The assessment
How it scores, by category
Market position
The data
AC-coupled battery
Includes battery-side power conversion and connects on the household AC side.
- Product role
- The battery product includes its own conversion stage, while site isolation and backup controls may remain separate.
- Published range
- 5 kWh
- Phase
- Single phase
- Backup boundary
- Installation-specific
Usable capacity
100% of this battery’s nominal capacity is usable, 5 kWh in the scored configuration.5 kWh usableScored configuration: IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA.
No reserve is withheld at the stated depth of discharge.
At a sourced 100% depth of discharge the usable and nominal figures are the same number, so no separate nominal capacity is stated.
Usable capacity sourceDepth-of-discharge sourceCapacity guarantee: minimum retained at year 10
No year-by-year capacity schedule is published for this product - the manufacturer guarantees only this end-of-term minimum, not a specific decline curve. Capacity figure based on the sourced usable capacity of the base configuration; modular systems scale with additional modules.
Blackout protection
86 / 100#2 of 90 batteriesGrid-forming (black-start)
The blackout score is a standalone benchmark of outage resilience only - it re-weights sourced specs already scored in this product’s pillars (backup tier, switchover, surge strength, backup power, off-grid recharge) and never affects the overall score. Dots show the full battery fleet; the marker is this product.
Verification & sources
Market context
Global evidencechange in the site menu
Global benchmark. This scorecard is benchmarked globally. A global score does not imply local availability, certification, warranty coverage, or installer compatibility.
Benchmark anchor. Australian FlexPhase hardware is a separate regional identity. Scored model: IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA · checked 2026-08-08. Evidence.
Sources & references · checked 2026-09-01
Strong evidence coverage
29 of 29 scored criteria link directly to a published source.
Values marked estimated, derived, or not found remain visible on the audit sheet and do not carry the same evidential weight as a linked source. Coverage measures direct links, not an independent guarantee that a claim is correct.
Record revision. Exact IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA US datasheet, activation-date warranty, owner guidance and buyer-consequence boundaries reviewed 2026-08-07; regional identity split 2026-08-08. First-market DE overlay review 2026-09-01: official German catalogues recorded; existing Australian and United States overlays and scores unchanged.
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Product record history
5 changes to this record · 152 products changed in this update
DE Support Note
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The German Enphase storage store lists IQ Battery 5P FlexPhase. That page does not name IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA. FlexPhase is a different identity and is not transferred.
DE Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://enphase.com/de-de/store/storage; https://enphase.com/de-de/store/storage/iq-battery-5p-flexphase
Source revision
- Before
- Exact IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA US datasheet, activation-date warranty, owner guidance and buyer-consequence boundaries reviewed 2026-08-07; regional identity split 2026-08-08
- After
- Exact IQBATTERY-5P-1P-NA US datasheet, activation-date warranty, owner guidance and buyer-consequence boundaries reviewed 2026-08-07; regional identity split 2026-08-08. First-market DE overlay review 2026-09-01: official German catalogues recorded; existing Australian and United States overlays and scores unchanged.
21 changes to this record · 78 products changed in this update
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: the exact datasheet publishes 96% DC round-trip efficiency. Its separate 90% AC-to-battery-to-AC result is retained as contextual pathway evidence and is not mixed into the DC score.
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://enphase.com/en-gb/media/10007
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The 6,000-cycle term is a warranty limit, not a measured cycle-life result to 70% retained capacity.
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://enphase.com/en-gb/media/10007
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- supported
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- supported
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://enphase.com/download/iq-battery-5p-limited-warranty-en; https://enphase.com/warranty/us
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://enphase.com/download/iq-battery-5p-limited-warranty-en; https://enphase.com/warranty/us
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The exact datasheet publishes 90% AC-to-battery-to-AC round-trip efficiency at 50% rated power, 25 C and beginning of life.
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- supported
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: The 6,000-cycle term is a warranty limit, not a measured cycle-life result to 70% retained capacity. No cycles-to-70% value is substituted into the score.
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- reviewed_absence
This is review.solar's publication history. It does not claim the product changed on the recorded date, and it excludes compatibility, system pairing, installation suitability and relative leaderboard prose. Open the complete JSON record.
Evidence timeline
Recorded verification events for this scorecard. These are evidence checks, not historical score snapshots.
- Core scorecard evidence checked
- DE market evidence checked
- Series benchmark evidence checked
- US market evidence checked
- Plain-language warranty summary checked
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Our reading
The 76 belongs to the Premium Integrated seat, against a class average of 64.9. Sharing 76 with Battery-Box Premium HVS Stack in Performance & Value is not a joint overall champion. These are separate seats under the battery rubric. For the Premium Integrated homepage tile, this is the mark that sits. Capacity and usability is the strongest dimension on this card (96). What the card already shows is LFP chemistry, 96 per cent round-trip efficiency and 3.84 kW continuous output.
Dietreich Farquharson · review.solar