Why solar batteries?
Having a solar battery backup system for your home can offer multiple benefits such as reducing your environmental impact, lowering your energy bills, giving you autonomy over your home’s energy, and preparing you for potential power outages. Electricity prices have been continuously increasing, and there are no indications that this trend will stop anytime soon. Hence, investing in a solar panel system is a practical way to combat these rising costs. What’s more, if the energy you generate through solar panels can also reduce harmful carbon emissions polluting the planet, it’s a win-win situation.
By installing solar panels on your rooftop, you can generate clean solar energy for your home. However, adding a battery backup system to your solar energy setup means you can take charge of your energy production and usage.
What are the benefits of solar battery storage?
A home battery backup is really helpful for managing your home’s energy. With a solar battery, you can store the energy made during the day and use it at night. You can also choose when to use electricity from the grid to avoid high prices during peak hours. Having a battery backup is important for staying powered during natural disasters or blackouts. Solar batteries are a great investment for making your home more independent and prepared. Plus, you can get a tax credit and other incentives depending on where you live. So, yes, solar batteries are definitely worth it!
Enphase Battery Storage
Enphase Energy provides backup battery products that let you save energy when the power grid is up and use it later when the grid goes down. It’s that simple! The best part about their battery storage system is that you can choose from different storage capacities. Unlike other battery options, you don’t have to install huge amounts of storage all at once. Instead, you can increase your storage capacity in smaller increments.
Monitor your production and usage with the Enphase App
The Enphase app lets you track your solar panel production and consumption in real-time. Accessible from your phone, tablet, computer, or any internet-connected device, you’ll get insights into nearly every function and performance statistic of your solar system.
Complete with detailed views, graphs, and reports, the Enphase app is a groundbreaking solar monitoring tool that gives you total insight into per-panel production data and historical storage data — all within a single click.
Track your Energy Consumption
Once your solar panels and Enphase Battery are installed, your Enphase Enlighten online solar monitoring system will allow you to stay updated and keep track of the energy consumption on your panels at a moment’s notice.
And it doesn’t just stop there…
With your Enphase App you will be able to:
- See clear indicators when your system is operating normally.
- If there is an issue with your solar array it will alert you.
- If the issue is with a solar panel it will point out the specific panel having problems.
- It regularly receives updates about the daily system performance, those include:
- How much energy has been produced that day
- Daily power reading, the peak power for the day
- The current weather.
- It keeps a detailed log of your system’s power production through the day in 15 minute periods, both currently and through the time of installation.
- You can look at the real-time performance of any day of the lifetime of the system.
- You can see how much power was produced throughout a 12 month period each day of the month. With this, you get a good idea of what months are the most productive for your system.
To sum up, at SW Smart Homes, we want you to feel completely confident in your solar panel system. That’s why we offer online solar monitoring, which allows you to get updates on your panels quickly and easily, giving you peace of mind.