Reduce your carbon footprintĪlthough we’ve made huge progress on the rollout of renewable energy infrastructure in Australia, the majority of the power generated on the grid is still from carbon intensive, fossil fuel sources. Solar and batteries effectively takes the majority of requirements and costs into your own hands. With the energy market closing due to soaring energy prices in mid 2022, for some Australians, we see a desire to increase their independence from the power network. With some battery models additional hardware is required to enable the battery to continue providing power during a blackout. Most solar batteries on the market are now capable of keeping the lights on during a power outage. Different areas of the electrical network are more prone to receiving blackouts that others. Keep the lights on during a blackoutīlackouts can be highly frustrating and in some cases a risk to health. There will still be a benefit as you always pay a much higher rate to buy power than the rate that retailers are willing to buy it back off you. For example if you charge a 10kWh battery during the day, that’s 10kWh less feed-in tariff that you will see on your bill.

When calculating your benefits, bear in mind that to charge a battery you have to forgo some solar feed in tariff revenue.

With a solar battery, this can be increased to 80%, 90% or potentially even 100% of household power consumption. A typical residential solar system without a battery will cover about 30%-50% of household power consumption. The obvious one is the financial benefit of reducing the amount of power that you need to buy off the grid. Saving on energy bills by reducing amount of power you buy from the grid There are several ways in which a homeowner can benefit from connecting a solar battery to their solar panel system.

Whole house solar battery backup