Home Battery Storage

Upgrade your Solar Panels

Absolute Solar Retrofit for existing Solar Panel customers to upgrade their system to Solar and Battery Storage. Home battery storage is the next step in energy reduction for homeowners.

With over 1 million solar panel system now in operation throughout the UK, many home owners are benefiting from installing solar panels. Solar panels generate electricity when the sun shines, or at least there is good light conditions. The stronger the light intensity the more your panels will generate. Its’ not linear but close enough.

The challenge for many home owners is that what is generated is immediately used, or lost back to the energy network. This energy only generates a small payback against your bills. This results in many solar panel systems only supplying a limited amount of energy compared to what the house needs. This minimises the impact solar panels are having on household bills. That’s because energy generation is not matching energy need for the home.

Home Battery Storage

A home’s energy needs do not match solar panel energy generation. A home needs energy first thing in the morning, to heat water, heat the house, run electrical appliances from the kettle and toaster through to the shower. That morning routine is typically a 7am to 9am demand energy profile. But the sun is not really up and not making a real impact upon your solar panel system at those times. So the house needs to use mains or stored energy to fulfil that demand profile

The same is true in the evenings. The house needs heating, food needs cooking, lights need to be on as does the TV and other electrical devises. But the sun is not providing any or much energy to the solar panel system.

Impact of Energy Demand v Solar Panel Generation

The mismatch between solar panel energy generation is during the day. Increasing during the morning towards midday and down again in the afternoon, clearly contrasts with demand for most homeowners. That limits the full benefits of solar panel systems for a traditional family. This means that for a traditional households solar panels alone don’t make the biggest possible impact in reducing their utility bills. Many studies show that solar panel systems in these types of homes may deliver 30% saving on energy bills. That matters, but it is not getting the most out of your solar panel system.

Aligning demand v generation is the where you can maximise your solar energy generation. For homeowners there are changes they can make to optimise what appliances they use when. This does resolve the key issue in going green and reducing your carbon footprint, and your bills. The solution is to modernise your home starting with energy storage.

Energy Storage Using Home Battery Storage

Adding battery storage to your solar panel systems means that you do not loose the energy your home generated. Battery storage conserves 100% of the energy you generate and using integrated SMART software. SMART software will optimise its realise it back into your home as it needs it. Battery storage is the most effective way to save money on your energy bills. A typical home can easily half its bills just by adding battery storage.

Battery storage is small, clean, simple and effective. It is a clean way to store energy, and many domestic battery systems have integrated inverters to them. Upgrading not only your home’s energy systems, but also refreshing existing technology.

Tesla Powerwall 3

The Tesla Powerwall 3 which has just come onto the market is the most advanced home domestic energy storage system available in the UK today. The Tesla Powerwall 3 provides homeowners with home energy storage which aligns your energy generation with energy demand. Optimising your demand to available stored power.

It can even go further than that by recharging the battery at night using low-cost base load electricity. Do look at your energy supplier options to improve this. That recharging of your home battery means that when you need energy first thing in the morning rather than paying premium rate tariffs you can be using low-cost low-carbon energy to run your home. Battery storage changes the energy dynamic. Battery storage is the next step in home improvement for homeowners. It’s payback can be measured in a few years, depending upon how much energy use.

Home Energy Efficiency: Get the most out of solar and battery

Getting the most out of solar panels and battery storage always start by looking at your energy demand. Have you optimised your energy usage? To minimise your energy usage is the first step in reducing your bills. So ask yourself have you insulated your home, installed double glazing, to create a warm envelope within which to live? If your home leaks energy you will not get best savings from your solar panel system.

The next area to assess in your home is what is using the most electricity in your home. Old fashioned light bulbs, and energy inefficient machines, all eat energy far faster than ever the most efficient or largest solar panel system can generate. As do old fashioned energy consuming practices. Running everything all the time, from leaving lights on, to the TV running and personal devices just left on. These bad energy habits are hard to break but make a real difference to your home’s energy usage.

Become Energy Efficient

Big energy users also need to be revised. Heating a home uses a huge amount of energy, would a degree lower hurt, and wearing a jumper a real inconvenience in winter? Many heating systems are set too high. Often set too high throughout the house, even when some rooms, like the guest bedroom may not be in use very often. Other devices such as washing machines, tumble dryers and cookers all eat huge amounts of electricity. Can they be used smarter? Run less, when replaced replaced with a AA+ energy rating. Run washing machines at low price energy costs. Do we need to run the washing machine and tumble dryer almost empty? Or could we save energy by using them when we have a full load?

If you do all these things together then even a mostly insulated UK home can become up to 8 months grid neutral a year. But it takes more than just buying solar panels and battery storage but actually we change our behaviours to be energy smart. This becomes even more relevant if we add in EV charging, where behaviour shifts are inevitable. We must rethink our approach to energy usage with an EV car.

EV Cars and EV Charging

EV Charging is the latest technology to add to your home. Today EV cars are making up 25% of sales of new cars in the UK. A trend set to continue and accelerate. EV cars are a mobile battery which connects up to your home for recharging mostly at night for recharging. Battery storage can support EV charging as it manages the energy charging environment to maximise the energy your solar panel system generates to support your EV charging system.

Many EV Charging systems are rapid chargers, able to recharge your EV car quickly, in a few hours to 80% of its full charge. Using your own saved energy with low-cost overnight base load energy, you can recharge your EV car and in the evening. Using any spare energy in the EV car to recharge your battery at high peak early evening demand and then recharge your EV car during the night at lower cost.

Installing EV Chargers

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