Can you use solar panels without battery
You don’t have to store excess energy but you can. It is possible to use solar panels without battery, people who rely half on net-metering and half on battery consumption are considered a hybrid audience for being ‘on-grid’. Most people who have solar and do not use batteries, are putting electricity back onto the ‘on-grid’ 100% solar solutions that you would get standard. However, you can choose a hybrid strategy that allows you to connect to the grid and store battery at the same time.
What is happening to your excess power if you are connected to the grid?
“The number of days that California dumped its unused solar electricity would have been even higher if the state hadn’t ordered some solar plants to reduce production — even as natural gas power plants, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, continued generating electricity.”
You can connect your solar panels directly to a DC load (perhaps requiring a voltage regulator, depending on your load).
Or, you can connect panels to a non-grid-tied DC-to-AC inverter, and drive an AC load directly.
In CA, new homes will mandate solar incorporated in their construction, so it can be said that this use of renewable energy, will in the long haul, put electricity back into the city, which is where net metering comes in.
Net metering lets solar users get paid for the energy they provide to the grid.
How to assess the value of your solar system
Learn more about how you can adapt to solar, I work at HahaSmart, so I do not necessarily want to come across as to forth coming, but you should learn how much solar will cost you to adapt to your home…
Use the price checker tools on the site to learn more. The HahaSmart price-checker tool will allow you to choose batteries if you are interested in being in this ‘hybrid on-grid’ model of using solar.