Originally Posted By BobtheTrain
Originally Posted By nick w
Originally Posted By Hamwich
Originally Posted By sospan
Maybe home battery packs to store solar energy will expand?


This is where the smart money in the utilities is being invested. New companies are setting up who are aiming at aggregating thousands of domestic customers with battery storage to act as tradeable units on the wholesale electricity market.

People who invest in solar panels with battery storage can look forward to being able to realise significant benefits in future.

On a slightly larger scale, we are seeing increasing numbers of Industrial and Commercial customers abandoning diesel generation backup in favour of battery storage to provide backup supply in case of outage on the grid.


What sort of battery can release electricity at grid levels then?
Could you point me towards any info, sounds really interesting.
Nick

We have battery back-up for our solar panels which is supposed to save money in the evening when the sun goes down. Only had them for 3 months, so hard to tell the difference but time will tell. £4600 for installation which included another inverter.



Wow - early adopter there Bob - considering a retro fit to my solar panels at some point, but thinking price of batteries will come way down when masss production kicks in like it did for solar panels.


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