Blog Updated: February 2026
If you’ve been feeling uncertain about your power recently, we totally get it. And if you’re having questions about the stability of the grid, it’s a great time to consider solar power and battery storage.
Home solar power is an opportunity to take control of your power (and its cost), and battery storage offers you resilience as uncertainty with the grid reliability and utility rates increases.
Locally, Coloradans have experienced multiple outages in the last year that caused hundreds of thousands of homes to be without power, some for as long as four days. When high winds and high fire danger are present, Xcel is more frequently implementing planned power shutoffs.
At Namaste Solar, we want to get solar power onto the roofs of the Colorado homeowners and provide them with home battery backup options to keep you up and running. Since we’re locally owned and operated, we have a vested effort in ensuring that our community has a resilient energy infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather events. And solar plus battery storage is the most environmentally friendly way you can keep your power on when the grid is out.
Let’s explore further.
Key Takeaways for Home Resiliency with Battery Storage
- Home battery storage (or home battery backup) refers to a battery that gets electricity either from your solar system or the grid that is later discharged to power your home, most often when the sun isn’t shining or there’s a grid outage.
- Battery storage can be used to keep your home powered through a grid outage, avoid time-of-use pricing, and to power your home at night using stored solar energy.
- Namaste Solar installs the Enphase 5P and Tesla Powerwall 3 batteries.
- Battery backup is a great way to protect your home from grid outages caused by extreme weather events like high winds. As climate change impacts become more widespread, a resilient home will become even more important.
- Home battery backup starts at about $16,000, after available tax credits and rebates, and goes up from there depending on your needs. You can learn about battery incentives here and general solar incentives here.
What Is Home Battery Storage?
Home battery storage (or home battery backup) refers to a battery that gets electricity either from your solar system or the grid that is later discharged to power your home, most often when the sun isn’t shining or there’s a grid outage.
There are a few ways that battery storage can be used:
- To keep your home powered when there’s a grid outage –What some installers don’t clearly explain is that even if you have solar power, you’ll still experience outages when the grid goes down. This is because solar systems are configured to shut down when the grid is down to protect utility workers. With home battery storage, though, you’re protected from power outages. Batteries sense when the grid is down and start supplying stored power immediately. It’s a seamless process – the lights won’t even flicker and your clocks won’t reset. With this set up, your home’s electric source becomes a closed loop and is truly self-powered. Unlike generators powered by fossil fuels, home battery backup that is paired with solar requires no fuel or annual maintenance since it’s charged by the sun.
- To avoid time-of-use pricing – This is how you can further reduce your utility bill. Some utilities now bill their customers using time-of-use billing. For those customers, electricity used during peak hours (usually from late afternoon to early evening) is most expensive (2 to 4 times more than off-peak). With battery storage, you can use the energy that your solar system generates during the day to charge your battery(s). Then, you can discharge that energy to power your home when the grid electricity is the most expensive during peak hours.
- To power your home at night – No matter what utility you have or what their pricing structure is, having a home battery system means you can use the power you store from solar during the day to offset energy used in your home at night. It’s a great feeling to capture the power of the sun for when the sun isn’t shining!
Solar plus battery storage is an incredible way for you to build true energy independence. It puts you on the path to a zero-emissions home by reducing your overall reliance on fossil fuels and the power grid. And the more widespread adoption becomes, the more our communities will experience increased resiliency.
What Battery Storage Options Does Namaste Solar Install?
Currently we offer the Tesla Powerwall 3 (TPW3) and Enphase 5P batteries as additional options with any new solar system and some pre-installed systems. In addition, we offer battery storage as a stand-alone offering, meaning you can buy a battery without solar. They’re all strong battery options and what’s right for you depends on your needs. Our non-commissioned solar advisors would be happy to help you choose the battery that’s the best fit.
Let’s take a look at the details of both batteries.
- Can be installed outdoors – Built for outdoor installation, this greatly expands the possibilities available to you with installation. No more needing to confine your battery power to a basement or garage.
- Manage the whole system with the Enphase or Tesla app – You can choose when to charge and discharge your battery all from the app, including the ability to program preferred settings. With this feature you can charge your battery from your solar system when the sun is out and discharge when electricity is the most expensive (in the afternoon/evening) allowing you to save even more money on your electricity bill.
- Safer by design – Utilizes the same AC power as your home and all three batteries leverage lithium-ion phosphate battery chemistry.
- Backup flexibility – All three batteries can power the essential loads of your home during a power outage. But they also can handle large startup loads.
- Industry leading warranty – Each battery option comes with an impressive, industry leading warranty.
There are a lot of companies making batteries right now, but many aren’t cost-effective or are new and untested. Our team continues to evaluate the evolving battery market, and we will update our offerings if options come to market that we believe will best serve our customers.
Let’s explore the benefits of home battery storage and solar power.
HHow Does Battery Storage and Solar Power Pair Together?
All of Namaste Solar’s systems are grid-tied, even those with battery storage. This means that every system we install is connected to the grid. Let’s explore the different levels of grid connectivity.
- Utility-Tied and Utility-Fed Home – These homes don’t have solar, and they get their power through the grid from the utility company. They’re vulnerable in the event of a power outage because if the grid sustains damage or goes through planned shutoffs to prevent damage, they’ll lose power. They’re at the mercy of the utility company to be up and running again.
- Utility-Tied Home with a Home Solar System – These homes have solar on their roofs. During the day, they’re producing power when the sunlight hits the panels on their roof. At night, they’re not producing power. And when the grid goes down, they shut off, by design. This is a required safety measure to prevent energy from being fed back into the system and to protect utility workers who could be working on power lines during an outage.
- Utility-Tied Home with a Solar System and Battery Storage – These homes have solar on their roofs and home battery backup. During the day, they produce power to consume and any excess power charges their batteries. At night, they’re using their battery power rather than utility power. And if the grid goes down, they’re using battery power to run their home and experience a seamless transition without even a second of blackout.
As our weather events become more uncertain, the resiliency of the grid could be impacted even more. And having a home solar system and battery storage is the way to ensure that your home’s power remains on when the grid is out.
Is Battery Storage Worth the Price?
Home battery backup starts at about $16,000, after available tax credits and rebates, and goes up from there depending on your needs. You can learn about battery incentives here and general solar incentives here.
So, if you’re a homeowner who’s looking for energy independence from a potentially unstable grid, battery storage plus solar is the avenue for you. You’ll be getting reliability in your energy source, powering your home from clean energy, and offsetting your yearly electric costs.
Our non-commissioned home solar advisors are thrilled to be able to bring you battery storage and solar together. To see what it’d look like for your home to be truly energy independent, get your quote today. To get started, give us a call at 303-447-0300 or click the button below.
