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Solar Battery StorageDo You Need Solar Battery Backup?Solar battery storage is essential if you wish to remain off grid and run electrical appliances in your home on cloudy overcast days and at night when your solar panels cannot generate sufficient electrical power. That's because photovoltaic panels can only generate electricity when they're directly exposed to sunlight.Today's busy lifestyles don't allow us to stop using electrical power once the sun goes down or during periods of bad weather, so we need to have a practical backup power plan in place. A solar battery storage system usually takes the form of an array or bank of deep cycle solar power batteries kept on storage racks in a vented, secure location like the corner of a dry basement or a converted storage room. Connected between your solar panels and the bank of solar batteries, you'll need a battery charge controller to help regulate the flow of electricity to and from your bank of solar storage batteries and maximize their service life.
Solar Storage Batteries - PowerPhoto © by Don Bell The size of the solar storage battery bank needed will depend on the size of your home or building and its daily power requirements, and the size of your solar panel system. You will need to determine your electricity needs by averaging the previous year's utility bills. Calculations of this sort will help determine your solar battery needs. Cost Of Solar BatteriesSolar batteries are expensive. When installing solar power, there is an initial cost quoted for the system, so be sure that all the components you need are covered in the estimate for the best pricing.Some solar panel installers quote a price that includes your solar power inverter, your solar storage batteries, and your solar charge controller, but this isn't always the case. Make sure everything is included to avoid surprises. Alternatives To Solar Battery StorageYou might not need a solar battery backup system in place. It all depends on whether you want to install a fully operational off grid solar system, or just a partial one.For instance, simply connect automatically to the power grid after sundown and use electricity from the local power company as your backup power source. Or, if you plan to sell your generated surplus power back to the electrical utility by taking advantage of a Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program using a solar power inverter, you won't need backup power storage at all. Solar storage batteries would be optional in such cases, though you might wish to have a standby generator connected for those unexpected times when there are power outages. Good planning will help determine whether a solar battery storage system will be effective for meeting the electrical needs of your household. The following articles offer additional information to help you in your early planning: Solar Power Batteries - What Are Deep Cycle Solar Batteries? Solar Charge Controller - Discover How To Protect Your Solar Batteries TOP of Solar Battery Storage HOME to Solar Power Systems |
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