Solar Batteries

A Solar battery lets you capture and store electricity so you can use it at another time.

For example, you can store the electricity your solar panels generate during the day and use it at night.

This is definitely worth considering if you generate your own energy at home with solar panels but could use more of it during the evenings.

Is solar battery storage right for my home?

If you have solar PV panels, or are planning to install them, then using solar batteries to store electricity you’ve generated will help you to maximise the amount of renewable energy you use.

In fact, 70% of people who have, or would consider, a home battery told us the reason was so they could use more of the electricity generated by their solar panels.

If your home is off-grid, it can help to reduce your use of fossil fuel back-up generators.

Even without solar panels, you may be looking to make use of time-of-use tariffs with a battery. This will let you store up electricity while it’s cheap (overnight, for example) so you can use it during peak times.

Quite a few energy companies have launched these already, and we expect to see more of them as they can help to balance energy supply and demand, and reduce the need for additional fossil-fuel generation at peak times.