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Battery Storage Darlington & the North East
We install battery storage in Darlington, Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, York, Middlesbrough, Harrogate and surrounding areas. Get a quote for battery storage in your area and get in touch with our Darlington team.
Key Features
Making the Most of Solar Power
Battery Units Darlington & the North East
You can benefit from adding battery storage if you already have solar panels. Battery storage enables you to utilise most of your power before it is exported back to the grid. While you can make money off of exporting your power, batteries mean that you can store energy to use later, at peak hours. It’s just one more way to save money and reduce your carbon footprint.
Supplemental Power
Solar batteries are a supplemental technology to solar panels. If you’re interested in solar, you probably know that multiple schemes allow you to sell your energy back to utility companies. Each company has different requirements and different rates that they’ll pay for energy.
Before battery storage, homeowners had to use their energy immediately or sell it back to power companies. However, peak hours for solar energy production are often midday, when many people are at work.
Since homeowners pay more for energy use than they do selling it back to suppliers, this meant paying more for energy even as you generated it. Now, with battery storage, you can use energy that you’ve generated later when it’s more convenient.
Off Peak Hours for Battery Storage
Octopus Energy and other energy companies have recently worked to incentivise users to reduce their energy usage during peak hours. They have experimented by asking people to stop using energy between 9 am to 11 am or 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm.
These schemes are subject to change, but we know that these hours are also when most households use energy, especially during winter. So using your battery during these times can be beneficial later down the line.
Tariffs & The Future of Battery Storage
In the past, there have been tariffs like Economy 7 and Economy 10. These tariffs are useful for those who can use energy at night. It’s worth checking with energy suppliers around Darlington and Newcastle to see if they still offer these tariffs or something similar like the Off-Peak E, F, or Fx tariffs.
Unfortunately, you can’t export battery-stored energy back to the grid. Most energy companies only accept DC, and once the energy has been stored in your battery it has already been converted to AC.
That’s why we recommend that you use stored energy from your battery during peak hours. With various tools, you can set when you choose to store your energy or when you want to send it to the grid.
Battery Storage Cost Darlington & the North East
Find prices for our battery storage units in Darlington, Newcastle and surrounding areas. Our Darlington team can help you with the information for our battery storage. We also look forward to speaking with you in detail about the utility of battery storage in your home.
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Learn More
If you’re interested learning more about batteries, and our suppliers in particular, read more. We provide some useful information so that you can understand the technical details.
However, you wish to speak with one of our team, simply call us on 0800 6524102 or use our online contact form.
What’s the difference between solar and regular batteries?
Most batteries you use in your daily life are lead acid batteries. Solar batteries are mostly made with lithium iron phosphate or lithium ion technology, which is longer lasting and performs better. The expected lifespan of a lithium ion battery is roughly 20 years. Our suppliers are Pylon, Fox and LG.
What Does a Kilowatt Hour Mean?
It’s difficult to understand the complexity of battery storage. Many specifications list kWh, as well as energy capacity versus usable capacity. Here’s a brief breakdown of some of our terms.
A kilowatt is equivalent to 1000 watts. So a Kilowatt hour means the use of 1000 kilowatts per hour. It’s usually signified as kWh. With a smart meter, it’s easy to see how much energy you use per hour.
When you get your next battery storage unit, you’ll be able to use the energy from your renewable energy source and export energy during peak hours.
Pylon Batteries
We install several different Pylon battery storage units, including their residential line. We appreciate this solar battery for its compact size, reliable performance and ten year warranty.
- Total capacity: 2.4 to 4.8 kWh depending on model
- Usable capacity: 2.2 to 2.5 kWh
- 22.5 to 39.7kg
Fox Batteries
One of the best benefits of these batteries is that they can operate at lower temperatures. They can operate between -10° – 50°.
- These solar batteries provide 2.56 kWh capacity
- 90% Depth of discharge
- Wide temperature tolerance
- Easy installation
- High voltage
- Extremely lightweight at 4.5 kg
LG Batteries
The LG Chem RESU is a little bit heavier than other models. However, that’s because this battery storage unit uses a lithium ion battery, one of the best on the market.
- Industry leader
- Lightweight design compared to other lithium ion units
- 4.2 kW for RESU 6.5 with 95% efficiency[MP1]
- 80% capacity retention after ten years (others on the market have 60-70% capacity after ten years)
- 9.8 kWh total capacity vs usable capacity of 9.3 kWh
