Good video, thanks. Would like to see more videos on how to add the various battery storage systems to existing PV installations under a variety of operating scenarios (self consumption, whole home backup and maybe EV charging).
Great video. I'd add one additional aspect when referring to net metering. Some power companies charge a decent standby amount for larger systems that remove some of the savings. A battery can eliminate the need for net metering and that standby cost. If you are close to being self-sufficient in terms of electric generation, a battery could be used to remove those standby charges. As long as you rarely need the grid, it can save you $30+ per month in standby charges depending on how the energy provider structures things. On its own, it doesn't justify the cost, but is a factor to consider if you are looking for reasons to get a battery.
@rm00k some energy companies charge a standby rate for energy you might need. In my area, they charge a few dollars for every kW over 15 kW. So a 16 kW system has a couple dollars added for a standby charge. These vary and can add up to unexpected costs that reduce your savings. These impacts can be greater in areas where electricity is relatively cheap.
Could you guys make a video about an Enphase microinverter setup with AC coupled battery like the Tesla Powerwall 2 and how it all should be integrated and monitored etc.? Here in Europe prices for the PW2 have dropped significantly and the new Enphase IQ 5P battery is still hard to find/expenisve.
AC coupled is preferable if you do not have PV. The source power is late night and cheap electrons from the utility or if you are in California, cheap duck curve power from your PV neighbor. The number one reason for battery storage is clean backup power, not surplus PV.
I have a small solar edge system with a 7.6 kw inverter and no batteries. Can I install one inverter and run my current solar edge thru that inverter, then add another new system and use the same batteries? I want to be grid connected.
Yes this is all possible. You dont even need to replace the inverter if you use an AC-coupled battery like FranklinWH. You can just add that to your existing SolarEdge system.
Thanks for this informative video how the new invention of a battery works! Oh wait, you've explained to us how they work in every one of your last 100 videos! Maybe I'll resubscribe when you stop putting out regurgitated slop videos.
As more people stop buying electricity, the price of electricity has to increase and it will make more economic sense. As more offgrid technology is installed, it becomes a mass market and economics of scale increase. Electric vehicles with v2g and parked all day will be available as 2nd hand vehicles. In Australia 20million vehicles and 1million new each year. That is 1million trade ins each year. The early adopters will buy new and sell their low mileage older EV. If new 1million are EV, then at 2million the amount of battery on the grid 23hrs every day changes the grid economics. Customer feed-in will be dirt cheap and large enough to become valuable and cause permanent change in the grids cashflow and the grids relationship with its central generation plant, its traditional supplier. New demand from industrial users moving away from fossil fuels to clean electricity will repurpose the grid and change the entire supply demand economics. Central generation plant owners will try to get nuclear reactors to heat their existing generation plant. But customers dirt cheap rooftop PV electricity will take customer's cashflow off the grid. Grid owners will be forced to keep their existing relationship with their customers. The relationship will become a backup service and a taker of excess rooftop electricity, feed-in electricity, dirt cheap electricity. The cashflow will now come from the new industrial customers' increasingly larger demand. 80% of the world's population is in dictatorships and warm latitudes. All latitudes are warming. Mid winter weeks fossil fueled emergency use will not be a problem.
Good video, thanks. Would like to see more videos on how to add the various battery storage systems to existing PV installations under a variety of operating scenarios (self consumption, whole home backup and maybe EV charging).
Well explained.. thx
Great video. I'd add one additional aspect when referring to net metering. Some power companies charge a decent standby amount for larger systems that remove some of the savings. A battery can eliminate the need for net metering and that standby cost. If you are close to being self-sufficient in terms of electric generation, a battery could be used to remove those standby charges. As long as you rarely need the grid, it can save you $30+ per month in standby charges depending on how the energy provider structures things. On its own, it doesn't justify the cost, but is a factor to consider if you are looking for reasons to get a battery.
Don't understand what you mean by standby charges and cost.
@rm00k some energy companies charge a standby rate for energy you might need. In my area, they charge a few dollars for every kW over 15 kW. So a 16 kW system has a couple dollars added for a standby charge. These vary and can add up to unexpected costs that reduce your savings. These impacts can be greater in areas where electricity is relatively cheap.
Could you guys make a video about an Enphase microinverter setup with AC coupled battery like the Tesla Powerwall 2 and how it all should be integrated and monitored etc.?
Here in Europe prices for the PW2 have dropped significantly and the new Enphase IQ 5P battery is still hard to find/expenisve.
How much would another battery change my monthly payment
AC coupled is preferable if you do not have PV.
The source power is late night and cheap electrons from the utility or if you are in California, cheap duck curve power from your PV neighbor. The number one reason for battery storage is clean backup power, not surplus PV.
I have enphase solar panel systems. How much battery cost? My system was installed in the summer 2023.
That depends. It could be as low as $10k or as high as $50k+ depending on how much battery capacity you need.
I have a small solar edge system with a 7.6 kw inverter and no batteries. Can I install one inverter and run my current solar edge thru that inverter, then add another new system and use the same batteries? I want to be grid connected.
Yes this is all possible. You dont even need to replace the inverter if you use an AC-coupled battery like FranklinWH. You can just add that to your existing SolarEdge system.
Thanks for this informative video how the new invention of a battery works! Oh wait, you've explained to us how they work in every one of your last 100 videos! Maybe I'll resubscribe when you stop putting out regurgitated slop videos.
As more people stop buying electricity, the price of electricity has to increase and it will make more economic sense.
As more offgrid technology is installed, it becomes a mass market and economics of scale increase.
Electric vehicles with v2g and parked all day will be available as 2nd hand vehicles.
In Australia 20million vehicles and 1million new each year.
That is 1million trade ins each year.
The early adopters will buy new and sell their low mileage older EV.
If new 1million are EV, then at 2million the amount of battery on the grid 23hrs every day changes the grid economics.
Customer feed-in will be dirt cheap and large enough to become valuable and cause permanent change in the grids cashflow and the grids relationship with its central generation plant, its traditional supplier.
New demand from industrial users moving away from fossil fuels to clean electricity will repurpose the grid and change the entire supply demand economics.
Central generation plant owners will try to get nuclear reactors to heat their existing generation plant.
But customers dirt cheap rooftop PV electricity will take customer's cashflow off the grid.
Grid owners will be forced to keep their existing relationship with their customers.
The relationship will become a backup service and a taker of excess rooftop electricity, feed-in electricity, dirt cheap electricity.
The cashflow will now come from the new industrial customers' increasingly larger demand.
80% of the world's population is in dictatorships and warm latitudes.
All latitudes are warming.
Mid winter weeks fossil fueled emergency use will not be a problem.