8/5/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Hello and welcome to the SolarEdge conference call for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. This call is being webcast live on the company's website at www.solaredge.com in the Investors section on the Events Calendar page. This call is the sole property and copyright of SolarEdge with all rights reserved and any recording. Good morning and thank you for joining us to discuss SolarEdge's operating results for the second quarter

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Erica Barron
Head of Investor Relations

June 30, 2026, as well as the company's outlook for the third quarter of 2026. With me today are Shuki Mir, Chief Executive Officer, Maoz Sigron, Chief Financial Officer, and Meir Adest, co-founder of SolarEdge. Shuki will begin with a brief review of the results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026. Moza will review the financial results for the second quarter followed by the company's outlook for the third quarter of 2026. We will then open the call for questions. Please note that this call will include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the safe harbor statements contained in our earnings press release and our filings with the SEC for a more complete description of such risks and uncertainties. We disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Please note, during this earnings call, we may refer to certain non-GAAP measures which are not measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP measures are being presented because we believe that they provide investors with the means of evaluating and understanding how the company's management evaluates the company's operating performance. Reconciliation of these measures can be found in our earnings press release and SEC filings. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation from, as substitutes for, or superior to financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Listeners who do not have a copy of the quarter-ended June 30, 2026 press release may obtain a copy by visiting the investor relations section of the company's website. With that, I will turn the call over to Shuki.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Erica. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our call today. On our last call, I discussed how 2026 would be a year of transformation and acceleration for the company, built around four main priorities. Driving profitable growth, expanding global market share, scaling the SolarEdge Nexus platform, and advancing our opportunity in power infrastructure for the AI factories of the future. This quarter, we saw tangible progress across each of these priorities, and I'm pleased to say that we reached an important milestone in our turnaround. Starting with our execution towards profitable growth. Since the beginning of 2025, We have grown our quarterly revenue year over year and have just delivered a strong second quarter. Revenue grew 20% year over year to $346 million. Once again, with no significant pull forward of revenue, a non-GAAP gross margin expanded for the sixth consecutive quarter. Combined with our continued expense discipline, we delivered non-GAAP operating profitability for the first time in nearly three years, An important milestone in our transformation and a reflection of the relentless focus our team has maintained on operational efficiency and customer centricity. Looking to the third quarter, we expect revenue to be in the range of $310 to $340 million. Most of the sequential decline is expected in Europe at approximately $15 million at the midpoint, mainly due to seasonality. At the same time, given the continued softness in the market, we do not expect the typical third quarter pickup in the U.S. Shifting to our second priority, market share gains. Our objective in 2026 has been to grow market share through product innovation, operational focus, and improved customer satisfaction. The U.S. resi market demand remained soft in the second quarter, As customers navigated a slower tax equity funding environment and continued uncertainty around Fioc. This environment has resulted in less funds available to start new projects and to pay for the completion of existing ones. It has put a strain on installers' businesses and cash flows and led to lower purchases from distributors who have also reduced the amount of inventory they carry. We expect this softness to continue in the third quarter As the market awaits further clarity and better funding environment. With that said, when the market rebounds, we believe we are well positioned to gain share. This is due to our fit with the PPO business model and the amount of safe harbor transactions closed ahead of the July 4th deadline. We will share more information about the safe harbor transactions in both Resi and CNI during our investor day on September 10th. In USCNI, We have seen strong momentum. Better execution across EPCs, small CNI customers, and enterprise accounts