Things You Must Know If You’re Considering Home Battery Storage

by Austin Baines Content Writer

Solar panels have made lives easy for homeowners as well as business owners by lessening the electricity prices using a natural resource, the sun. After solar panels, the most discussed thing in Australia in the past few years is Home Battery Storage. However, if you’re considering it for your home or workplace, there are certain things you must be aware of to get to know about the pros and cons of it. Some of them are given below:

• Suitable Time to Think of Home Solar Battery Storage

Most people think of Home Solar Battery Storage at first but don’t take a look at the capital cost and other such factors. This technology is a bit different and expensive as compared to solar panels because the addition of batteries makes it unaffordable for most people. So, start thinking about it when your budget is good enough.

• No Need to go Off-Grid

If solar panels are installed in your home along with the batteries, that doesn’t mean you are off-grid and can’t take electricity from there. You can keep exporting the additional electricity (produced by the panels) to the grid or you can import the electricity from the grid too if the electricity demand is high.

• Effect of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Lead Batteries

Lithium batteries are now used extensively for household electrical appliances because they work effectively in-home battery storage. However, if you’re off-grid, you may go for lead batteries which have proved to be the only alternative to lithium batteries as of now due to their specifications.

• Actual Difference between Usable and Nominal Capacity 

The ultimate goal of a battery is to store energy. Some batteries keep a part of the energy stored in them and don’t discharge it until they are damaged. The usable part of the energy is called usable capacity while the amount of energy stored and is of no use is called nominal capacity.

• To What Extent Does a Battery Degrade?

With the passage of time and with continuous usage, the lifetime of a battery gets reduced. Its ability to store the charge decreases as a result of which it starts to degrade. If a battery’s warranty is 10 years, its performance will be 60% of its initial performance by the end of 10 years.

• Other Benefits of Batteries 

Apart from charging the battery with solar energy, there are many other benefits of batteries as well including:

1. Selling the stored energy to the national grid just when the demand becomes high
2. Provides you with electricity even when there is nothing in the grid.
3. You can use the electricity at any time of the day.

Few states of Australia have planned to introduce power plants that would run with solar energy in order to keep other natural resources such as coal or natural gas away from harming the environment.

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