SunPower, a residential photo voltaic know-how and vitality providers supplier, has expanded its portfolio of vitality storage merchandise with the launch of a 19.5 kWh and 39 kWh SunVault. These new battery configurations provide elevated vitality density and maximize area throughout the battery as in comparison with earlier variations of SunVault, offering the power to retailer extra vitality right into a single field. For purchasers, this implies they will buy extra vitality storage for much less cash and match it in much less wall area, with the choice to construct a bigger system as the house’s vitality wants evolve. SunPower has additionally made design upgrades that may make SunVault sooner and simpler to put in.
“Each home-owner has distinctive vitality storage wants – some need the peace of thoughts that they will energy necessities throughout a blackout like a fridge and WiFi, whereas others need the flexibleness to additionally cost an EV or run their air con,” says Nate Coleman, chief merchandise officer at SunPower. “With these new storage sizes and better energy output by a number of inverters, SunVault’s modular configuration permits prospects to get the storage measurement they want at this time with the reassurance that they will develop their system as their dwelling vitality necessities change.”
Owners can handle their SunVault vitality storage with the mySunPower app to see how a lot vitality is on the market throughout peak-demand to order for an outage or decrease vitality prices through the use of saved vitality. Additional, all SunVault vitality storage programs are backed by a 10-year guarantee, no matter how a lot the battery is charged and drained over time.
With this launch, SunVault is now accessible in 5 configurations: 13 kWh, 19.5 kWh, 26 kWh, 39 kWh and 52 kWh. A few of these choices embrace a number of inverters. SunVault configurations with a number of inverters and storage capability of 26 kWh and extra have the potential to energy the entire dwelling, so prospects don’t have to decide on between consolation and important hundreds throughout an outage.
The brand new SunVault sizes shall be accessible starting early 2023.