has helped increase our market share to more than 50% of U.S. CNI rooftop installations in the most recent report. In addition, solar systems now installed on rooftops of more than 60% of Fortune 100 companies. The outlook for this market remains positive, supported by rising electricity prices and data center driven demand. We have been the only major CNI inverter vendor to deliver U.S. manufactured products at scale designed to meet domestic content, non-FEOC, and FCC covered list requirements. Together with the safe harbor agreements we have secured, we believe that we can gain further share in the coming years. In Europe, We more than doubled our revenue year-over-year as demand for solar grew in anticipation of higher electricity prices and demand for storage increased in anticipation of the phase-out of net metering across several major markets. We believe the excitement around Nexus, along with the orders we have received in recent months, are positive indicators of our ability to gain share in the DACH region in the coming quarters. We expect a similar momentum across Europe with the planned rollout of the single-phase nexus in Q1 2027. In addition, in recent quarters we have launched retrofit campaigns in the Netherlands and the DACH region, where our combined installed base is greater than 1 million homes. In Q2, we generated more than $20 million in upsell activities, and we expect this opportunity to continue growing. Turning to our third priority, scaling the Nexus platform. At InterSolar in Germany this June, the highlight for us was the fantastic feedback we received from installers about Nexus. As discussed in previous calls, the platform was designed from the ground up to be a leading PV and storage solution in an environment where the grid is congested and utilities introduce dynamic tariffs. and independent renewable energy engineering consultant benchmarked Nexus against the leading competitor in Europe from the homeowner's perspective. The analysis shows that Nexus is expected to deliver €5,000 in additional savings over 15 years, driven by superior round-trip efficiency across all power levels and higher PV production. In the second quarter, we began to meaningfully roll out the three-phase version of Nexus in Europe, with shipments exceeding $60 million. In the U.S., initial feedback from installers and TPOs has been very positive, and we expect Nexus installations to grow as we begin to roll out in volume. Nexus has been approved on a growing list of U.S. financing platforms, spanning TPO, prepaid PPA, and loan products, giving installers and homeowners more ways to access SolarEdge Nexus regardless of how they choose to finance. Turning to our fourth priority in the AI factory market, where we believe there is a substantial long-term opportunity. In the second quarter, our data center business shifted from development to demonstration as we continued to advance our solution and to engage with prospects and the ecosystem. Prospective customers, which importantly included their technical and engineering teams, had the opportunity to see live demonstrations of our SST in our lab. These demonstrations validated several critical elements of the system, including 99% efficiency across a range of power levels, direct conversion for medium voltage AC to a regulated DC bus, and encouraging insulation results. In a number of RFIs we have responded to, efficiency is a key area of focus. Efficiency directly translates into greater compute capacity within a fixed power envelope. And this additional compute leads to higher revenue, lower cost per token, and improved return on investment for the data center. Our technical progress and customer evaluations and feedback have increased our confidence in both the size of this opportunity and the strength of our position. We believe SolarEdge is developing a highly differentiated solution that addresses the growing need for greater power efficiency and increased compute capacity within data centers. We remain focused on our next planned milestones, getting to a working system in our lab by the end of this year, followed by pilot installations in 2027 and volume shipments in 2028. To summarize, the second quarter marked a meaningful point in our turnaround. We returned to non-gap operating profitability and made progress in all four priorities. While we are pleased with this progress, our team continues to focus on maintaining the operating and financial discipline, driving profitable growth, gaining share in our core markets, scaling up the Nexus platform, and advancing our FST to capture the AI factory opportunity. Lastly, I would like to welcome our new CFO, Maoz. His experience across finance, operations, capital markets, and organizational transformation is highly relevant as we continue our journey from turnaround to profitable growth. I am confident that his leadership, together with the strength of our finance organization, will serve us well as we enter this next phase. With that, I will end it over to Maoz.

