How to Pick a Solar Panel and Battery Backup System
In any guise, multi-kilowatt batteries deliver a reliable, low-maintenance, and resilient source of electricity in the event of a disaster. Here''s how you can set one up for your
The federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 also contains incentives that may affect your decision to add battery backup to an existing solar system: Through 2032, you'll be able to claim 30% of the project cost as a tax credit when you file with the IRS.
Battery backup systems are too customized for us to recommend specific batteries, to suggest how many kilowatt-hours of storage you need to run your home when the grid is down, or to outline how much solar production you need to keep your battery charged. (And which brand you wind up getting is often tied to your choice of installer, besides.)
Although solar battery storage will keep important appliances and devices running in an outage, the manufacturers and some installers I spoke with all said they consider that to be a useful but secondary function. Primarily, they view such systems as a way for homeowners to limit their utility bills by practicing something called “peak shaving.”
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