Home battery storage without solar saves customers up to £1700 per year
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The battery will discharge when energy costs are high, running your home on low-cost, low-carbon battery power
Home battery storage is changing rapidly and the new Alpha ESS Smile battery(l ink to out page), Tesla Powerwall 3 (link to out page and sunsunc batteries (link to out page allow you to save uo to 70% on your bills. The new batteries and tariffs from Octopus make it possible to save up to 70% on your bills without solar panels
You can still cut costs and carbon emissions alike using just a battery. With that in mind, here’s a handy guide to using home battery storage without solar.
Overview
A home storage battery will store green energy for later use in your home. You will be able to run your home on low-cost battery power, rather than drawing from the grid during peak hours. This is the ideal solution for heat pump users who can save 70% on their bills
If you have solar power, then the battery will take its charge from the available renewable source. If you don’t have solar panels the battery will simply charge from the grid when the cheapest, cleanest energy in the evening typically from midnight to 4am. This means battery will charge when energy costs are low. Then, it will discharge when energy costs are high – saving you money and reducing the demand on the grid.
This process is called “load shifting”. The home battery storage without solar works to shift peak energy into the cheaper off peak period. You can use energy during peak times – without paying peak charges.
The benefits of a home battery
Home energy storage allows you to benefit in many ways. These include:-
- Reduced energy bills. Up to 70% reduction
- An energy supply protected from power cuts
- Cheap energy day and night
- Energy independence
- Improved control over your home energy usage
- Flexibility to choose when you buy and use energy
- Visibility into your energy data in conjunction with your energy provider
What battery capacity do I need?
Your needed battery capacity depends on factors that will be discussed with us. We offer a free assessment. Book your free assessment. The following considerations will inform us of the battery capacity.
- The size of your home
- The number of residents in the home
- How much energy you generate (or will generate) from any renewables in place
Green squirrel energy will provide a charging plan to ensure your battery can be charged. Your battery will charge using off-peak grid rates. Some of the cheapest rates within a 4 hour window overnight. (As a minimum.) So, that means you’ll want a battery that can fully charge within 4 hours. That is, during the super-low rate window.
However, you’ll likely want that same fast-charging battery to provide ample power for your home throughout the evening. Customers without solar opt for a high-capacity battery. For example, The Tesla Powerwall three is a popular choice. . This battery capacity will give you plenty of power and a backup power system bult into the battery. We recommended choosing enough capacity to meet 120% of your daily use.
Smart Tariff’s from Octopus
Smart tariffs are also known as time of use tariffs . As an Octopus energy trusted partner we offer free advice in how to use offer such tariffs. Octopus energy and UK energy retail companies offer a range of cheap energy prices during off-peak hours. Being able to take full advantage of smart tariffs, then, requires you to stop drawing from the grid during peak hours. Your home storage battery makes this possible.
How do batteries integrate with smart tariff’s?
The batteries we install come with built-in smart technology that primes the system for agile tariffs and smart grid trading. This technology means that your home storage battery will take advantage of smart tariffs to charge and discharge intelligently.
Will I still need an inverter if I have home battery storage without solar?
An inverter is what makes your battery storage solution smart. So, even if you don’t have solar installed, you’ll still need an inverter as part of your energy storage package. It will:
- Communicate between the grid and your battery
- Feed in data to your energy management software
- Convert current from DC to AC, for safe use in the home
In short, without an inverter, your storage battery will be very limited and you won’t function as you need it to. You’ll need one as part of your setup.
Does a home battery need an inverter
You will still need an inverter as part of your energy storage system as it the communication device, data module and most importantly converts current from DC to AC, for safe use in the home
Essentially, home battery storage without solar is a great way to enter the clean, low-cost energy game – without needing to pay the added cost of a full solar array.
Can a Solar System be added to the system later
If you want to upgrade your setup by installing solar then Green Squirrel Energy will do a free solar plan for you to ensure you have full information on the return on investment.
The choice of your system will carefully recommend by our expert team. The only thing you’d need to factor in if you’re considering solar would be your inverter choice.
Any battery storage system needs, as a minimum, a battery inverter. Homes that also have solar installed, however, will need a battery inverter plus a solar inverter t
Green Squirrel Energy offer AC couple inverters (a battery only inverter), hybrid inverters a battery plus solar inverter in one solution. At Green Squirrel Energy we offer a range of batteries including Tesla powerwall, Alpha Ess, Sunsync, My Energi, and Duracell.
Battery storage manufacturers offer very good warranties. The technology is built to last. We protect our batteries with a full manufacturer’s warranty that covers you for 12 years. So, you’ll get a minimum of a decade from your home battery.
A home storage battery will store green energy for later use in your home. So, you can run your home on low-cost battery power, rather than drawing from the grid during peak hours. In homes with renewables, the battery will take its charge from the available renewable source. But what happens if your home doesn’t have renewables for the battery to take its charge from?
In this case, the battery will simply charge from the grid when the cheapest, cleanest energy is flowing through the wires. So, the battery will charge when energy costs are low (usually overnight). Then, it will discharge when energy costs are high – saving you money, and reducing the demand on the grid.
