California sales of household batteries predicted to grow in 2020

[J.P.M.]

I am sure that is a major driver for this trend. Especially in my neck of the woods. Long term it does not bode well for the Investor Owned Utilities unless they can adapt.

I like quiet as much or more than anyone, but I ought to have added that while having an ICE generator that's also a noise generator is probably a better practical solution for temp. power when the lights go out, or at least faster and cheaper solution to the problem if not quieter, I believe the battery peddlers will play on fear and gouge folks. It's just business.

[PugPower]

I have a hard time justifying the purchase of batteries when we have net-metering in CA. The way I see it, the poco acts like my battery and I don't need to spend any additional money. Batteries are still quite expensive and generally last an average of 10 years. It seems to me the only real advantage of having batteries is backup power when the grid goes out, which in my case happened maybe once the past 5 years that I can recall.

If you really want to talk about batteries, head over to the Tesla forum. They seem to be competing with one another to see who can have the most Telsa PowerWall installs. I guess if you've got money to burn...and want to join the cult,

Btw, the utilities will do just fine. They are now building solar farms with the intention of selling renewable energy to new homes built in CA. This gets around the mandatory solar install law that was introduced in 2020.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-oks-first-community-solar-program-under-new-building-standard-t/572784/

[Ampster]

Well I have an opinion concerning anything that has Bloomberg in the title so I will just stay out of this post because I think it is all smoke and mirrors.

I agree the projection for 2020 is merely an opinion, but are you saying you do not believe the sales figures are reasonably factual?

I checked the sources and the 2017 & 2018 numbers are from the US Energy Information Agency.

[Ampster]

I am sure that is a major driver for this trend. Especially in my neck of the woods. Long term it does not bode well for the Investor Owned Utilities unless they can adapt.

[J.P.M.]

Wait til the next fire season and watch that 50K unit sales get surpassed over a month's time or less with the first major power curtailment.

[organic farmer]

I think it may make sense though. As more people are thinking about using solar power, and last year California suffered so many power outages. Here in Maine the public utilities only track the grid-tied 'net metering' installations, they have no idea how many off-grid homes exist. So they assume that only a tiny fraction of homes are off-grid. Here in my town 75% of all solar power is powering off-grid homes. The only way to track the growth of homes using solar power would be to track sales of batteries.

[SunEagle]

From 10,000 units in 2019 the sales of household batteries is predicted to grow to 50,000 units in 2020:

https://about.bnef.com/blog/californ...ruple-in-2020/

Well I have an opinion concerning anything that has Bloomberg in the title so I will just stay out of this post because I think it is all smoke and mirrors.

[Ampster]

From 10,000 units in 2019 the sales of household batteries is predicted to grow to 50,000 units in 2020:

https://about.bnef.com/blog/californ...ruple-in-2020/