WHAT IS ‘HYBRID SOLAR’?
A hybrid solar power system combines solar power with battery power to provide power to your house or business. The hybrid system stores the energy in batteries during a low energy consumption period and fetches from batteries during peak consumption periods or at night time.
Working of Hybrid Solar:
A hybrid system generates electricity from sunlight like any normal solar power system and any excess electricity is stored in the batteries. Once the batteries are fully charged, the system starts to feed the excess electricity into the grid.
At night time, when solar energy is not generated, your home or business will start using the battery as a source of energy instead of the grid. If you need more energy than supplied by the battery, you are always connected to the grid for supply.
You get a constant supply of electricity at fraction of cost, excellent return of investment, and Based on your daily consumption, and beat the feed-in limits.
WHAT IS A BATTERY-READY SYSTEM?
A battery-ready system uses a hybrid inverter instead of a common solar inverter. Most of the modern hybrid inverters have built-in chargers and connectors which makes it easy to add batteries in the future. It is important to note that hybrid inverters are expensive and need compatible batteries to work seamlessly.
WHY STORE SOLAR ENERGY IN A BATTERY?
You may already know that many governments and distributors have cut the feed-in-tariff incentive. This has made the traditional system less profitable. A hybrid solar system stores the excess electricity during the day in batteries and provides electricity at night.
The ability to use solar energy when desired is termed self-use or self-consumption. It works like an off-grid system but the required battery size is much smaller.
LG
LG Solar Battery is compact lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) technology batter. The advantage of the LG Solar battery is that it can be used for off-grid and hybrid setups. The battery comes in multiple ranges – ranging in capacity from 6.5kWh to 13kWh. The LG Chem Resu batteries can be floor or wall-mounted LG Chem Resu is economical and safe and doesn’t need any ongoing maintenance.
The battery solution comes with a smartphone app for monitoring and management and the capacity of the system can be expanded by adding another LG RESU battery.
SolaX
SolaX , is traditionally an inverter producer however they have invested heavily in battery storage solutions. Solax has high efficiency ratings, with a 10 Year warrantied lifetime, with a guaranteed original capacity for charging.
They also offer Plug & Play solutions to allow expandability if the end consumers wishes to expand their energy requirements.
AlphaESS Battery
AlphaESS is a Chinese manufacturer of energy storage systems focused on residential and commercial markets around the world. AlphaESS battery consists of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), as the cathode material and its anodes are carbon. This is different from Lithium-Ion batteries such as the Tesla Solar batteries. Energy Storage System(ESS) stores electric energy and utilizes them for later consumption. It is purposed to improve energy efficiency, by enhancing the quality of renewable energy that results in stabilization of the power supply system.
The AlphaESS storage solution covers single phase 3 kW, 5 kW, and three-phase 10 kW, this range is predominantly designed for PV self-consumption, back-up power, load shifting, and off-grid solutions for household applications.
