Batteries
A battery ages while it sits, not only while it works
Calendar ageing runs in parallel with cycle ageing, which means an underused battery still loses capacity…
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Batteries
Storage chemistry, cycles and whether a battery pays for itself.
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Batteries
A storage system draws power simply to stay awake
Management electronics, conversion hardware and cooling all consume a little continuously, and on a lightly…
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Batteries
Filling a battery from the grid is a different proposition entirely
Storage without solar earns by moving consumption from an expensive period to a cheap one, which makes the…
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Batteries
Coupling a battery on the direct-current side is a different machine
A battery can join a solar system before the inverter or after it, and the choice decides how many…
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Batteries
What becomes of a home battery once it stops being useful
A worn storage unit is a heavy assembly of valuable metals inside a casing designed never to be opened, and…
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Batteries
The mode a battery is left in matters more than another kilowatt-hour
Storage hardware is inert without a control strategy, and the default strategy shipped in the box is…
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Batteries
Handing control of your battery to somebody else
Aggregators pay households to let a remote operator charge and discharge their storage on the network’s…
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Batteries
Leaving the grid entirely is a winter problem, not a battery problem
Disconnecting from the network means sizing storage against the worst week of the year rather than the…
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