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Intersolar News: IBC Solar Presents Solar Power Storage
IBC SOLAR AG has introduced IBC SolStore Pb Home for the first time at Intersolar Europe in Munich. The product is a solar power storage system which can increase the self-consumption rate in households by 80 percent or more. This solution enables households with a PV system to use the majority of their self-generated solar power directly.
IBC SolStore Pb Home is an advancement of the proven lead-acid battery solution IBC SolStore 8.0 Pb and is complemented by the product innovation IBC SolGuard Home, an intelligent energy management solution. With an automatic energy yield forecast and the possibility to manage household machines actively, the complete PV system offers owners optimal use of self-generated solar electricity any time, day and night. By incorporating thermal storage solutions, the self-consumption rate could increase by up to 80 percent.
IBC SolGuard Home, the company says,ensures intelligent energy management: the system takes into consideration the cheapest time to use electricity, weather forecasts, consumption patterns, battery charge status, as well as all relevant energy flows and produces reliable PV forecast data. Forecast is automatically compared with the known consumption patterns of household appliances and appliances are turned on once enough solar energy is available. Surplus electricity is only fed into the grid once the storage system is full and no more energy can be fed into the household.
IBC SolStore Pb Home allows a customer to take advantage of German government incentives for solar storage systems: the IBC SolStore Pb Home complete system fulfills all current requirements of the German government's storage incentive programme that entered into force on May 1st 2013 and that covers up to 30 percent of the acquisition costs.
