The segment of the solar industry that’s shown the most activity and interest over the past few years has been “storage.” We’ve received a lot of interest in this subject, and that makes sense. There are thousands of residential solar systems installed in the past 10 years, and the owners want to explore the option of adding battery backup for times…
Category: Battery Backup
Storage Options for Solar Owners - West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania
This post addresses two storage system designs we continue to get inquiries on as we head into the home stretch for 2017: The SolarEdge StorEdge 7600 with the LG battery, and the relative merits of AC Coupling for adding batteries to a legacy ( existing) solar system. The SolarEdge/LG Battery System Each month, we…
SolarEdge’s StorEdge Inverter and the LG Battery System: Just the Facts
From residential to utility scale, storage is one of the biggest issues in the solar world. Technologies are evolving, and there will be many changes over the coming months and years In our area, the recent big news seems to be the SolarEdge System – StorEdge Inverter coupled with the LG lithium-Ion battery. At least…
Solar Systems and Storage – What you need to know
If there’s more common buzzword in the solar industry today than storage, I don’t know what it would be. As is the case with many terms in the solar world, storage can mean different things – depending on who’s using it. In its most basic use, storage means electric potential stored in a battery…
Before you buy a solar system, ask the installer these questions:
There’s only one reason I can think of why anybody would take on the serious safety and long-term production risks of having an inexperienced installation company, or one using a group of trainees, install their solar system. That reason is, they may not know what to ask about, besides price. And when safety and structural integrity…