"When you adopt solar in storage, you will be able to reduce your bill and produce bill savings. And that at the very least, these bill savings can help pay the system for its cost of installation and maintenance. And once it pays for itself, whenever you have an outage. Since solar and batteries can store energy and release them as you're utilizing them during the day, they can provide a backup for your critical loads,"
"Yeah, the solar array is on the rooftop, and it has an inverter,"
"And if we can control the power of a water heater, that can provide a lot of useful flexibility to the grid,"
Residential solar panels paired with battery storage can reduce electricity bills for roughly 60% of households by about 15%, producing savings that can cover installation and maintenance costs over time. Solar-plus-storage systems can store daytime generation and supply critical loads during outages, providing backup power. High-resolution home energy measurements reveal appliance-level usage and opportunities for grid-support through controllable loads. Controlling devices such as water heaters offers flexibility to the grid. Models used granular data from roughly 500,000 households and included system components like rooftop arrays and inverters for realistic cost-benefit estimates.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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