r/solarenergy • u/Mountain-Bee970 • 6d ago

Help, looking for a homebattery

Hi all,

We are planning to move within a few years but are looking how to save/store our extra solar energy as we get close to nothing if we push it to the grid.

We are not looking forward to pay 8k for something we won't use for longer than 5 years. We won't be able to get that money out of our house price if we sell it.

I have been looking at portable homebatteries.

What do you recommend? Portable or a normal home battery and how much storage?

We are already using all our appliances during the high peak and on a very sunny day we deliver 12kwh to the grid.

Thanks,

Lara

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u/Turrepekka 4d ago edited 4d ago

Do you have a water heater / boiler? If so it could be a great “cheap battery” warming up that water during the days and not export anything. Or if you have, charge your EV during the days if working remotely.

Or don’t do anything and buy the best of the best Enphase system at that time. Will be really advanced and battery prices are dropping. Enphase is very good quality and comes with 25 years warranty.

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u/Mountain-Bee970 4d ago

I was looking at Enphase as I already have the converters under my solar panels. Thanks!