Raghuveer Belur on battery safety
From The Energy Show: The Revolution in Home Battery & Solar Electronics - Enphase Interview Part 2 · · Sun Light & Power
“Battery safety matters more than ever as we deploy so many batteries — while some tests (like large-scale fire testing for 9540B) add cost and uncertainty, it's worthwhile for the industry to be very safe out of the gate.”
On , Raghuveer Belur, SVP, Co-founder & Chief Products Officer at Enphase Energy Inc, spoke about battery safety during The Energy Show: The Revolution in Home Battery & Solar Electronics - Enphase Interview Part 2 on Sun Light & Power.
About Raghuveer Belur
Raghuveer Belur, co-founder and chief products officer of Enphase Energy, delivered a keynote address on March 13, 2026. During the speech, he discussed time-of-use electricity pricing, citing examples such as San Diego residents paying 82 cents per kilowatt hour between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. He described batteries as a tool for homeowners to arbitrage rates by charging during the day and avoiding grid purchases during peak hours. Belur also noted that in some markets, utilities pay little or nothing for solar exports during midday due to an oversupply of electrons, while charging high rates for evening consumption. Belur stated that "the sooner the government's out of the energy business... the better it is for our industry." He also said that incentives such as investment tax credits or net energy metering "need to be a catalyst and not a crutch." He characterized the energy industry as "mission critical" and described solar as a "flexible resource" that can be curtailed for economic reasons in markets with high solar deployment.