Storage ownership economics
Every Charge.
Every Dollar.
Battery Economics provides objective, data-driven tools for residential, commercial, and industrial storage decisions. We model installed cost, usable capacity, utility-rate savings, solar value, incentives, grid-services revenue, resilience, degradation, financing, and replacement risk so you can see whether an ownership or investment decision works — and exactly what assumptions make it work.
Storage applications
One technology. Three different investment cases.
Residential
Home Battery Storage
Size backup capacity, value solar self-consumption, test TOU arbitrage, account for incentives, and see whether the household investment pays off.
Commercial · Calculator live
Commercial Battery Storage
Analyze demand-charge reduction, tariff structure, resilience, solar integration, financing, and grid-services revenue for commercial facilities.
Industrial · In development
Industrial Battery Storage
Model high-load facilities, coincident peaks, power quality, production continuity, large-scale demand response, and project-level returns.
The methodology
Understand What a Battery
Is Really Worth
BatteryEconomics provides objective, data-driven analysis of battery storage. We calculate the cost, sizing, backup capability, utility savings, solar value, incentives, and long-term economics of battery systems so you can understand whether storage makes financial and practical sense for your home, business, or facility.
A battery can provide much more than backup power. Depending on your utility, rate structure, solar system, outage exposure, and available programs, its value may come from reducing peak electricity costs, storing excess solar production, participating in virtual power plant programs, improving resilience, or a combination of these benefits.
BatteryEconomics brings those value streams together in one place—helping you determine how much storage you need, what it is likely to cost, what benefits it can realistically provide, and whether the investment pays off over time.
No sales pitch. No assumption that a battery is always the right answer. Just the economics behind the decision.
What's included
Every line item, accounted for.
You pay
- Equipment & installation
- Electrical panel/subpanel work
- Charging electricity and round-trip losses
- Routine maintenance and software/service fees
- Capacity degradation and replacement risk
- Financing & interest
You get back
- State & utility rebates
- VPP / demand-response payments
- Solar self-consumption value (if paired)
- Demand-charge and peak-period savings
- Resilience and avoided outage losses
The tools
Four calculators. One investment decision.
Calculator
Battery Size Calculator
How much storage do I actually need?
Calculator · New · In development
Battery Economics Calculator
Is a home battery financially worthwhile for me?
Calculator · In development
Solar + Battery Calculator
Should I store my solar or send it to the grid?
Calculator
Backup Runtime Calculator
What can my battery power, and for how long?