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Battery Backup

What is Solar + Battery Storage and How Does it Work?

Solar and battery storage offers a unique way to maximize your system’s financials, avoid power outages, and provide peace of mind. With solar and batteries paired, you can charge the batteries with excess solar generation during the day, and power your home from that stored energy during the night.

Benefits of Battery Integration

  • Energy Continuity
  • Maximise Solar Performance
  • Safe Battery Chemistry (LFP)
  • Device Management
  • Grid Resiliency

Solar + Storage Configurations

If you are experiencing frequent grid outages and have critical operations or perishables that always require power.

By storing excess solar production during the day and utilizing it at night, you're maximizing financials by avoiding partial credits for what would normally be sent back to the grid.

By adding an additional battery to the system, you're able to leverage self-metering while having extra storage to provide confort at any time of the day. With all other aspects of the project already accounted for, the cost of adding an additional battery is rather favorable.

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    Battery

    Ilumen Solar offers a wide variety of battery options to fit your back up needs.

    Franlin Battery

    Franklin aPower 2

    Chemistry

    Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP)

    Nomimal Rating

    15kWh

    Maximum Continuous Discharge

    10kW AC

    Warranty

    15 Year/60 MWh

    Heavy Load Start

    185 LRA

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    Enphase IQ Battery 10C

    Chemistry

    Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP)

    Nomimal Rating

    10kWh

    Maximum Continuous Discharge

    7.08kW AC

    Warranty

    15 Year

    Heavy Load Start

    90 LRA

    Tesla Powerwall

    Tesla Powerwall 3

    Chemistry

    Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP)

    Nomimal Rating

    13.5kWh

    Maximum Continuous Discharge

    11.5kW AC

    Warranty

    10 Year

    Heavy Load Start

    185 LRA

    Solar and battery storage offers a unique way to maximize your solar system’s grid independence and protect yourself from the dangers of power outages. With solar and batteries paired, you can charge the batteries with excess solar generation during the day, and power your home from that stored energy during the night.

    Benefits:

    • Batteries can be configured to provide home backup in times of need, engage in energy arbitrage to maximize hourly pricing peaks and valleys, or a combination of both.
    • Power critical loads such as perishables, kitchen utilities and internet when the power goes out with partial home backup.
    • Maximize your solar systems performance with full battery backup storing all excess generation for on site use.

    Incentives:

    • Both stand-alone batteries and solar paired batteries qualify for the 30% Federal Tax Credits and all applicable IRA adders
    • Batteries qualify for the ComEd Storage Rebate, offering $300/kWh of storage capacity
    • The ComEd Storage Rebate is available even to legacy net metering customers who are looking to add batteries to their existing home solar system.
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