How Big a Battery? A question we often hear at Tanjent is ‘How Big a Home Battery Do I Need?' Or else 'What home battery storage size is right for my family?' Which IS a great question, just one that is not as straightforward as it would seem, to answer. Most of us have
The issues and options for connecting a charger to solar.
Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Already today, 53 percent of about 41 million buildings included in the analysis could theoretically go off-grid and have a fully
Solis Inverter Settings If you have had a Solis inverter installed - either a hybrid solar inverter or an AC battery inverter - you will likely have found that you have to make most setting changes through the screen of the inverter. This is because the online interface for the inverter generally only shows
The pros and cons of different home battery storage systems.
Solis Inverter Overnight Charging Lots of our customers who have a hybrid solar inverter or a home battery system also have access to a cheap time-of-use electricity tariff (for example Economy 7 or Octopus Go) that has a cheap rate overnight. It is then possible for them to charge up their battery on this
How to protect a home battery from the effects of the cold.
The UK has installed more solar power systems in 2023 than in all of 2022, according to data from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), which accredits PV, wind and micro-CHP installations up to 50kW. Trade body Solar Energy UK (SEUK) said the data showed a new annual record for 2023 with 138,336 solar PV installations since
The cost of solar power has fallen by 87%, and battery storage by 85% in the past decade, according to a new study – here’s why. Berlin-based scientific think tank Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) has released a new study in the journal Energy Research & Social Science in which the researchers compared
The behaviour of solar and battery systems is complex, and not always obvious.