At Avolta Energy we are getting more and more inquiries from homeowners that are seeing more and more big storms coming into Central America, and they want to find out how they can power their homes, and keep their refrigerators and internet going in the event of a power outage caused by one of these storms. Lithium-ion home batteries are lighting up the residential battery storage market due to: low cost, long battery life, low space requirement, fast charging, and safety record. Add on Central America’s expensive energy prices and it’s easy to see why residential battery storage is set to have a moment.
Residential Batteries: Affordable and Reliable Energy
Avolta Energy offers several residential battery storage solutions, now including the brand new sonnenCore battery from our partner sonnen. This is a significant development in the home battery market as it is a sleek, intelligent, almost-silent package at an affordable price.
sonnen was founded 10 years ago in Germany and has sold more than 60,000 home storage batteries; it is now one of the world’s largest manufacturers of energy storage. Since its inception, the cost of these units has fallen by as much as 80%.
Just imagine you had the chance to take your energy future into your own hands. sonnen integrates with any solar system, protects your home from outages before they happen, and stores energy for when you need it. –
The sonnenBatterie is not just a battery, it’s an intelligent storage system that automatically adjusts the energy usage in your household. Using solar panels, the sonnenBatterie enables you to supply yourself with clean energy – thus making you independent and protecting you from energy price hikes.
Sonnen Battery Storage: an Investment Built to Produce and Last
The sonnenCore home battery system comes with a 10 year, 10,000 cycle warranty with a total guaranteed energy throughput of 58 Mwh, which is 5x most of the competition. sonnen can offer this kind of exceptional warranty because of their superior battery cell chemistry (li-ion phosphate) and their superb battery management software.
The length of the warranty really puts the sonnenCore head and shoulders above the competition for residential energy storage options. Other players are beginning to market in residential batteries but the sonnenCore is actually available in real life.
Introducing sonnen’s newest compact battery solution for emergency backup power and greater peace of mind for every home.
Economic. Intelligent. Long-lasting.
sonnenCore offers a truly unique proposition: a battery that is designed to increase your self-consumption of solar energy every day, that offers a way backup your essential loads, and that does this all at a truly game-changing price-point from $13,000 installed in Costa Rica.
The sonnenCore can be paired with solar panels to allow you to harness the sun and store the energy to use later. It also can be used for load shifting. What does load shifting mean? Some residential utility bills charge different amounts for energy during different times of the day. Load shifting means that the battery can be programmed to charge when your power prices are low, often at night, and discharge during higher price periods.
sonnenCore is also there during a power outage. The sonnenCore is designed to fuel and protect your home essentials rechargeable battery power. You decide what energy usage is key to your family such as the refrigerator, freezer, internet, lights, kitchen outlets, and bathroom. Unlike generators, sonnenCore is designed to be clean, quiet and maintenance-free. No fuel or noise to contend with simply clean, quiet energy that is not fossil fuel reliant, the sonnenCore is a zero emissions system.
A Silent Backup That Doesn’t Pollute
Unlike a diesel generator, the sonnenCore has a noise rating of less than 25 decibels, which is akin to a soft whisper. And, the sonnenCore automatically responds to a power outage in under one second. Although a home battery like the sonnenCore is not the same as an uninterruptible power supply, most people perceive only a barely perceptible flicker in their lights.
The sonnenCore has an integrated 35 amp ATS, which can provide full backup to a smaller house; it is not intended to keep air conditioning, pool pumps and other energy intensive loads running. It is intended to provide a seamless switch that ensures your most critical home energy needs are backed up and continue running.
With sonnenCore, lower your carbon footprint while lowering your electricity costs- especially during peak demand periods.
For Energy Management and Optimization : the Eco or EcoLinx
In partnership with sonnen, we will also continue to offer the eco or ecoLinx. These batteries can support greater energy loads (although to be clear: neither is designed to carry all the loads in a large home). Both have a 200amp ATS so they adeptly and powerfully support increased amounts of peak usage. Unlike the sonnenCore, both eco and ecoLinx can integrate a generator to create a nano-grid for your home.
A Home Battery Made Smart: EcoLinx
The ecoLinx represents the most advanced home energy management solution the world has ever known. Capacity is robust with sizes from 12 to 20 or even 30 kWh and includes a free 15 year/15,000 cycle warranty, the ecoLinx is a residential battery with brawn. Like the sonnenCore, ecoLinx offers less than 1 second response time when there is an outage.
The ecoLinx not only provides powerful outage protection, its intelligent systems allow you to maximize your savings by leveraging the smartest of technologies that makes the ecoLinx an integrated smart home energy management system.
With Smart Weather Forecasting, the ecoLinx home automation platform detects severe weather and automatically increase your battery reserve. With two major hurricanes slamming Central America within two weeks delivering catastrophic winds, resiliency is not a luxury.
The Smart Demand Control system allows you to turn whole circuits on and off allowing you to curate your energy usage. Smart Configurable Backup allows you to extend your battery’s life by adjusting what is backed up in an emergency. Like sonnenCore, the ecoLinx can be paired with solar to harvest and discharge smart and renewable energy.
sonnen eco: Powerful. Flexible. Smart.
sonnen’s eco detects power outages and can analyze your energy usage to help you optimize your energy management. With 7 sizes to choose from, there is a specification to meet your need. Dressed in a sleek white box, the eco comes as small as a 5 kWh to a 20 kWh capacity. The warranty is for 10,000 cycles or 10 years.
sonnen’s eco offers the best value for creating a nano-grid. Unlike the sonnenCore, the eco can integrate a generator in order to create a nano-grid for truly resilient living. And, with an 8kW inverter, the eco supports nearly twice the load of the sonnenCore putting it in a different class. However, unlike the sonnenCore and ecoLinx, the eco may take around 30 seconds to switch from grid-connected mode to off-grid/backup mode.
100% Recyclable. Smart. Reliable. Sonnen Residential Storage.
If you want to find out more about your energy storage options, for your home or business, get in touch with Avolta Energy and let us help you keep your lights on whatever the weather does and no matter how expensive electricity becomes.