Reliable Home Solar Battery Storage in Massachusetts
Sunrun can power your home with clean, renewable energy, and charge a solar battery to keep the lights on when the power’s out. Now, by partnering with National Grid, you can also earn money each year by using energy from your solar battery to keep the grid greener and more reliable.
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Here's How ConnectedSolutions Works
Everyday Use
Your home will use energy from your solar panels during the day and from the utility grid when you need extra energy. If you make more solar energy than you are using, you will sell that back to your utility for a credit.
Your battery will stay charged and ready for a power outage or a valuable ConnectedSolutions event.
ConnectedSolutions Event
Your home will automatically use energy from your battery. If you don’t need much energy at that time, your battery will send energy to the grid instead.
If you need more energy than your battery and panels have, you can always use energy from the grid.
Power Outage
Your home will automatically disconnect from the utility grid and use energy from your solar panels (during the day) and from your battery (at night). Even during ConnectedSolutions events your battery will keep at least 20% of its energy in case there is a power outage.
Curious about whether your battery is charging or discharging? After your system is installed you can see what’s going on using the mySunrun app on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Solar Battery Technology
Energy storage technologies are crucial to a clean energy future. Sunrun’s Brightbox™ includes a powerful lithium-ion battery made by trusted partners like LG Chem to optimize affordability, efficiency, and durability. When fully charged, your battery can provide 8-12 hours of backup power on reserve, storing the solar power produced by your panels so you can use it when you need it most.
3 Ways Brightbox™ Powers You Forward
1. Peace of Mind During an Outage
We well know severe weather storms are hard to predict, not to mention a blackout. With Brightbox, you can rest easy knowing that you won’t be left in the dark.
Your home battery will have a constant reserve of power. You’ll also be able to choose which rooms and appliances you want to back up. That means you can keep your food cold, your phones charged, and the lights on during a power outage. When the sun’s back out, Sunrun’s solar panels will recharge your Brightbox home battery so you can continue to get backup power until the grid is up and running again.
2. Superior Service
We do the work so you don’t have to. Our flexible solar leasing options come with 24/7 proactive monitoring and maintenance, on us. If we notice that your home battery or solar panels aren’t working at their full capacity, we’ll send an expert over to fix it. We’re always standing by to make sure your home battery is in top condition, so you can keep powering on.
3. The Clean Alternative to Diesel or Natural Gas
Our home battery storage system is the clean alternative to diesel or natural gas generators. With Sunrun Brigthbox there are no harmful effects, no extra noise, and no gas or diesel.
Since you don’t have to refuel Brightbox with gasoline, you’ll also be saving on energy costs. Instead, our lithium-ion battery is charged by your solar panels, and has a storage capacity of up to 10 hours of essential electricity. When the sun comes back out, your panels start recharging again. With the sun, you have unlimited power potential.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
As part of this program, you will:
- Get a $150 gift card in the mail this October, and every year after for 5 years and;
- Help create a cleaner and more reliable electrical grid in your neighborhood.
Yes. Your battery will have a full charge most of the time. It’s unlikely that a power outage would happen during peak energy demand. If it does, your battery will hold 20% of its charge so that you can keep the lights on.
Energy is not easily stored, so energy providers like your utility have to match supply and demand in real time. That’s not easy to do. To meet peak energy demand, utilities often turn to a type of power plant known as a “peaker plant” — and they’re some of the dirtiest types of power plants. By using your battery during these times, you’re reducing strain on the grid and using a cleaner source of energy.
Energy demand typically spikes between 2pm to 7pm when people get home from work, and during very hot summer days when lots of people are using their A/C.
Simply sign the program enrollment form included in your Sunrun contract package when you sign up for solar and we’ll take care of the rest. If you’re not sure if you already signed up, contact Customer Care at sunrunrewards@sunrun.com or 855-478-6786.
Yes, you can opt out of either a single day’s event or the ConnectedSolutions program at any time by calling Sunrun’s Customer Care team at 855-478-6786. If you opt out of the ConnectedSolutions program entirely, you will not receive the $150.
These programs and services are managed and delivered by electric and gas Sponsors (working closely with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources), providing the energy expertise to help you save energy and money. The funding is supported from a charge on customers’ energy bills.