The Storm Guard feature in the Enphase App tracks severe weather alerts and helps ready your IQ Batteries to provide backup power during potential weather-related grid outages. By default, Storm Guard is enabled for your Enphase Energy System.
Note: If you disable Storm Guard, your system will not monitor severe weather alerts to proactively charge your batteries for backup during potential outages. If a grid outage occurs and your battery charge is low, you may not be able to power your home. |
Storm Guard monitors severe weather alerts issued by the National Weather Service in the United States and the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. For the complete list of weather alerts detected by Storm Guard, refer to the tables at the end of this page.
How to enable or disable Storm Guard
Open the Enphase App on your mobile device and tap Menu > Settings > Profile. Tap Storm Guard and use the toggle to enable or disable the feature.
You can also choose to turn off Storm Guard for a specific alert without disabling the feature entirely by tapping the Opt Out button.
What happens when Storm Guard is enabled and a severe weather alert is issued?
When a severe weather alert is issued for your area, your system profile will be automatically set to Full Backup and Storm Alert: On will be displayed on the Status screen of the Enphase App. To maximize backup capacity, your batteries will discharge only if there is no grid power available.
Note: When Storm Guard is enabled, your batteries charge from solar power or the grid, in that order of priority, depending on which is available. |
Your system profile will return to its prior setting once the severe weather alert ends.
List of severe weather notifications detected by Storm Guard
Alerts issued by the National Weather Service in the United States:
Blizzard Warning | Coastal Flood Warning | Earthquake Warning |
Excessive Heat Warning | Flash Flood Warning | Flood Warning |
Gale Warning | Heat Advisory | High Wind Warning |
Hurricane Warning* | Ice Storm Warning | Lakeshore Flood Warning |
Nuclear Power Plant Warning | Typhoon Warning | Severe Thunderstorm Warning* |
Severe Thunderstorm Watch | Snow Squall Warning | Storm Surge Warning* |
Tornado Warning | Tropical Storm Warning* | Wind Advisory |
Wind Chill Advisory | Wind Chill Warning* | Winter Storm Warning* |
Winter Weather Advisory | Flood Watch | Tornado Watch |
Hurricane Watch | Tropical Storm Watch | Red Flag Warning |
*Alerts marked with an asterisk are critical weather alerts that have a high chance of causing grid outages. These will automatically activate Storm Guard, even if the feature had been previously disabled in the app. Storm Guard will remain active throughout the duration of the critical alert.
Alerts issued by the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia:
Avalanche | Blizzard | Cold |
Earthquake | Fire | Flood |
Hazmat | Hurricane | Storm |
Strong Wind | Tornado | Tsunami |
Typhoon | Volcano | Wind Chill |