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Maoz Sigron
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Shuki, and good morning, everyone. I am very pleased to join SolarEdge and to speak with you today on my first earnings call as CFO of the company. I am excited about the opportunities ahead in residential and C&I, as well as the vast emerging opportunity in AI factories. I have spent time with teams across the organization and have been impressed by the extent of the company's technology, the quality of its people, and the operational discipline that has been established. My immediate priorities are continuity and execution, including, first, supporting profitable growth of our core business by ensuring our investment in Nexus and in our offering in the AI factory market are aligned with clear milestones and returns. Second, focusing on operational excellence by driving cost discipline and cost structure while strengthening execution rigor across manufacturing and the supply chain. Managing cash by prioritizing free cash flow generation, maintaining a strong balance sheet and liquidity position. Starting with our quarterly results. Gap revenue for the second quarter was $346.2 million, up 11.5% quarter-over-quarter and 19.6% year-over-year. Non-gap revenue was $345.5 million, Up 11.5% quarter-over-quarter and 23% year-over-year, above the midpoint of our guidance range. This result does not include any significant pull-forward of revenue from safe hours. Gap revenue from the U.S. amounted to $154.9 million, down 2% quarter-over-quarter and representing 44.7% of our revenues. Revenue from Europe was 154.4 million, up 36% quarter over quarter, representing 44.6% of our revenue. International market revenue was 36.9 million, down 5% quarter over quarter, representing 10.7% of our revenue. Get gross margin was 27.5% this quarter, compared to 22% in the first quarter, and 11.1% in the second quarter of last year. Non-GAAP gross margin was 28.6% this quarter, compared to 23.5% in the first quarter and 13.1% in the second quarter of last year, above the high end of our guidance range. These results include a gross benefit of $13.3 million related to IPA tariff refunds. The improvement was driven by continued cost discipline, favorable product mix, the EPO refunds, and the improved operational leverage as fixed costs were absorbed over higher volumes. GAP operating expenses for the second quarter were $111.2 million compared to $123.3 million in the first quarter and $147.6 million in the second quarter of last year. Non-GAAP operating expenses for the second quarter were $88.5 million, the exact midpoint of our guidance range, compared to $97.7 million in the first quarter and $85.2 million in the second quarter of last year. Despite the continued headwinds we faced from a central new Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar, we are maintaining our ongoing cost control and leveraging efficiency measures to ensure profitable growth. Gap operating losses for the second quarter were 16 million compared to gap operating losses of 55 million in the first quarter and 115.5 million in the second quarter of last year. Non-gap operating income for the second quarter was 10.2 million compared to non-gap operating losses of 24.8 million in the first quarter and 48.3 million in the second quarter of last year. Our gap net loss was 30.8 million in the second quarter compared to gap net losses of 57.4 million in the first quarter and gap net losses of 124.7 million in the second quarter of last year. Our non-gap net income was 3.6 million in the second quarter compared to a non-gap net loss of 26.3 million in the first quarter and non-gap net loss of 47.7 million in the second quarter of last year. Positive for the first time since the second quarter of 2023. Gap net loss per share was 50 cents in the second quarter, compared to a loss of 95 cents in the first quarter and a loss of 213 cents in the second quarter of last year. Non-gap net profit per diluted share was 5 cents in the second quarter, compared to a loss of 43 cents in the first quarter, and the loss of $0.81 in the second quarter of last year. Turning now to our balance sheet. As of June 30, 2026, cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $601.6 million, up from $581.1 million as of December 31, 2025. During the second quarter, we generated $3.1 million of free cash flow, compared to $20.7 million in the first quarter. and the negative free cash flow of 9.1 million in the second quarter of last year. Our capital expenditure in the first half was 12 million. For the full year 2026, we continue to expect capital expenditure within the range of 60 to 80 million, with our principal investment areas remaining. First, increased production capacity in the U.S. for both PV and batteries. Second, investment in our new airports in Israel, Largely related to advanced R&D facilities. Third, investment related to our AI factory offering. And lastly, ongoing maintenance topics. We continue to expect positive free cash flow for the full year, reflecting our improving operating performance, continued discipline in managing expenses and capital investments, and our ongoing ability to monetize 45x credit. Turning to our working capital items. Our rigorous focus on cash management continued to yield positive results. In the second quarter, the net AR decreased once again, driven by strong collection. Combined with lower DSO and higher DPO, our conversion cycle continued to improve. Turning now to our guidance for the third quarter of 2026. We expect revenue to be within the range of $310 million to $340 million. This range does not include any significant pull forward of revenue. We expect a non-GAAP gross margin of approximately 22% to 26%. This range does not include any impact from potential EPA refunds. We expect non-GAAP operating expenses of approximately 86 million to 91 million, in line with our second quarter run rate of 88.5 million. and reflecting continued discipline in our core operations and planned investment in Nexus and AIR Factory SST. Including the 11.5 million of IPA refunds we have already received in July, the midpoint of our guidance imply a non-gap operating profit in the third quarter. We believe the combination of our operational discipline, market share gains and introduction of new innovative products including Nexus will continue to derive profitable growth in the years ahead. I will now turn the call over to the operator to open it up for questions. Operator?

