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SolarEdge - Battery Reviews

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Finn's SolarEdge Batteries Review & Verdict

Finn Peacock has been a Chartered Electrical Engineer since 1998, and is ex-CSIRO

SolarEdge is one of those brands that polarises opinions - some in the industry love 'em, others not so much, mostly due to frustrations with their Aussie support, and their historical litigiousness towards solar installers that dare to criticise them! ?

But while the company's attitude has been less than stellar in the past in my opinion (it seems to have improved recently); they do produce some pretty good gear. The SolarEdge Home Battery is among it, and for that reason I'm comfortable recommending their residential energy storage system.

SolarEdge Batteries: Pros & Cons

  • 10 year warranty with unlimited cycles
  • Solar panels can charge the battery during a blackout if a Backup Box is installed
  • Must use a SolarEdge inverter

About SolarEdge

SolarEdge is an Israeli company best known for manufacturing solar inverters and power optimisers, but it recently branched out into manufacturing battery storage.

Australian Contact Details

Address: Level 13/ 222 Exhibition Street, Melbourne 3000
Phone: 1800 465 567

Australian website

Company Info

SolarEdge was founded in 2006 and released its first commercial product, a single phase inverter, in 2010. In 2015, the company teamed up with Tesla to develop an inverter to work with Tesla's original Powerwall home battery. The partnership was brief, with Tesla subsequently developing its own inverter built into Powerwall 2 in 2016.

In 2018, SolarEdge acquired Korean battery storage company Kokam and Israeli Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) manufacturer Gamatronic, which was a sign of things to come. In 2021, SolarEdge released its first home battery in the US market - the Energy Bank. The battery was formally launched in Australia in late March 2022, and soon after was renamed to the SolarEdge Home Battery.

SolarEdge Home Battery Details

The SolarEdge Home Battery offers 9.7 kilowatt-hours of usable storage and can crank out 5 kilowatts of continuous power.

As it's a DC coupled energy storage solution, you need to use either a SolarEdge Home Genesis or Home Hub inverter with it. It can provide backup power, but that requires extra equipment (a Backup Box) and adds to the cost. While it can provide backup, SolarEdge does not recommend it for off-grid use.

The battery backup takes a full 3 seconds to switch over in the event of a grid outage. Some would consider this a bug, others a feature. Instant switchover means you may not know a blackout has occurred and adjust energy usage accordingly; resulting in an accidentally drained battery.

If 9.7 kilowatt-hours of capacity isn't enough, extra batteries can be installed (up to 3 batteries per inverter) - but you'll need to also fork out for a Combiner Box.

The system can be installed indoors or outdoors and can be wall or floor mounted; with the latter requiring the purchase of a floor mount.

You can find more specifications on our solar battery comparison table and read an initial in-depth review of the SolarEdge Home Battery here

SolarQuotes' Jono was one of the first Australians to install this battery. Learn about his eventful first 3 months of ownership in his SolarEdge Home Battery review. Based on his experience and feedback from installers and customers (ratings and reviews from Australian customers who have one are below), SolarEdge is currently listed as a SolarQuotes approved battery brand.

Integrated Fire Extinguisher Extinguished

This battery system had a really interesting feature when it was first released in Australia - a built-in fire extinguisher that would engage should the internal temperature rise too high. But prior to this happening, the system would alert SolarEdge and the owner to a heat issue requiring attention.

With an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, this was a really good idea as once that extinguisher is in a situation where it discharges, the battery will be pretty much toast. But thanks to this intervention, hopefully not thoroughly burnt toast taking the home with it. However, in September 2024, SolarEdge advised the extinguisher was only present in the first ~400 batteries installed in Australia, stating:

"It was originally included in the first shipments before we successfully complied with the strictest battery safety standard in the world, UL9540A. In the testing process for that standard, we were informed that we were so far above the requirements that the extinguisher wasn't needed, so to simplify installation it was removed from that point on."

New Battery On The Horizon

SolarEdge unveiled its next-generation single-phase solar + storage solution at RE+ in September 2024.

The modular design will allow homeowners to start with a smaller 4.4kWh battery that can scale up to four battery modules per stack (up to 17.6kWh), and up to four batteries per inverter (up to 70.4kWh). A new compatible solar inverter up to 11.5kW capacity will also be available. 

At this point, rollout is expected to begin in late 2025 and it will be manufactured at one of the company’s U.S. sites. If and when it will be available in Australia is yet to be revealed.

Warranty Information

The SolarEdge Home Battery warranty is pretty good compared to some other manufacturers - 10 years and unlimited cycles. The company warrants at least 70% of nominal capacity at the end of the 10-years. 

If you have one of these solar batteries, share your opinions on its quality and performance by leaving a review. There would be many Australians interested in learning about your SolarEdge Home Battery experience!

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We have had our SolarEdge Battery, nominal 10 kWh, for 5 months now, from December 2024 to May 2025. We already had an 8.8kW Solar System comprising 20 Jinko Tiger N-type all-black panels (440W each) and a SolarEdge SE Home Hub Inverter installed in 2023 to be "battery ready". Having just had the Solar System by itself for a bit over a year previously, we realised there was quite a lot of excess solar production just going to the grid, so we decided to get a battery to "capture" that excess solar for our own use in the evenings. The NSW Government Battery Rebate helped sway us, as well. The battery has proved to be as good as we had hoped. Last night was the first time in 5 months, admittedly mostly during summer and autumn, that the battery went down to the 10% reserve level over night. Until then, we had been using solar directly during the day, using some of the battery-stored energy at night (battery going down to about 40-50% battery levels overnight), and then having the battery topped back up by solar energy to 100% by 11am-1pm the next day day. Even though our 20 panels all face west, I have been surprised by how early the battery top-up in the mornings starts, as a result of scattered light, if it is a bright (even cloudy) day. I suspect our electricity demands are not particularly high, since there are only two of us, but we do have a pool. Our hot water is a separate solar hot water system that costs about $10-20 a year to run (occasional electric, controlled-load back up after a run of rainy days). I am not disappointed by our decision to get a battery, which would be even more cost-effective with the proposed Federal Government Battery Rebate scheme. There have been a couple of glitches. Initially, the battery was installed incorrectly by the electrician, a fact we easily determined thanks to Finn Peacock's article "My SolarEdge Monitoring Doesn't Look Right".The Technical Department at SolarEdge got involved, as did Soltek our installing company. The SolarEdge Technical people were great at getting this fixed. They sent out a SolarEdge Field Technician / Engineer and he fixed the problem really quickly, about a week after the installation. I suspect there are more installers with more experience around now and problems like this less likely. The other thing that caught us by surprise was when the battery suddenly stopped working for about 24 hours. This was likely due to a remotely-managed update. I expect this will happen from time to time. Incidentally, we also got a back-up system as part of the installation / cost, that should kick-in if there is a power failure. It hasn't been needed yet.
The manufacturer's are useless do not reply or follow up on warranty over a week battery still not working. the installers are good . Just let down by Solar edge.
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