I'm in a real quandary. I own my solar panels outright, haven't paid the grid directly since March of '18 as the net metering credits just keep rolling over. It's all good. I love the idea of backup batteries for the event of a power failure, but my home may have had 4 or 5 outages in 26 years. It's such a rare occurrence that paying for the batteries may be a waste of money because they won't be used. As well, I could go the route of natural gas whole house generator but, even then, the likelihood of needing it versus the cost of it doesn't work for me. I almost wish I was in an area that suffers periodic power outages to justify buying the batteries. That's the dilemma. Buy them but don't hardly ever need them or suffer the very rare power failure for the few hours that it happens.
Wow, you must be on a pretty good FiT rate! Unfortunately, most domestic systems will also shut down during a power outage as it's dangerous to feed electricity onto the grid if people are out fixing something. May be worth looking at when your FiT ends and you cam hook up to a SEG that helps you fill your batteries and power your home.
@@solarfastuk What is FiT and SEG? I could afford the batteries but feel that I would hardly ever have the use for them, so they would be a waste of money. As I said, my home rarely ever has a power outage.
@@Royale_with_Cheeze are you in the UK? FiT was the previous scheme for selling excess power back to the grid - SEGs are the replacement and you can us them to fill your batteries up to save money.
