Trade Ally, National Solar captures the Energy Trust incentive on the homeowner’s behalf, so it reduces the cost of the system at the time of purchase, while the Wattsmart payment goes to the homeowner after installation.
For a typical Oregon home, a single IQ Battery 10C, roughly 10 kWh of storage, is enough to keep the essentials running through an outage: refrigeration, lighting, internet, medical devices and key outlets. Actual runtime depends on which loads are backed up, so National Solar sizes each system around the household’s priorities.
For larger homes above 2,500 square feet, or homes with electric heating or cooling, a well pump or an EV charger, National Solar generally recommends two IQ Battery 10C units, about 20 kWh, for longer runtime and more room for heavier loads. Because the Wattsmart incentive is capped at $3,000 per household, a second battery adds capacity but not additional incentive.
“Backup power has been out of reach for too many Oregon families because of the upfront cost,” said Janelle Lancaster, president of National Solar. “A $3,000 incentive on a single IQ Battery 10C changes that conversation. Paired with the bill credits in years two through four, it means more of our customers can add backup, protect their homes during outages, and see their solar investment pay back faster. Lowering the cost of resilience is how we bring backup to everyone we serve, not just a few.”
“The Enphase IQ Battery 10C is the best battery we install, and it is why we stayed with Enphase,” said John Harley, vice president of production at National Solar. “It uses lithium iron phosphate chemistry, it is modular so a home can start with one battery and add capacity later, and it runs on the same Enphase system and Enlighten monitoring as the solar. That means one platform, one app and one warranty story, with no mixed-brand compromises. It is the cleanest, most dependable storage system we have ever offered.”
National Solar designs its battery systems around Enphase so that the microinverters, batteries and monitoring are engineered to work together. That consistency makes systems easier to monitor, simpler to support and more predictable in performance over the life of the warranty.
National Solar has installed solar and storage in Oregon for more than 17 years and works only in Oregon. The company is licensed as both an Oregon electrical contractor and an Oregon construction contractor, so the people who design, install and service a system answer to Oregon codes and Oregon customers. The company runs all in-house crews.
National Solar backs its work with some of the longest coverage in the market:
- 15-year Enphase battery warranty on the IQ Battery 10C
- 15-year Solar Max Labor Warranty, so installation and service stay covered for the same term as the battery.
National Solar is an Energy Trust of Oregon Trade Ally and holds NABCEP certification. In 2026, REC, whose Alpha Pure panel is rated the #1 solar panel on EnergySage, named National Solar Installer of the Year in its Customer Excellence Awards, and Energy Trust of Oregon honored the company with its Gold Standard award. National Solar earned Energy Trust of Oregon’s highest ratings for verification, customer service and satisfaction in 2025, and was a Best of Bend Solar Service Company winner in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
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