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As a local electrician in Warwick, I regularly carry out Solar Panel and Battery installation. The benefits of a well installed sun powered electrical system are numerous. Powering your home when there is sufficiently strong light will save money, can reduce your carbon footprint and your reliance on the national grid for supplying your power.
Solar systems are particularly useful for properties in remote locations where obtaining a grid connection for electricity could prove incredibly expensive. When there is good light and plenty of power available, we are often not in the property to be able to benefit from the surplus of electricity, so what happens? Well, in many cases, this could simply be wasted. Solar Battery Storage offers a solution.
What are Solar Batteries?
Solar batteries store the electricity that the solar panels produce and keep hold of it for later. This stored energy can be used anytime its needed including throughout the dark hours or night time.
Game changer, no?
If we consider a typical domestic home, most people are out at work during the day time and come home in the dark or with minimal light left of the day. Then the power needs for the property increase as we cook the dinner, put the lights on and switch on the TV or EV charger. All of a sudden there is a demand for electricity that, without Solar Batteries, would not be available and would have to come from the national grid.
How do Solar Batteries Work?
A solar battery storage setup takes all available power from the solar panels when they are producing it and stores the energy for later when it is needed.
This transfer of energy is actually very efficient as little electricity is lost in the process of movement from the panels to batteries, storage and then release.
Once this electrical energy is requested back later on in the day, it is transferred from the battery system into the home electrical system through an inverter.
What is an inverter?
Electricity is stored in batteries but it is simply not compatible with our home electrical system in this form.
Our electricity supply in the UK is supplied as an alternating current (AC) supply at a frequency of 50Hz.
Gobbledygook?
What this means is that 50 times per second, the electrical current going around our homes fluctuates between positive and negative cycles. Its all to do with how the national grid generate electricity and transport it.
Batteries store electricity as DC or Direct Current. The trouble with this is, DC is lazy. It would never be able to make its way from the power station to our homes effectively. BUT it can make its way from the batteries into our homes AND get converted to AC on the way.
The job of the inverter is to change DC into AC so that all the electrical equipment in our homes would work correctly.
This process is also quite efficient with minimal losses from the transfer process.
What does all this mean for you?
With a battery storage system at your Warwick home, you will use less electricity from the grid than just having solar panels alone. The ability to save unused electricity for later on is a fantastic cost saver along with reducing the stress on the grid.
The amount of battery storage you require will depend upon the needs and demands of your home electrical system, contact us to discuss your requirements.
As your local electrician in Warwick, we also offer a wide range of other services that you may find you need. So don’t hesitate to give us a call if you need anything.
