Home Solar Panel and Home Battery Sales and Installation

Stop Renting Your Energy. Owning a solar system is now more affordable than ever. This makes it easy and painless to go green and harvest the power of the sun. If you own your home, there is no reason you shouldn’t own your electricity too!

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California Home Battery Rebate: Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP)

California’s SGIP rebate is one of the best incentives in the country for homeowners who want to install a home battery with their solar panels. The Golden State already leads the country in solar energy – it has more solar capacity than any other state in the U.S. and nearly six times more solar than number-two state Arizona. Now, California is becoming a leader in energy storage. Thanks to the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) you can get a rebate for most or all your solar battery installation in California, and it’s about to become a lot easier for homeowners to access. Here’s everything you need to know about the SGIP rebate in 2017.

The California energy storage rebate program, technically referred to as the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), was established back in 2001. SGIP supports a variety of “behind the meter” technologies that are installed at your home or business, including energy storage, fuel cells, and combined heat and power generators.

Until recently, the process of applying to get a home battery rebate through SGIP was difficult, particularly for residential customers. All the program funds became available on a specific day, and the vast majority were taken very quickly by industrial-sized energy storage projects, leaving nothing left for homeowners interested in small home batteries.

Luckily for homeowners with energy storage in California, the program is getting an overhaul. There are a few changes that will lead to major incentives for CA home batteries.

First, and most importantly, homeowners who are customers of either PG&E, SCE, or SDG&E will be eligible for an incentive as high as $400 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) when you install a home battery. That’s enough to cover most of your battery costs. The value of the per-kWh incentive depends on the size of the battery you purchase and will be reduced as more batteries are installed in the Golden State, so it pays to be an “early adopter” of home batteries. You can check the current value of the incentive at the SGIP Program Metrics dashboard.

COST BREAKDOWN

LG Chem Battery = $10,000

California Battery Rebate - $3,430

Federal Tax Credit (30%) - $3,000


TOTAL COST TO YOU = $3,570

Why get a California Home Battery Rebate?

Home energy storage offers many benefits, particularly if you have a solar panel system on your roof. In essence, installing a home battery allows you to store your excess solar power at home instead of feeding it back into the grid.

Feeding your excess power into the electric grid is an easy way to balance out your daily electricity production and use. Under California’s original net metering policy, homeowners receive bill credits equal to the price they pay for electricity for every kWh of extrasolar power they send back onto the grid. However, the state is implementing a few changes to net metering that will make a battery more valuable for homeowners.


In early 2016, California approved net metering 2.0, which will eventually require all new solar homeowners to switch to time-of-use (TOU) rates. In summer 2016, San Diego Gas & Electric became the first CA utility to start implementing net metering 2.0. If you have TOU rates for your electricity, the cost of one kWh (and the value of every kWh you send back to the grid) will vary depending on the time of day. By installing a home battery with your solar panel system, you can store your excess solar power at home when utility rates are low and use it when rates are highest.

​When you install a home battery, you also have the benefit of some backup power in the event that the electric grid goes down. However, most batteries for home use are designed to store a few hours of electricity, so they won’t run your home at full power for multiple days.

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