This process is called “load shifting”. The home battery storage without solar works to shift peak energy into the cheaper off peak period. Or, rather, to allow you to use energy during peak times – without paying peak charges.
How Do Smart Tarriff’s Work
Home battery storage without solar goes hand-in-hand with smart tariffs. Smart tariffs – a offer different prices for energy at different times of the day. So, you get cheap energy prices during off-peak hours. With one of battery options you will be able to take full advantage of smart tariffs, then, requires you to stop drawing from the grid during peak hours. Your home storage battery makes this possible.
With smart tariffs and a battery storage combined, you can charge cheaply, switch to battery power, and effortlessly shift your electricity use during peak hours.
Will I still need an inverter if I have home battery storage without solar?
An inverter is what makes your battery storage solution smart. So, even if you don’t have solar installed, you’ll still need an inverter as part of your energy storage package. It will:
- Communicate between the grid and your battery
- Feed in data to your energy management software
- Convert current from DC to AC, for safe use in the home
In short, without an inverter, your storage battery will be ‘dumb’ and won’t function as you need it to. You’ll need one as part of your setup.
What are the benefits of home battery storage without solar?
Home battery storage without solar allows you to capitalise on the general benefits of energy storage systems, without the entry barrier of solar panel costs.
So, you can expect:
- Reduced energy bills
- Reduced home carbon emissions
- An energy supply better protected from disruption
- Cheap energy day and night
- More energy independence
- Tighter control over your home energy usage
- The flexibility to choose when you buy and use energy
- Visibility into your energy data
Essentially, home battery storage without solar is a great way to enter the clean, low-cost energy game – without needing to pay the added cost of a full solar array.
Can I add solar to my setup later down the line?
You may choose to start off with home battery storage without solar. But what if you want to upgrade your setup by installing renewables later down the line.
Your choice of solar panel won’t affect your GivEnergy energy storage setup – it will work with any solar array. The only thing you’d need to factor in if you’re considering solar would be your inverter setup.
As we covered a little earlier on this page, an inverter is the computer or ‘brains’ part of a battery storage system. So, any battery storage system needs, as a minimum, a battery inverter.
Homes that also have solar installed, however, will need a battery inverter plus a solar inverter. (Essential for safely converting current back and forth from the solar panels, to the battery, to the home.)
At green squirrel energy we offer AC coupled inverters (a battery only inverter), hybrid inverters (a battery plus solar inverter in one solution), This means that, if you choose, your options are completely open when it comes to adding solar at a later date.
What battery capacity do I need?
Your needed battery capacity depends on variables such as:
- The size of your home
- The number of residents in the home
- Whether you have high-consumption power needs (EVs, hot tubs, swimming pools, etc)
- How much energy you generate (or will generate) from any renewables in place
Without solar, your battery will charge using off-peak grid rates. Typically, you’ll get the absolute cheapest rates within a 4 hour window overnight. (As a minimum.) So, that means you’ll want a battery that can fully charge within 4 hours. That is, during the super-low rate window.
How do I manage the battery?
Once installed, your battery storage system will work without input. The system will set to ensuring that it works dynamically to maximise your self- consumption. Inbuilt algorithms mean that your battery will charge and discharge intelligently – automatically taking advantage of cheap rates.
All this means that, once set up, there’s no need for you to lift a finger or manually tell the system what to do. Each system has common features such as an app to set up the controls you need.
Your battery storage solutions are built to last. We protect our batteries with a full manufacturer’s warranty that covers you for up to 12 years.
How is the process
1. Discover and Evaluate
We’ll ask about your home and its power use and evaluate the best solution.
2. Planning
Once the solution is chosen the next stage is the planning of the location of the batterie(s) and resources.
3. Install Date
The install date will be confirmed and the team will professionally install the system.
4. Contact
We’ll send your query off to local installers for quotes.
5. Installation
You’ll get your product fitted by your chosen installer.
6. Control
Done – you’ll be in full control of your energy.
Other Renewables and Future Changes
Future changes to gas prices and National Security
The UK is extremely vulnerable to energy price variations, and it is simply better to have less reliance on outside suppliers of gas. By using cheap off peak power, you can reduce our energy costs.
Reduce your environmental Impact
Switching to renewable energy is a positive impact to the environment. A recent client has moved to being gas zero, and massively reduced her carbon impact on the environment at the same time as removing a 1970,s , inefficient cylinder, removing very old radiators and replacing them with modern new radiators. As the boiler had already become unreliable and obsolete the overall improvement was massive when she installed a heat pump. The use of 100% renewable energy and being gas zero is possible with battery providing cheaper power.
Climate Change
Director of Green Squirrel Energy Alan Little states “sitting back and waiting for climate disaster is not a option for me. Join us on our Green Road to a better future.
Heat pump costs using specialist energy tariffs
Energy companies such at Octopus energy offer specialist tariffs that significantly discount the electricity used to power a heat pump – with one of these in place the calculations quickly swing in the favour of those with heat pumps.
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