Finally, a solution for that unused solar power.
The home is the center of family life but many people aren’t aware of the options they have to control how it's powered. At times we may forget to take the necessary steps to ensure that our home is prepared for a crisis—that’s where batteries come in to help. Below you’ll find information on how home solar batteries can deliver peace of mind by ensuring that energy will be there, whenever you need it most.
Home solar batteries are quickly emerging as one of the best options for emergency home energy backup. With solar power batteries comes the ability to keep the lights on when we need them most, tap into solar power at night, and take greater control over home power.
How solar power batteries work
A solar power battery saves excess solar energy from your panels and uses it to power your home when you need it most—like during an outage or when the sun goes down.
A solar home battery is exactly what it sounds like—a battery, for your home, that stores power from your solar energy system. During the day, solar panel batteries store excess energy from your solar panels and allow you to tap into that stored energy so you can access power when you need it most, like during a power outage.
Your system produces energy when the sun is shining.
Your battery stores any excess clean energy not used by your home.
Your home pulls power from your storage when needed.
A lot of solar panel batteries have capacities around 10kWh so (depending on your specific configurations) this allows enough stored energy to power up to four circuits in your home, the most common of which are your fridge, kitchen, bathroom, and heater. For larger homes, or if you want to power more than four circuits, it is sometimes possible to upgrade to additional battery storage.
The time it takes the four circuits to consume all the energy in your solar home battery varies based on things like battery type, age, capacity, appliance size, etc. Most solar panel batteries should keep your essentials running for at least a few hours, but it is possible that your battery could maintain enough charge to keep your essentials running for days at a time.
That’s because your panels continue to charge your battery during the day, so it’s possible that they could produce enough energy each new day for your battery to never fully deplete overnight. Then the battery will begin to recharge as soon as sunlight hits panels the next morning.