Sizing & Design
Your System, Built for You
The best solar + battery system isn’t the biggest—it’s the one that’s designed around your home and your lifestyle. Proper sizing ensures your system produces and stores the right amount of energy for your needs, without overspending on equipment you don’t use or undersizing so you fall short.
Your energy goals, roof space, utility rates, and even your daily routines all factor into creating a design that gives you the right balance of production, storage, and control.
Approaches to Sizing
- Daytime Coverage Only – A solar-only system sized to cover your daytime energy use, lowering utility costs without adding battery storage.
- Offset a Portion of Your Energy Use – A smaller solar + battery system that reduces reliance on the grid while providing backup for essentials.
- Cover Most or All of Your Annual Usage – A larger solar system designed to power the majority of your home’s needs.
- Pair With Battery Storage – Combine solar and batteries to maximize self-consumption, manage time-of-use rates, and enjoy backup power when you need it.
What matters most is that your system is built to serve your priorities—whether that’s lowering bills, having peace of mind with backup, or reaching full energy independence.
Scalability Options
- Add more panels if your energy use grows.
- Add additional batteries to increase your backup duration.
- Integrate EV charging or smart home controls when you’re ready.
With the right design, you don’t have to build your forever system all at once—you can grow into it over time.
Resiliency Features
- Whole-home or essential-load backup, depending on your priorities.
- Black-start capable batteries, which recharge directly from solar even after a full drain.
- Smart inverters, which keep critical loads powered and adjust energy flow automatically.
- Flexible design configurations to account for different roof types, shading, and electrical service panels.
Resiliency isn’t an afterthought—it’s built into your system from the start.
Scalability Options
- Add more panels if your energy use grows.
- Add additional batteries to increase your backup duration.
- Integrate EV charging or smart home controls when you’re ready.
With the right design, you don’t have to build your forever system all at once—you can grow into it over time.
The Difference for You
A properly sized and designed system gives you more than solar production—it gives you the ability to manage your energy your way. With scalability for the future and resiliency for the unexpected, your solar + battery system becomes a long-term solution that grows with you and keeps you in control.
3 Design Paths for Your Energy
1. Daytime Solar
Best for: Lowering bills with a simple solar setup.
- Covers your daytime energy use without adding battery storage.
- Reduces reliance on the grid while the sun is shining.
- A smart starting point that can be expanded later with batteries.
2. Solar + Battery
Best for: Control and flexibility.
- Stores your excess solar power for use at night or during peak utility hours.
- Provides backup power for essentials when you want peace of mind.
Modular design allows you to add more batteries as your needs grow.
3. Full Energy Independence
Best for: Maximum freedom from the grid.
- A system designed to cover most or all of your annual usage.
- Whole-home backup to keep everything running during outages.
- Built with resiliency features like black-start batteries and smart inverters.
The Difference for You
No matter which path you choose, your system can grow and adapt over time. Start with what fits your life today—and expand as your energy needs change.