What You Need To Know About Household ESS and 5 Benefits & Advantages
Wondering what a househould ESS is, and how it can revolutionize the way you use clean energy at home? You’re in the right spot and then follow this article. Not only is the Troncubes all about hooking people up with their own, battery-fueled energy fortress, but we love telling people about home batteries, and why no ESS is complete without them.
Shortly, household ESS means House Energy Storage System, while a home battery is an in-home energy storage unit that has enough ability to store energy either straight from the on-grid electricity or energy generated from renewable energy resources like solar panels and wind. Households can install a single home battery, or couple them together in parallel or in series connection for even stronger storage capacity. Using lithium-ion technology, home lithium batteries charge and discharge just like any rechargeable lithium battery, only on a much larger scale. You can use a home battery to power most loads in your home, depending on how much power the load demands, and how much storage capacity the battery has. The benefits of owning a home battery of ESS are pretty amazing. Keep reading to learn about how a household ESS can integarte the wisdom of the IoT system to transform the way you are thinking about, and use energy at your home with your Phone.
Why should households need a household lithium battery of ESS?
The 2019 California power shut-offs left over 700,000 people without power, spelling trouble for those without a backup power source. Energy insecurity and general discomfort became a serious problem as utility companies flipped the switch. In the past, many homeowners used fuel-powered generators to power select parts of their homes during an outage. There were even frequent power outages in the past due to perennial tsunamis in areas close to the coast such as Japan. In China, due to excessive energy load, the Chinese government has imposed a strict power rationing policy on industrial parks. The electricity price of on-grid electricity in Germany and even South Africa is very expensive.
In the past, many homeowners used fuel-powered generators to power select parts of their homes during an outage. But now, as solar is more widely available, solar-powered home battery systems are rapidly becoming a more popular alternative to fuel-based backup generators. Solar-powered battery backup systems are more versatile energy sources, as they are able to store energy generated by solar panels, as well as from the grid during off-peak hours, for use during costly on-peak hours, or during blackouts or power outages.
Then what are the benefits and advantages about smart home lithium batteries of ESS? Home batteries have been around for decades. But just like the iPhone before the smartphone, home batteries used to be bulky, expensive, inconvenient, and limited in functionality.
1.MAXIMISE CONSUMPTION OF YOUR OWN POWER
In a traditional solar power setup, You’d normally have the solar panels on your roof and your home backed up to the grid. This means that if you’re not producing enough energy from your own solar panels, you’ll still have power fed to your home from the grid. On the other hand, if you make more power than you consume, you’ll generally be able to sell the excess back to the grid, meaning your electricity bills will sometimes be credited or discounted. However, these fees in selling back to the grid have changed quite substantially over the years and can change at any time. Depending on your location, you may find the sell-back rate varies from another area, which doesn’t seem fair at all. It’s the same sun after all, isn’t it? Residential battery storage means that you can control and store all of your excess power. If you have a solar panel system that’s giving you more power than what you need to use, you can use these batteries to store power instead of selling it back to the grid. That way you can use the power from these batteries when you have bad weather or little sunshine. Having a battery backup essentially means you have a lot more control of how you use the power that your home is producing.
2.KEEP YOUR HOME’S ELECTRICITY RESILIENT
This is especially useful if you live in an area where your local grid power can sometimes be unstable, or if your area has encountered natural conditions that have left the power down for a few hours or days. Food will go off if you don’t have sufficient cooling coming from your fridge, and of course, you’re left with a very inconvenient wait while your power supply is back up and running. If you have solar panels you may be able to survive until your power runs out and the grid takes over. However, if the grid is down then you’ve left with no power once again. Having the battery back up means that in a time when all power isn’t working or available, as long as there is power left in your batteries you can continue using your home’s electricity.
3.GET POWER EVEN WITH OFF-GRID
There are some areas in rural Australia where there may not be accessible to a grid connection. This would also be true if you’re on a rural property and the costs involved to be connected to the grid are far out of reach. Having the option to have your own solar panels and battery backup means you never have to rely on a connection back to the grid for your energy source. You can sufficiently create your own power and backup your excess usage, ready for when you have no solar power.
4. SAVE ON YOUR ELECTRICITY COSTS
It goes without saying that if you opt-in to install a solar power system in your home with battery backup, you’re going to save quite a bit of money on your electricity costs. Instead of paying the fees that the electricity retailers want to charge you, you can be self-sufficient with your electricity generation and save hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year on your electricity bills. Believe it or not, it’s actually an affordable option to get solar systems installed into your home. While there have been government incentives in the past to install a solar system, nowadays the costs involved to install a system is outweighed by the amount of savings each year on your electricity costs. You may be surprised at how much it will cost to get your own solar power system for your home.
5.REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
Removing your home completely off the grid and making it self-sufficient is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. It used to be seen that ‘being green’ was not a reliable way of making your way through your day, especially if it came to energy sources. Newer technologies and tried and tested products have now meant that greener options like the battery backup system to your solar power are both earth-friendly while still being reliable.