How does a solar battery work?

Solar batteries offer a range of benefits when installed at a domestic property. Here, we have put together a short guide to offer you all the key information at your fingertips before choosing the right domestic solar battery storage option for your home, including the solar panel cost.

As solar panels have become more effective in generating energy for homes, and solar panel cost has come down, solar panels have become a more popular option. Adding even more benefit is the ability of a domestic solar battery to be able to store the surplus solar energy produced.

This allows homeowners to use stored energy that is generated during the day, to power a home at night. By adding a solar battery to your solar panels, you will have a larger initial outlay, but you can see much more benefit in reducing your energy bills and lowering your carbon footprint. 

What does a solar panel and battery system do?

Most people are familiar with solar panels, with a huge increase in the number of installations on UK homes over the past decade. Previously, the cost of solar panels may have seemed prohibitive, but these days solar panels cost less than they once did, and the advantages promise a real long-term cost saving.

The number of solar panels you install, dictates not only your solar panel cost but also how much of your home can be powered from solar or battery storage. Solar energy companies will look at your energy usage, lifestyle, location and other factors to suggest a system that fits best.

The solar panels will take in the sunlight and generate solar energy that you can use there and then. If you are using less electricity in your home than is being generated from solar, this is when the electricity is sent back to the grid.

However, when you accompany your solar with a battery, you have the option of storing that excess energy so that you can power your home with your own clean, self-generated, solar energy at the exact time you need it.

How do solar batteries work?

A solar battery is a unit that connects to your solar panels and can store excess solar energy that is generated during the day. At night, when the sun has gone down and the solar panels no longer generate energy, you can use the battery to power your home.

The battery provides homeowners with greater independence from the grid with regards to their energy consumption, and as a result, the energy bills associated with the house. The solar panel battery will provide your home with plenty of energy.

To help you meet your home’s exact energy profile, the solar provider can assess your home energy profile and recommend the ideal number of solar panels to go alongside your solar battery. 

By reducing how much energy you need to buy from the grid – due to being able to use the energy generated from solar panels stored in your Smart Battery – your solar panel cost and solar battery cost can be earned back through long-term savings.