"Home battery"

Home battery / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

A Toronto Off-grid home 20 years later; how did it fare? How could it be optimized?

...home Green Building Guide and these pages here: To learn all about Ecohome Resilient Home Design webinars, see here Air barriers and air sealing a home during construction or renovation All about Passive House construction All about off grid home building and lifestyles And sign up here for a free Ecohom...

Solar photovoltaic

Lithium-ion solar home batteries

...battery. No longer being limited to using only half of the stored power in a battery effectively doubles their capacity. The second big improvement is the advent of ‘smart’ battery controls. Battery systems have always required a charge controller to make sure the batteries are not overcharged or discharged too deeply;...

Efficient home design

Thermal batteries: how to passively store heat

...battery? Thermal mass of any kind can by definition be called a thermal battery, as it has the ability to store heat. In the context of a house, that means dense materials like bricks, masonry and concrete. Even a jug of water sitting in a sunny window is a thermal battery of sorts as it captures and later releases hea...

Renewable energy

Aquion’s saltwater home battery

...home battery currently on the market. It's available across Canada through Sentinal Solar, though they don't have a ton of warehouses so check your location against shipping costs before you get mentally attached to the price tag. Now you know more about solar PV and home battery power storage. See more pages on re...

Solar photovoltaic

All about solar panels - the different options and how they work

...home is more straightforward and affordable now than ever before, with areas throughout Canada experiencing a jump in residential solar power installations in the past few years. If you’re thinking about taking the leap into renewable energy in your own home but don’t feel you have enough information about current deve...