The Benefits of Home Battery Storage Solutions Over Fossil-Fuel Generators

Now more than ever, the home has become the foundation of our hybrid lifestyles, extending beyond just a haven for rest and relaxation in the off-hours. Most every experience that makes working from home, aging at home, or raising a family is supported by electricity, elevating the importance of reliable local power.

Traditionally, homeowners would seek out a back-up generator to provide power for critical loads in dire situations, but the evolution of home battery storage delivers clean energy alternatives for essential power and sustainable operation of the home.

In this article, we explore the benefits of selecting a home battery storage solution for your energy security over antiquated fossil-fuel generators.

Environmental Impact

The movement towards electrification, whether selecting an electric vehicle to get around town or an electric range for your kitchen, brings opportunities to lessen your environmental footprint. Home battery storage allows homeowners to prioritize renewable, clean energy over the fossil fuels  that contribute to air pollution via greenhouse gas emissions of a generator. 

Renewable Energy Integration: How Much Battery Backup Do I Need For My House? 

Homeowners now have more choice in how they power their home – the utility, of course, but also an encouraging trend towards local solar generation that helps offset the demand of the home. Home battery storage can coordinate multiple sources of power to automatically select the most efficient and effective energy source.

Energy Independence: Is Battery Storage Worth It?

Generators and home battery storage both provide a level of energy independence during power outage scenarios, but only the battery solution delivers extended benefits every other day of the year. Home battery storage not only removes any implication of variable fuel supply or fuel price volatility but can actively store any excess energy from your solar array to locally power the home when the sun goes down.

Grid Stability & Peak Shifting

Local energy solutions like home battery storage actively promote stability for the utility grid by lessening demand during peak use periods. These systems can even charge from the grid when the rates and demand are low to further reduce pressure on the aging infrastructure.

Location, Location, Location

Based on their physical size, noise and environmental impact, generators (especially the whole-home kind) are often positioned as far away from the home as possible – carefully hidden from view if the option exists. Comparatively, home battery storage solutions typically offer a smaller form factor that can be located in key utility or mechanical areas of the home. Where climate permits, they can be installed outside, but provide optimal operation in controlled environments.

Cost Efficiency: Are Solar Home Battery Storage Systems a Worthwhile Investment?

Multiple factors make home battery storage more accessible for homeowners today - the advent of federal incentives up to 30% via the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, evolving programs offered by local utilities, and the overall reduction in cost of sustainable energy components like solar modules and batteries.

The evolution of net metering programs (like NEM3.0) also make it more cost-effective for homeowners to store and use their excess solar energ for themselves in place of selling it back to the utility.

Maintenance and Care: How Long do Batteries for Home Power Storage Last?

Generators typically require regular maintenance over their lifetime to maintain performance, whereas home battery solutions require little to no service for ongoing operation. Depending on the battery chemistry, the charge performance of a home battery system will derate slightly over the lifetime of the solution while continuing to deliver powerful benefits.  

Do More With Your Power

 Savant Power Storage offers a scalable home battery solution that can deliver backup power to key circuits and loads, or scale to provide enhanced sustainability and energy efficiency for the entire home.

Load management solutions like Savant Power Modules help you manage the overall power consumption of your home. Not only does this help to reduce your electric bill, but it can help your home battery storage last longer during a power outage.

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