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. At this time, if you wish to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. You may remove yourself from the queue by pressing star 2. In the interest of time, we ask that you please limit to one question and one follow-up. We'll take our first question from Christine Cho with Barclays. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

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Christine Cho
Analyst, Barclays

Good morning. Thank you for taking the question. I wanted to start off with, so I understand you kind of gave some reasons for the top-line sequential decline. Can we talk about what's driving the decline? Lower sequential gross margins, you know, if that's mostly driven by U.S., Europe, just any color on that as well.

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Maoz Sigron
Chief Financial Officer

So thank you for the question. Yes, the gross margin for Q3 we expected 24%. The main reason for that is the scale of the business that is different in Q3 and very much aligned with our fixed cost that we have in the cost of goods. And this is actually the main reason. If you take this out, you actually can see a small improvement quarter over quarter.

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Christine Cho
Analyst, Barclays

Okay. And then in the prepared remarks, you mentioned that with the current backdrop in the U.S., distributors are coming down on inventory. Do you have a sense of how many weeks they have on hand currently and how that compares to how much they typically like to carry? and I know you mentioned that you don't expect to see 3Q pick up in the US but should we think that there's enough inventory in the channel that they can continue to come down in 4Q and so it's possible that there's a sequential decline in 4Q as well and how much of this is also being driven by people wanting to destock ahead of you know purchasing Nexus?

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Yes, so thank you Christine, how are you? For the channel inventory As we said, due to the softness in the market, everybody is becoming a little bit more cautious and a little bit more careful. Our channel inventory, to the best of our knowledge, is normalized. It's moving between products and between distributors, both in Europe and the U.S., but overall it's normalized. And we don't have a reason to believe that something is going to be materially different going into the quarter. We did mention that because in conversations with distributors and channel partners, they are stating that they are trying to be careful about how much inventory they bring because it's not yet clear to everybody when the clarity around the Fioc definition is going to happen.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. We will move next with Brian Lee with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

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Brian Lee
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Hey, thanks for taking the questions. Maybe just to kind of piggyback off of Christine's questions, how much, well, for the 3Q guide, can you kind of walk us through the pieces? It sounds like, you know, you're calling out some European seasonality, some softness in the resi market for the U.S., and I'm curious kind of what your view is embedded for storage volumes in the 3Q and then how much of this sort of persists into 4Q? Can you maybe, I know you don't want to give guidance, but kind of the setup for European seasonality and the channel as well as U.S. residue and storage into your end?

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Yes, thank you, Brian. So what we have is There are two or three factors that are in play here, and some of them are going in one direction and others on the other one. If you think about seasonality, then usually the fourth quarter, and we're not guiding for fourth quarter right now, usually fourth quarter is seasonally lower than Q3. However, going into the third quarter, what we said was that we expect Europe to go down in the midpoint, to go down by $15 million, mainly due to seasonality. And it's a combination of PV and storage. And in the U.S., softness in the resi, we expect it to continue. And again, it's both resi, it's both PV and storage. One thing that people may want to pay attention to is the growth of storage in the revenue, both in Q2 and we expect that to... Over time, without any particular quota, any particular quota can be up or down a little bit, but overall the industry is moving into higher attach rates of storage. We've seen it in the U.S., we've seen it in Germany, we've seen it in other places, and the retrofit activities in anticipation of the phase-out of feed-in tariffs is also a main driver for storage when in a retrofit installation it's mostly storage. All in all, we are expecting storage to become a bigger piece of our business. So that's the second piece. The third piece is you asked about what will happen in future quarters. As we said, it ties into clarity around the field definition and the ability of the financing companies to secure investments that then will actually allow additional money to flow into the market, into installers and When that happens, we will see that the market rebounds. And when the market rebounds, we feel that we are very well positioned to benefit from that. Our engagement with the TPO, the Safe Harbors that we've signed, and the Nexus, with all of its advantages, we will be positioned as well to benefit from that.

