San Diego Home battery energy storage

When you add a home battery to your solar system, you extend your solar capability in ways that give you more control over your energy, and can reduce your energy costs even more. The benefits of a home battery are:

• It gives you backup power in case of grid outages or planned blackouts.
• It extends the energy capability of your solar panels by charging with free solar energy during the daytime, which you can then use at night, when electricity rates are highest and your solar panels can’t generate power.
• It enables you to avoid the unfair time-of-use billing rates now used by utility companies.
• It helps you further reduce your dependence on the grid, and even go fully off-grid, if that’s your ultimate goal.

For more details about how home batteries work and could benefit you, see How Home Battery works.

Key features:

Intelligent power cycling
Powerwall charges from your solar panels during the daytime. You then use the stored battery power in the evening when your solar panels can’t generate power. This means you can avoid high time-of-use electricity rates.

Seamless backup
If there’s a power outage, your solar panels can continue to power your home and charge your Powerwall. With the Storm Watch feature, Powerwall can communicate with the National Weather Service and prioritize charging in anticipation of severe weather.

Full monitoring
Powerwall comes with full monitoring, metering and management for the system that shows current status and past use. And it’s all accessible on your phone from a dedicated app.

What you get

A Powerwall installation includes at least one Powerwall, a Tesla Gateway and electrical hardware. Baker Home Energy will recommend the number of Powerwalls you need based on your historical energy consumption, anticipated future usage and energy goals.