Solar Battery Storage – How Does It Work?
Solar battery storage preserves energy that has been generated from the sun, safely storing this inside an electric battery bank for future use. An ideal solar solution, these batteries give flexibility to energy usage and save solar panel energy for when you really need it. Whether you’re a large or small business, farm or home, then solar batteries will help you turn sunlight into savings. This is as well as encouraging efficient energy storage and sustainability, all through ensuring that any gathered energy isn’t wasted at all.
Keep on reading to explore what exactly solar batteries are, their benefits and how they work alongside a set of solar panels.
What Are Solar Batteries?
A solar battery stores excess energy generated by solar panels, meaning that it is possible for your home or business to be powered by solar electricity when the sun isn’t shining and the darkness is taking over outside.The last thing you want is to have no electricity left!
With a higher capacity than normal batteries, solar batteries are much more durable and can be used for a prolonged period of time, making them the ultimate choice for energy storage.
Encouraging environmental awareness and fostering sustainability, solar batteries are pivotal in having a low environmental impact and promoting overall energy dependence.
How Do Solar Batteries Work?
There are two different battery technologies that are currently used, called lithium-ion and lead-acid. Both safely performing cyclic charging and discharging, they offer superfast and safe charging.
With the solar battery process being fairly straightforward, the procedure is as follows:
- Energy is generated from the sun onto the solar panels
- The direct current (DC) electricity flows through an inverter to generate alternating current (AC) electricity
- The AC electricity powers your home appliances
- The excess electricity that isn’t used by your appliances charges your batteries
- When the sun goes down, your appliances are powered by the stored energy in your battery.
Did You Know?
Solar batteries used to experience some criticism, despite their sustainable outputs, due to the limitations of their energy having to be used at the same time or else, it is completely wasted. With solar batteries providing long-term renewable services and solutions, this means that no solar power energy is ever lost.
Have you got any questions to do with how solar batteries work? Just contact us on 01364 654271 or send us an email to enquiries@mecontrax.co.uk and we’ll be more than happy to help.
How Much Solar Energy Is Needed?
Solar panels typically produce electricity for an average of 5 hours a day, so enough energy stored for the remaining 19 hours is required.
Based on the 6.3kW electricity load, around 120kWh of a battery capacity, equivalent to 12 average solar batteries.
What Are The Benefits of Solar Battery Storage?
It is evident that solar batteries present a whole host of advantages, providing valuable renewable energy to individuals across the globe. Here are the top five benefits of solar electric battery storage:
1. Reduced monthly bills
Solar batteries maximise your use of the low-carbon energy that you’re generating from the sun, meaning that less electricity needs to be imported from the grid. Leading to lower monthly energy bill costs and less reliance on the National Grid, a solar battery is the ultimate energy storage solution.
2. Be in control of your electricity
When you are purely relying on solar panels with no batteries and the panels are not producing enough electricity for your requirements, you’ll end up paying for much more electricity, due to having to draw from the grid.
Take control over the energy and reduce your vulnerability to energy price hikes by investing in solar energy battery storage battery systems, a power independent solar system.
3. Minimal maintenance
Once the solar battery is installed, these devices require little maintenance so that you don’t need to spend endless amounts of time or money afterwards.
With other types of batteries often needing to have a trained technician to complete the annual check-ups and solar servicing, solar batteries are much more secure and user-friendly.
4. Environmentally friendly
Using less harmful and recyclable materials, solar batteries play a large role in contributing to diminishing greenhouse gas emissions which can be particularly damaging to the environment.
5. Minimal noise
Due to their silent nature, you won’t have to worry about dealing with any overbearing sounds in the background. With only an indistinct sound being directed from the inverter, solar batteries are relatively quiet and won’t interfere with your day-to-day life.
Solar Batteries & Storage From M&E Contrax
With bespoke strategies in place, our team at M&E Contrax can design and install solar batteries for your solar panels for optimum performance.
Specialising in solar panel and battery installations for commercial residences, we can ensure that your AC or DC coupled system matches not only your needs and requirements, but also is designed in the most efficient way for yourselves.
Giving clear advice and reliable products, our solar battery storage solutions at competitive prices.
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Our partnership with Ignition Credit means that we can provide specialist financial solutions to the renewable energy sector, with a team who comprehend the demands of renewable finance.
From solar battery storage and solar panels to commercial solar installations and more, we help make finance simple.
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With NICEIC accreditations and 24/7 emergency support for your solar installations, don’t hesitate to schedule an appointment with us where we can discuss your solar goals. Contact us on 01364 654271 or send us an email to enquiries@mecontrax.co.uk where we will be happy to help.
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