Home Scale

Energy Storage can be used at home to lower costs and reduce your carbon footprint.

• Support for on-site green generation—Homes with on-site solar or wind generation can benefit from energy storage systems by allowing all the energy produced to be used to supply the home.
• Diurnal storage- Where time-of-day pricing is used, energy storage systems can be used to store energy during the night or weekends when energy prices are lower and to produce energy during the day when prices are high.

• Backup supply—Energy storage can be used to provide backup power to the entire home or for essential lighting and important appliances that you choose.

• Future possibilities—In the future, it is likely that individual utility customers will be able to participate in power markets. When this happens, it should be possible to use energy storage systems to reduce home energy costs and to sell services to the local utility.

• Peak-load shaving —For homes that face separate demand and energy charges energy storage systems can be used to reduce daily peak load and, thus, reduce demand charges.

• Energy price arbitrage—Energy storage can be used for energy price arbitrage to take advantage of differences in hourly power market prices. Besides the diurnal storage capability, energy storage can be used in any situation where significant price differences occur during the day. These price differences could occur between morning and afternoon/evening periods or between times when the system is congested (higher energy prices) and times when the system is uncongested (lower energy prices).