The Importance of Solar Storage Batteries for Solar Systems

Solar storage batteries are a crucial component of solar power. When your solar panels are not producing enough energy, the battery stores the energy for you to use when needed.

A solar storage battery is a special type of battery that stores the electricity generated by solar panels or wind turbines. The electricity is stored until it’s needed, when it can be used to power your home. The electricity is generated at night and on cloudy days when there isn’t sufficient sunlight or wind to generate power.

Solar batteries give you the following advantages.

Reuse Energy Later

Reusable energy is a crucial role for batteries. Solar energy is abundant during daytime, but without storage, you lose all of them once the sun goes down. Excellent batteries give you reusable energy that can power your home for hours after sunlight.

Cutting Edge Technology

The battery’s unique chemistry offers a higher energy density (longer run time), lighter weight, and greater power capacity than its predecessors.

Lithium Ion batteries are able to store more power than other types of batteries, and they are lighter in weight than other types of batteries. Plus, lithium Ion batteries can also be recharged more times than other types of batteries. Thus, they’re the latest and best cutting edge technology for solar panels today.

Avoid Circuit Overloading

Solar batteries are essential for preventing circuit overloads in solar energy systems. On the other hand, a cloudy day will cause the circuit to discharge faster than normal. This situation can cause overloading and potential fires in the home if not properly managed. Most circuits are protected from overloads by a fuse or circuit breaker that disconnects power while storing excess energy in batteries.

Unfortunately, solar energy batteries are still highly expensive. Here are the reasons it is quite so, according to Solar.com

Solar Battery Price Factor 1: Capacity

The biggest factor that impacts the price of a solar battery is its capacity – the total amount of energy that it can store. Typically home batteries can store between 10 and 20kWh of electricity. How long a solar battery lasts in an outage depends on a range of factors – including how much power the home is drawing from it, what size solar system is connected to it, etc. – but at a basic level, the more battery capacity you have, the longer you’ll have power in an outage.

Solar Battery Price Factor 2: DC vs AC

For a deeper dive into DC vs AC batteries, please check out this article. 

In short, DC batteries like LG Chem tend to be less expensive than AC batteries, since they’re less complex. However, DC batteries are also less flexible than AC batteries, and depending on the solar equipment the battery is paired with, a DC battery may not be an option at all. AC batteries including Tesla Powerwall, meanwhile, can be used with any solar system out there. 

Solar Battery Price Factor 3: Balance of System (BOS) Equipment

Installing a solar battery is not as simple as sticking a battery to the wall and running a wire to the main electrical panel. There are other important pieces of equipment that are critical to making home batteries function properly. (Continue reading here to learn more)

You can always trust us at Roper Roofing & Solar for your solar panel needs. Contact us today to learn more about everything that we can accomplish with you.