
Every unit that leaves your property earns you a small Smart Export Guarantee payment. But every unit you later buy back from the grid costs considerably more. A battery storage solution in Burntwood ends that one-sided exchange. Your surplus energy stays home, charges your battery, and powers your household through the high-demand hours of the day.
A battery storage system quietly replaces expensive grid electricity with your own stored power — automatically, in the background. Burntwood families running the same household as before simply find their bills noticeably smaller when the statement arrives.
When one hits your street in Burntwood, a battery-equipped home keeps running without a flicker. Stored energy takes over the moment grid supply drops. Your heating stays on. Your fridge stays cold. Your broadband stays connected. For families with young children or anyone working from home, that continuity genuinely matters.
Without a battery, you're achieving only part of that goal. The solar panels generate clean energy — but much of it gets wasted on the grid before it can benefit your home. Battery storage completes the picture. It ensures your roof's output is actually used by the household it was installed to serve.
We don't send our engineers in with sales targets or upsell quotas. When we visit your Burntwood home, we assess what you actually need and recommend accordingly. If a smaller system will do the job, we'll tell you. If a larger one is worth it, we'll explain why. Honest advice — every time, without exception.
Our process is built around making battery storage as simple as possible for Burntwood homeowners. Here’s what you can expect.
In most cases, yes. Older solar installations — even those fitted 8 to 10 years ago — can typically accommodate a retrofit battery through an AC-coupled configuration. The key factor is your existing inverter type, which our engineer assesses during the free home visit. Very few Burntwood solar setups are genuinely incompatible with battery storage.
Significantly. If you’re on a tariff that charges different rates at different times of day — such as Economy 7 or smart tariffs like Octopus Go — your battery management system can be configured to charge overnight during the cheapest rate period and discharge during expensive daytime and evening hours. Combined with solar charging during the day, this approach maximises savings throughout the year, including in winter when solar generation is lower.
We recommend an annual service to keep your system performing at its best. During a service visit, we check all electrical connections, review system performance data, apply any available firmware updates, and confirm the battery is operating within its optimal parameters. Most Burntwood customers schedule their first service around 12 months after installation. It’s a straightforward visit — typically completed within an hour.
Yes, provided there is suitable wall space for the battery unit — typically in a hallway cupboard, kitchen area, or under the stairs. Terraced properties in Burntwood are among the most common installations we carry out. The absence of a garage is rarely a barrier. Our engineer will identify the best installation location during the free home visit and confirm suitability before any commitment is made.
Modern battery storage systems include automatic islanding protection — meaning they detect a grid failure instantly and switch your home to stored power without any manual input. The transition happens in milliseconds. From your perspective inside the home, nothing changes. Lights stay on. Appliances keep running. The system returns to normal grid operation automatically once supply is restored.
