Keep your own solar

Home battery storage

Larger batteries that store your solar power for the evening. From plug-in balcony units to modular home storage you expand step by step.

Home battery storage keeps the electricity your panels produce around midday so you can use it yourself in the evening instead of exporting it. Prepz carries two kinds: plug-in and balcony batteries you install yourself behind a socket or a balcony array, and larger modular systems you expand one module at a time. Look at usable capacity in kilowatt-hours, charge and discharge power, and whether the system can keep supplying during a grid outage. Anything wired into the consumer unit is a job for a qualified installer.

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Start from your evening consumption, not from the biggest battery. Work out how many kilowatt-hours you use between sunset and the next morning; for many households that is a few kilowatt-hours. A battery sized roughly to that figure fills and empties every day, which is exactly what you want. If you also want lighting, internet and a heating pump during an outage, choose a system with a backup output and check how much power that output delivers. Plug-in models are the quickest step and move house with you, while modular systems cost more per module but grow with your usage. If the wiring is unclear, involve an installer.

Frequently asked questions

A power station is portable and supplies power through its own sockets. A home battery stays in place, is larger and works together with your solar array or house installation. Take a power station for travel and short bridging, and a home battery for storing solar power every day.

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