Hybrid Solar + Storage
Hybrid systems connect solar production, battery storage, critical loads, and grid interaction into a coordinated energy architecture.
Build My Hybrid PlanProperty owners who want outage capability without losing the flexibility of a grid-connected home or business.
The architecture needs to define what remains energized during outages, how the system recharges, and how equipment constraints affect the plan.
See where your power comes from.
Pick a situation and watch the colored dots move. They show what a system like this is doing at that moment, and why a grid-tied system behaves differently from one with a battery.
Your solar powers your home first, tops off the battery, and any extra can go back to the grid, depending on your utility plan.
- Solar power flows to the inverter.
- Solar power flows from the inverter to your home.
- The battery is charging from solar.
- Extra solar power flows out to the utility grid.
Illustration only. A real design depends on your equipment, the loads you choose to back up, and a site review.
Questions that help shape the right next step.
Early planning does not replace final engineering, permitting, site evaluation, equipment selection, or contractual proposals. It gives those steps a more informed starting point.
Backup boundary and critical-load panel strategy
Inverter power and surge requirements
Solar-to-storage charging relationship
Generator compatibility and load management
Common ways a system plan gets simplified too soon.
These are not reasons to delay a project. They are reasons to ask more useful questions before the property is committed to an approach.
Calling any grid-tied system a backup system
Skipping circuit-level decisions
Assuming all solar will operate during an outage
Not coordinating the generator with storage behavior
Organize the first inputs before a project review.
The separate Energy Planner considers usage, critical loads, storage, power, and runtime. Use it for a structured preliminary plan, then bring the results into a Project Review.
Use the Energy Planner