12/9/2023 0 Comments Battery backup for home solar![]() ![]() If going solar means you can’t afford a battery right now, it’s better to go ahead and install solar panels now, because a battery can be added later. However, solar batteries can be very expensive and ramp up the price of your solar system by thousands of dollars. Solar batteries are quiet, require little maintenance, and can provide homeowners peace-of-mind knowing that they are independent from the grid and can rely 100% on the renewable energy they are generating. With a solar battery, your system will disconnect from the grid and the battery will start powering your home without an interruption. Without a battery in a power outage, you will also not have power just like your neighbors who are connected to the grid. ![]() This can be at night, during less-sunny periods of time, when your panels are covered in snow, or when there is a power outage. Batteries are considered solar energy storage because they store the excess power generated by the solar panels to be used later when energy use exceeds energy production. Because your system is not storing the excess energy for later use, there’s no way to power your home in those later moments without the help of the electrical grid. However, being connected to the grid can have its downsides. In many cases, when your panels produce extra energy, your utility company will even pay you for this excess energy through a program called net metering. A typical solar system is connected to the grid, meaning that when a home needs more energy than what the panels produced, it draws energy from the power grid, and when the panels produce more energy than was needed, the excess energy is sent back to the grid to be used by someone else.
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