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Brian Lee
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Helpful. I appreciate that. And then maybe just a second question. I know you've been clear for the past several quarters, including on this call, that there's no significant pull forward revenue, no safe harbor. I'm just curious on that dynamic because I know your peer has seen a significant amount of safe harbor. Over the course of the entirety of 2026. So can you kind of walk us through what's the difference between your go-to-market or your safe harbor strategy or maybe customers as to why that's happening? And then also maybe kind of in relation to that, any thoughts on the Recent FCC foreign inverter ban, how does SolarEdge kind of fit into that and do you need waivers and what sort of the potential implications that you think you have to contemplate? Thank you.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Brian. It was a little bit more than one question, so if I forget something, please remind me. When you refer to our peer and what they've done, you should definitely ask them, but in our conversations with our customers, with our partners, Both on the CNI side and the Resi side, their strong preference is obviously to go with the physical work test. The physical work test allows them to align their purchases with their demand, basically. So when they need the equipment, they are pulling it or they are buying it from us. That will align our revenue with their purchases, with their installations, and it's a healthier flow of the channel, if you will. Because of that, and due to the fact that many of them have seen Nexus, believe in the value that it brings to the table, and they understand very well that even in three or four years from now, it will still be a leading product in the market. Because of all of these reasons, they felt comfortable Going with the physical work test, Safe Harbor deals with that. We've signed, as I mentioned, both on CNI side and the Redis side, a significant amount of Safe Harbor transactions. And we will elaborate on that and share more information during investor day. As it pertains to the FCC ruling, so as you know, SolarEdge is a Delaware company. We're listed in NASDAQ. The majority of our manufacturing is done in the U.S., in Utah, in Florida, and in Texas. To the best of our understanding, the FTC covered list is something that we comply with and we plan to continue being in compliance with. So from that perspective, it's a step in the right direction maybe for the safety of the energy market in the U.S., But SolarEdge being an American company is definitely part of that, and we see no reason that we won't be in compliance with it.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Philip Shen with Roth Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

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Philip Shen
Analyst, Roth Capital Partners

Thanks all for taking the questions. I have a follow-up on Brian's question about the FCC inverter action. And so they talked about exemptions, I think. Well, actually, we wrote about potential for exemptions coming. I don't know if they talked about it. But the point here is that we see potential for the FCC near term to issue exemptions and approve exemptions. But it still might take a few weeks. And so I was wondering, like, let's say this takes three weeks. Like, have you guys already applied? For Nexus, for example, to be exempted. And if not, do you think that this could, like this process could delay the rollout of Nexus in the U.S.? And then ultimately, this is, you know, I think a tailwind more for your CNI business, as there's not much Chinese inverter penetration in the resi business. I just want to confirm that you see If there is a tailwind for you guys, that's more of a CNI tailwind as opposed to REZI. And if you could quantify what you think that tailwind would be, that would be great as well.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Thanks. Thank you, Phil. And let me take the first thing out of the way. I don't know where it's coming from. I'd like to be very, very clear. Nexus is made in the U.S. by a U.S. company. There is no need or reason to ask for exemptions. It's part of the SEC list period. And I don't know where that comes from, but it's not true. So it's not going to delay the Nexus rollout in any way, shape, or form. And as we said, we are actually starting to roll out Nexus in the U.S. as well in the third quarter. It's already been approved by many financing companies, and we expect Nexus to gain traction This quarter and in future quarters. As for the CNI opportunity due to the FCC covered list, so it's not yet clear, as you said, it's not yet clear when it is going to impact companies that are not going to be approved for their new product. It's not yet clear whether their existing products can actually continue to be imported into the U.S. or not, and when, if at all, it will stop. We have actually, in the last report, we've actually gained share in the CNI market to the point of 50% of the rooftop CNI installations in that quarter. And the reason for that was the superiority of our technology as well as the FIOC and domestic content compliance. And as you know, and you know it very well, Phil, there have been three leaders in the CNI market, SMA, Chint, and SolarEdge. The other two, to the best of our knowledge, are not complying with both. And because of that, we've seen a good traction towards SolarEdge, and that traction, if at all, should continue with the FCC ruling, actually.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Colin Roche with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

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Colin Roche
Analyst, Oppenheimer & Co.

Thanks so much, guys. Can you talk a little bit about the trend lines on storage pricing? It looks like you're seeing a little bit of improvement on that and just want to get a sense of whether that's mix-related or if you're actually monetizing a little bit more effectively in the market.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, thank you, Colin. So storage pricing... As always, it's a combination of three different products that we are selling at the moment on the storage side. One is the CNI storage in Europe, which has a higher power density. The other ones are the single phase and the three phase residential storage. Each one of them is slightly different and it depends on the market. Overall, our storage prices have remained stable per product. What you're seeing, the differences that you're seeing quarter to quarter are mainly due to product mix, I would say. But as I mentioned earlier, we definitely are seeing a growing demand for storage products in general in the market and for our own storage products specifically. The CNI storage in Europe continues to improve. and with Nexus that was designed from the ground up to be a PV plus storage solution, we believe that we are going to continue benefiting from that trend.

