As a solar homeowner with a panel-only setup, you’re likely familiar with the inconveniences of blackouts, power outages, and high time-of-use (TOU) rates.
Without a power backup for home use the solar energy you generate will be fed back to the grid through net metering, often leading to fees rather than incentives due to NEM 3.0. To truly harness your solar energy — for keeping medical devices or home offices powered, for example — more homeowners are choosing solar power backup that ensures continuous power.
At NeoVolta, we’ve crafted a home power backup that outshines lithium-ion competitors, presenting virtually no fire risk and is installable in approximately six to eight hours. This is thanks to its lithium-iron composition, void of thermal runaway, and enduring about six years longer than li-ion units.
Read on to explore how power backup for home solar systems can keep your lights on during grid failures and minimize bothersome energy fees.
Why is a Power Backup Crucial for Home Solar Systems?
If you’ve already invested in rooftop solar panels, you know the freedom of harnessing sunlight for your home. However, during cloudy days or peak demand, a panel-only system has its limitations.
A power backup for home solar systems maximizes your solar investment by storing the energy captured by your panels, liberating you from high TOU rates, and enabling an always-on lifestyle.
“Always-On” Power
A solar battery like NeoVolta’s NV14 allows homeowners to designate critical circuits to specific rooms and devices for backup power. This guarantees power for vital areas like kitchens, home offices, and medical equipment such as CPAP machines and small medical refrigerators. With a power backup for your home, you can experience uninterrupted energy, irrespective of the grid’s status.
Reduced TOU Rates & Demand Charges
TOU pricing spikes during peak hours, as you likely know as a solar homeowner. But with solar paired with power backup for home use, you can avoid pulling expensive energy from the grid.
With a solar battery, you can capture and store energy during the day for use at night, when electricity demand peaks. Most solar battery backups, including NeoVolta’s NV14, commence delivering stored solar power automatically to manage higher evening loads, helping to alleviate the sting of TOU rates that soar late afternoon and evening.
On top of reducing your TOU rates, a power backup for your home is the key to reducing demand charges, which are determined by your highest spike in energy usage each month.
Stored Energy vs. Back-fed Energy
With NEM 3.0 dialing back the incentives for energy sell-backs, homeowners have a choice: continue to feed energy from panel-only systems to the grid or install a power backup for home use that gives them complete control over the energy they store.
In other words, panel-only setups will send excess solar power back to the grid by default. With a solar battery, especially an incombustible unit such as NeoVolta’s NV14, you can store that energy for use during outages, blackouts, and when demand is at its highest.
Back-fed energy earns credits only when your home doesn’t need it. Thankfully, stored energy provides true backup when the grid is down or rates are high, allowing you to avoid the inconveniences of power outages and keep the lights “always on.”
NeoVolta’s NV14 Energy Storage System
Solar batteries allow homeowners to stay powered on when the grid goes down, but popular lithium-ion options pose combustion risks that make them less ideal for the home.
NeoVolta’s lithium-iron batteries don’t just last six years longer than li-ion on average – they have no thermal runaway risk, meaning your NV14 battery won’t catch fire. And when it comes to the home, where your customers and their families eat, sleep, and gather, no risk should be taken lightly.
Help your customers attain always-on power without the safety risks with NeoVolta’s NV14 solar battery.
When the grid fails, solar homeowners with trustworthy battery backups can keep their lights and essential devices “always on.” Traditional lithium-ion batteries, though, pose fire safety risks that aren’t suitable for home use. NeoVolta’s lithium-iron-phosphate power backup for the home stands out as the exception.
Unlike li-ion batteries, Neovolta’s NV14 battery has virtually no risk for thermal runaway and lasts about six years more on average – making it an ideal option for solar homeowners.
If you’re a solar homeowner, visit the NeoVolta website for more details on our NV14 battery and find installers near you.
