Residential solar power with a hybrid system

A Hybrid Solar System is very much the same as a Grid Connected Solar system, with the addition of battery storage.
Most homes in New Zealand are connected to the national electricity grid. By adding PV (photovoltaic) solar panels to your home, you can generate direct current (DC) energy from the sun. This energy is then converted from DC electricity into AC (alternating current) electricity suitable for ordinary household use, by an inverter.

Houses with a Hybrid Solar System consume the solar power first, and any excess solar energy is then used to charge the battery bank. Once the battery bank is full, any excess solar energy can be sold to the grid. When there is little or no solar energy available, the household will draw energy from the battery bank. Once that is depleted, power will be purchased from the national electricity grid as usual. Another feature of our Hybrid Solar systems is the ability to provide energy to essential circuits during a power outage.

Some recent hybrid solar installations