Top 5 Best Solar Batteries in 2024

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In this video, Joe presents his top 5 solar batteries for 2024:

5. @SolarEdgeTechnologies Home Battery
4. @EnphaseEnergy IQ Battery 5P
3. @PointGuardenergy Home Battery
2. @tesla Powerwall 3
1. @FranklinWHEnergyStorageInc aPower 2

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[ryanschwarz]

Eg4 wall mount battery, 14.3 k for only $3300. Battery has a heater, fire arrester, and digital display. Paired with an 18kpv hybrid inverter. Fully permittable and code compliant and can be ac or dc coupled or both at the same time.

[stevenfrazier]

EG4-WallMount Indoor Battery | 48V 280Ah | 14.3kWh | Indoor | Heated UL1973, UL9540A | 10-Year Warranty $3, 299.00

[davelindgren]

I have 33KW of the older Enphase batteries. It has been solid as a rock.
I wanted to add batteries to my other 200 AMP panel.
Enphase told me that the old batteries and the new batteries can not be installed in the same house. Something about the signals crossing.
I'm going with Franklin because of that.

[michaelrobertson]

I tried to purchase 4 Tesla Powerwall batteries, and Tesla referred me to a local installer. Tesla advertised a cost of $5, 000 for the installation, but the local installer quoted me $30, 000 for the one-day installation plus the cost for the batteries, $56, 000 total.

[SonoCars]

Going with Pointguard. Hoping its as reliable long-term.

[davidstein]

For those of us considering a retro fit battery installation, can you do a head to head comparison of the Franklin WH and the Pointguard batteries?

[SPdesi]

Thank you Joe Ordia, I learned lot from all your very informative 104 Battery videos.

[saf]

Hi Solar Surge. Thank you for taking the time to release this. Informative although I personally do not care for "best" video content as it can be subjective and opinionated. I do not mean that disrespectful just hard to quantify in the 14 minutes allocated. Which is the reason for my reply. The pacing seemed off to me. The beginning seemed to have more time allocated to each battery compared to the end. It seemed rushed towards the end like you wanted to wrap it up. I also don't think you touched upon expandability or if that was a factor - I would have thought that to be important.

Lastly while I am not a daily content consumer on social media the one thing I am personally looking to be educated on is how I can expand my current solar system. Options like how we can expand, or change panels, add storage, factor in electric car or two if guests visit, and what can be done by home owner (me) and contract out. I agree with you that the Solar market is a lot like the early computer days with no standards. Solar needs standards for communication and inter connectivity. I'd love to buy a tesla power wall and add some additional panels to my current system but so many options without clear processes makes it not user friendly. Anyway keep up the good work.

[timworden]

Hi, Can you do a review on the EG4 line of inverters and batteries?

[sundollarsolar]

The Savant was the first fully integrated hybrid battery/pv inverter combination, and it has a built-in 100A transfer switch. Tesla still requires the gateway or meter adapter just to turn on, as does Franklin.

[bobedsall]

EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra? Modular. Expandable. Battery, solar, grid and standby generator tie-in (with Smart Home Panel 2 or manual transfer switch). No net metering but rumors are that it's coming. What's not to like?

[garylpretty]

In my opinion, Enphase and Solar Edge shouldn't have made the list. Their anemic continuous power output is my reason. EG4, Homegrid, and Fortress Power (Avalon) are worth at least an honorable mention. Every system on this list should be able to scale to whole home backup. In addition, cost should be a consideration, all other things being close in the evaluation.

[jonathanmeyers]

Joe: before this Top 5 video, I watched your interview at ESS about the GENERAC PWRcell 2 which just posted yesterday. How would that rank in your top 5?

[DHDSoft]

Hey! Did you intentionally forgot Canadian Solar EP Cube?

[nonexistent]

EP Cube should be on this list. Great value.

[finned]

I’m surprised EG4 and Anker Solix aren’t on the list. I will consider Franklin and Tesla some more.

[allsolartexas]

Great summary, Joe! I agree with you completely. Keep up the great work, my friend.

[markradcliff]

EG4- wallmount looks pretty good. Cheaper too.

[csfiore]

What are your thoughts the LG Chem, that is what we have. 2 (two) 10 kw.

[sugarpuddin]

Little of this is helpful to me without information regarding price and comparative shoot out (all the battery performance indices compared against each other).