Since the roll-back counter has been eliminated, it has become difficult to temporarily store your excess production from your solar panels, since the energy produced by your solar panels is already being used at the same time. Without this rollback counter, your self-consumption has also become a very important factor in the efficiency of your solar panels. Therefore, a home battery can be an interesting solutions to temporarily store the electricity generated by your solar panels during the day for later use. By installing a home battery, combined with solar panels, you can generate, store and use up to 80% of your own electricity. This is only going to increase in the future, so the possibilities are endless!
What exactly does such a home battery do?
This battery ensures that you have to take less power from the grid at times when your solar panels are not producing power themselves. In other words, an interesting way to further increase your self-consumption. To what extent this can be done, of course, depends on the size of the home battery. In such a type of battery you can thus store the solar energy that you do not need at the moment, and wish to use at a later time. When the solar panels stop generating energy, you can then draw power from your battery, which in other words is completely free!
So is such a home battery an interesting investment?
It would be convenient wouldn't it? Using free energy generated during the day with your own solar panels? An idea definitely worth exploring!
When you are not at home and it is sunny, your solar panels continuously produce "free" electricity that you are not using at that time anyway. In contrast, at night, when you need electricity, you draw it from the grid and thus pay for it. Those considering installing such a home battery can recover all this "lost" energy afterwards when you really need it. The only downside to such a home battery is that you do have to pay a considerable amount of money to purchase such a device.
Still something to think about so ... maybe we should go over all the benefits 😉
Advantages of a home battery
For starters, such a battery is obviously good for the environment. The less electricity has to be generated from exhaustible sources, the better for the environment. The shorter you make the energy chain, the better it is for the environment. Due to the fact that with a home battery you can produce up to 70% of your own energy, you reduce your own carbon footprint. So it's a win-win for the climate and your own budget.
In addition, as discussed earlier, it is also very beneficial to your wallet. When you can save all the energy you generate for when you really need it, you have much less need of energy from your energy supplier. In other words, you have much less need of energy for which you have to pay, with the result that you suffer much less from those divisive price increases for your energy. As everyone again, energy is becoming virtually unaffordable these days. So would you rather not be surprised by the new peak load? Then installing a home battery is the best possible option.
Then there's also the fact that you can double the efficiency of your own solar panels. All the excess energy you produce during off-peak hours is easily stored to be used during peak hours. As a result, you can get up to 30-40% more efficiency from your solar panels and use less grid power.
Finally, you also benefit from attractive premiums. If you have a home battery installed in 2022, you will receive a nice premium from the Flemish Government. That way, you can save up to €1,725 and up to 40% of the bill amount.
After all this information, do you still have doubts about installing a home battery? Then contact us without any obligation and find the best solution with us!
