Each solar panel you have installed sleeps at night just like you. They clock-in at sunrise and clock-off when the sun goes down. So they only have a set amount of hours to generate electricity. During the day, the energy your solar panels produce will either:
- Power your home
- Be fed into your local energy grid
- Be stored in your solar battery.
At night, you’ll either be using solar electricity stored on your solar battery or grid electricity purchased from your energy provider (or both). If you don’t have a solar battery, solar power in Auckland can still cover your electricity cost.
While they won’t technically power your house 24/7, solar panels (without a battery) can power your home during the day and feed excess electricity into your local grid. This sells the power you don’t use for discounts on the energy you buy at night. In most cases, this will drastically reduce power bills. In fact, some solar homeowners pay next to nothing every month.
