Your home, powered by the sun. Day and night.
Solar panels and home batteries, supplied and fitted across London and surrounding areas. From two-panel balcony kits to full arrays.
Before sunrise, the battery runs your home.
It filled up overnight. Now it keeps the fridge, the lights and the first cup of tea going.
The sun's up. The panels take over.
Light falls on the panels and power flows into the house. The battery does less and less, then stops.
Spare sunshine fills the battery.
The home runs on the roof alone. What it does not need goes into the battery until it is full.
Battery full. The spare is sold to the grid.
Your energy supplier pays you for what you export, through the Smart Export Guarantee.
The car charges at full speed.
Mostly sunshine, a little from the battery and a small top-up from the grid: 7 kW, about 20 miles an hour.
Car's done. The sun refills the battery.
Forty miles added in two hours. Now the spare sunshine goes back into the battery.
Battery full again. The spare goes to the grid.
Until the sun drops, what the house does not use is sold to the grid.
Dusk. The battery steps in.
The sun is low and the kettle and microwave are on. The battery tops up what the panels cannot.
Night. All from the battery.
Lights and TV, all on sunshine stored earlier. Watch the battery go down.
Midnight: cheap electricity fills everything up.
On a low overnight rate the battery charges, and the 7 kW charger adds about 20 miles an hour to the car.
Ready for another day.
Both full. The battery runs the house again until the sun comes back.
- Time
- 05:30
- Powering your home
- The battery
Illustrative: 3.6 kW solar, 10 kWh battery, 7 kW charger.

