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Battery Back-Up
- Home owners and businesses today are considering adding battery power. During an outage, our "battery-backup" systems automatically disconnect from the grid and power your home with standby battery power.
- Battery back-up is a modest system, perfect for people who are powered from the grid (the utility) but want to be prepared for power outages. You may choose a small system to back-up the most important appliances that need electricity at all times. Back-up systems are different from Off-grid systems; which are for people with no utility service.
Off-Grid
- An Off-grid system is a more robust battery system, designed to power your entire home year after year.
- An Off-grid system can prevent having to pay thousands in initial wiring foundation costs that has for some of our clients surpassed the costs of an entire solar system.
- Batteries for off grid is to avoid a house from having to be grid tied; but can also be used to offset demand charges and high electricity charges at specific times of the day.
String Inverters VS Micro-Inverters
Our experts have found that the right selection of inverter combined with the right solar panels proves to be the most important feature of a solar system design.
- Inverters: All solar panels generate DC (direct current) that needs to be converted to AC (alternating current) for use in homes and businesses. The main function of an inverter is to convert the solar panel current from DC to AC.
- Some companies use a large string inverter that is installed in a home garage or basement. Other companies use micro-inverters that are installed under each solar panel. Our experts have found installing micro-inverters on each panel not only increases failure points but they also have high failure ratings due to being exposed to harsh weather conditions.
- Optimizers: On solar systems designed using a string-inverter, optimizers were once needed to be installed under each solar panel as a solution to the power production loss of all panels due to just one panel's exposure to partial shading. Optimizers on each panel not only increases failure points but they also have high failure ratings due to being exposed to harsh weather conditions. Our high-tech Solaria panels have substring technology for optimization; therefore in our solar system designs the need to install micro-inverters or optimizers has become obsolete.
Hudson River Solar offers the best battery system components in the world!
Solark Vs Tesla's Powerwall
Tesla’s home lithium battery system (PowerWall3) is just not practial or flexible compared to our more advanced hybrid energy system.
(Link to Sol-Ark Inverter technical details)- Our hybrid system fully integrates with any backup generator for extra power security. The Tesla does not even support a generator!
- Our system can also use many different brands. types and sizes of battery, Tesla allows only its proprietary Tesla batteries which are large, heavy, and more expensive. The Tesla is limited to 40 kWh of storage (not even enough for a full day) whereas we can add hundreds of kWh of storage if you like. The only way to expand battery capacity is to add 1 or 2 PowerWall 13.5 kW expanders to the system. (2 max)
- To increase the power output, another entire Tesla Powerwall3 with 13 KWh of added batteries would need to be purchased and installed ; as opposed to our system just adding another hybrid inverter unit will double the continuous power output. (Link to Sol-Ark Inverter technical details)
- Our systems do not require a "gateway" box or other various adaptors, so our installations are much simpler and cleaner and more reliable.
- Our lithium battery offerings are very safe, lower cost, MUCH easier to expand (some only take a couple of minutes with no cabling or wiring needed), and ours include informative displays to actually see the battery status at a glance. Our batteries come in various mounting options, floor cabinets (stackable), wall mounted boxes, modular server rack types, outdoor, indoor, to suit your home situation. Tesla only has one wall option. (Link to Sol-Ark Battery technical details)
At Hudson River Solar, we take a different approach to solar using our advanced hybrid technology, which is more efficient, simpler, and much more reliable than others. Our system brings a major life change, as you will now be confidently energy self-sufficient and energy-aware and no longer paralyzed if the utility power fails. Our system does not simply reduce your bill, it smartly manages all the energy sources for your home and also manages the major energy consuming devices in your home to reduce cost. During a prolonged power outage, your home will continue to operate normally, and any unnecessary items will be automatically turned off to prevent waste. Due to our integrated energy manager, we can size our systems smaller to power just a few important appliances needed during a power outage. You can even run your home off-grid permanently - we have many happy customers who have "cut the wires" and have no more bills. Our advanced energy system is managed by Savant, which is easy to use and works well even if your Internet service or utility power is down.
Businesses use our solar+battery systems to greatly reduce high demand charges on their bill, and also save electric costs by using lower cost nighttime energy. The battery system also keeps security systems, lighting, heating/cooling, and critical equipment operating uninterrupted during outages. We can add batteries to an existing solar system, or quote a new solar array to perfectly accompany your battery backup or off-grid battery storage system.
Hudson River Solar on National TV's "Building Off the Grid"
(Discovery Channel Episode aired Thursday, March 5th, 2020 "Hudson Valley Retreat")
Peter and Ashley Jensen build a sustainable straw bale panel house in the Hudson Valley -- the first of its kind in the States. www.ahealthybuilding.com