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Colin Roche
Analyst, Oppenheimer & Co.

Great. And then on the supply chain side, you know, I want to get a sense of any sort of shifts that you're seeing in terms of component availability, pricing, inflationary pressures that we should be thinking about as we get into the back half of 2026.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Yes. So component availability Suppliers have always said that shortages are coming. As you know, data center demand is actually creating some strain on some of the components, memory in particular. Our supply chain team has worked diligently in order to secure supply. In some cases, like memory, we have to actually absorb some of the price increases, but these are, at the grand scheme of things, these are not something that is significant. We are working together with our partners to secure supply and to make sure that we are able to support our customers to the best of our ability.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. And once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. We will move next with Corinne Blanchard with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

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Corinne Blanchard
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my question. Maybe shifting gears a little bit here, but can you talk about the SST? And I know you have talked previously about the timeline and Trying to get more like a proof of concept by the end of this year and then pilot program in a bit in 2027. But can you just maybe tell us what we should be expecting in the next six months for that one?

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Meir Adest
Co-founder

Okay, so thank you for the question. I think the first thing to start with is the fact that we spent the last couple of weeks demonstrating A working prototype of the SSD to prospective customers. And really, it was interesting to see the difference between slideshows and presentations and having them see an actual working model going from medium voltage to 800 volt DC regulated. So I think that alleviates from their perspective a lot of the concerns they had about the maturity of the product. Where we're going from here is we're going to spend the next few months until the end of the year to get the proof of contact prototype fully working at the full three-phase 34.5 kilovolt voltage. And then 2026, will be pilots at the data centers. Sorry, 2027 will be pilots at the data centers so that we could have meaningful revenue in 2028.

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Corinne Blanchard
Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Thank you. To you, just to rebound on quantifying revenues, when do you expect to be in a position to share maybe like You know, like a ballpark of expectation in which you can contribute to the portfolio.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, so as we've said, it's a transition that the industry is going through, right? And, you know, with NVIDIA actually sharing with the entire ecosystem their roadmap for GPUs that will require 800 volts, that will be step one. The second step is whether People are going to use Sidecar or other inefficient solutions or when they will transition into SSTs. And we expect revenue to start in 2028. During our investor day on September 10th, we are actually going to share more information about how we think about the opportunity and evolution of revenue in that part of the business.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. We will move next with Mahib Mandloy with Mizuho. Please go ahead.

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Mahib Mandloy
Analyst, Mizuho Securities

Mahib Mandloy Thanks for taking the questions. Maybe just on Q4, I'm not looking for guidance there, but just in terms of seasonality, anything which would be different or similar to what we've seen historically here?

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Mahib Mandloy Yeah, so as you know, we don't guide beyond the current quarter. When we talk about Q4, I think that, as I mentioned earlier, on one hand we are seeing the improvement on the storage side. More and more in the Netherlands, for example, people are in anticipation of the elimination of net metering. More and more people would like to upgrade their existing systems into storage. So one can expect that maybe there will be some upside coming from there. Usually, from seasonality, there is a decline in the market between Q3 and Q4. And in our case, actually, we are going to see the ramp up of nexus. So between these three moving parts, we are not providing guidance at this stage. And we'll share with you, obviously, everything as we come closer to Q4.

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Mahib Mandloy
Analyst, Mizuho Securities

I appreciate that. And just maybe a follow-up on Europe. I'm hearing about potential inverted bands on the Chinese players over there. What have you heard on that? What are customers talking about that to people over there?

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

There is one directive that was already issued in Europe that for projects that are funded by the European Bank, they cannot use Unauthorized Inverters. And that has been the case so far. The only thing that has been actually out and being official, this, as we said in the past, is mainly applicable for utility and maybe some CNI business opportunity for us. For other segments of the market, namely the CNI and the residential market, There is some sentiment that maybe there will be a ban, but we don't want to speculate about if and when.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. And at this time, there are no further questions in queue. I will now turn the meeting back to Shuki Nir for closing comments.

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Shuki Mir
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you everyone for joining us for today's call. I'd like to thank the SolarEdge team for working really, really hard and after almost three years moving back to profitability. And thank you all.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you. This brings us to the end of today's meeting. We appreciate your time and participation. You may now disconnect.

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