Home Energy Storage System Introduced with Amazon Alexa Integration
Peter Brown | September 19, 2018The PowerPod contains a 11 kWh lithium-ion battery and can be wall or ground mounted. Source: ElectrIQEnergy storage vendor ElectrIQ Power has developed a home energy storage system for the mass market that responds to voice commands from Amazon Alexa.
The PowerPod comes with an 11 kWh lithium-ion battery, a 5.5. kW hybrid DC-coupled inverter, a proprietary energy monitoring platform and a 10-year warranty with daily cycling of the battery.
The energy storage device is modular up to three systems with three battery packs per system, giving homeowners the ability to have up to 16.5 kW of power and 99 kWh of battery storage. The storage system can be wall or ground mounted weighing in at 250 pounds and can be connected to a home’s local network through Ethernet, Wi-Fi and an optional 3G connection for redundancy.
With an Amazon Alexa smart speaker, homeowners can ask Alexa questions about energy consumption, production and battery status. The ElectrIQ PowerPod retails for $8,999 for the complete battery system with solar and battery inverter.
Does the warranty cover the cells? 3,600 cycles is a LOT of cycles. No mention of what the warranty covers on the manufacturer's web site.
Will this four year old company be around in ten years?
But, if you were trying to live off the grid, could be a good choice.
3600 cycles is nice, but $9000 is insane.
I can build an 11kWh battery array for less than $2k out of deep-cycle sealed lead-acid batteries.
It's not for an electric car. It's just going to sit outside the house, so weight is not an issue.
The battery system is too expensive. The company has to research how to reduce the pricing even with the inverter. It's a lithium-ion battery. a charging cycle of 2,000 times in two years is more realistic. By then the storage efficiency of the battery had gone down to about 50%
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