{"id":27130,"date":"2019-01-15T06:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27130"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:13:15","slug":"byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 Added To SA Home Battery Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery.png\" alt=\"BYD B-Box Pro 13.8\" width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery.png 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choices of battery systems continue to grow in South Australia&#8217;s Home Battery Scheme, with BYD the latest to be added to the list.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BYD (which stands for Build Your Dreams) is a huge Chinese company headquartered in Shenzhen that boasts 240,000 employees globally. Founded in 1995, BYD manufactures solar panels and battery systems, LEDs, electric forklifts, electric cars, monorail systems and electric buses. The company has established more than 30 industrial parks across six continents.<\/p>\n<h2>BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 Specifications<\/h2>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t added the BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/#compare\">solar battery storage comparison<\/a> page yet &#8211; but other SA Home Battery scheme approved units can be found on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bydbatterybox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BYD&#8217;s web site<\/a> isn&#8217;t particularly helpful with regard to specifications &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t provide much detail and the user manual PDF is busted. The SA Home Battery Scheme web site indicates the BYD B-Box Pro 13.8&#8217;s capacity as being 55.20kWh; which isn&#8217;t correct.<\/p>\n<p>A datasheet from 2017 reveals the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery chemistry: LiFePO4 &#8211; (lithium iron phosphate &#8211; considered the safest of Li-ion chemistries)<\/li>\n<li>Usable capacity: 13.8 kWh<\/li>\n<li>Maximum output power: 12.8kW<\/li>\n<li>Peak output power: 13.3kW (60 seconds)<\/li>\n<li>Round-trip efficiency: \u226595.3% under test conditions<\/li>\n<li>Dimensions: 650\u00d7800\u00d7550mm<\/li>\n<li>Net weight: 175 kg<\/li>\n<li>Warranty: 10 years<\/li>\n<li>Ambient temperature range: -10 ~ +50C<\/li>\n<li>Compatible inverters: SMA, Goodwe, Solax, Victron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Up to 32 BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 battery systems can be connected in parallel &#8211; so storage capacity of 440kWh, which is just a little bit of overkill for the average household &#8211; still, the ability is there.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll endeavour to get the latest datasheet, warranty and current pricing details into our battery comparison table soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<br \/>\n<strong>Update 18 January<\/strong> &#8211; BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">has been added<\/a> to the table.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<h2>Other SA Home Battery Scheme Approved Systems<\/h2>\n<p>After initially being limited to battery systems that are (or will be) manufactured\/assembled in South Australia, on December 31 2018 other manufacturers began getting a look in. In addition to BYD, at the time of publishing the manufacturers with skin in the game are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sonnen-battery-prices-sa\/\">Sonnen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/alpha-ess-battery-subsidy-mb0825\/\">Alpha-ESS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eguana-technologies-battery-subsidy-mb0831\/\">Eguana Technologies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-home-solar-battery-mb0881\/\">Tesla<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-home-solar-battery-mb0881\/\">LG Chem<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/enphase-battery-subsidy-mb0890\/\">Enphase<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/varta-solar-battery-mb0894\/\">Varta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well as systems being eligible, they must be installed by an approved system provider.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia&#8217;s Home Battery scheme offers subsidies of up to $6,000, with the level of subsidy provided based on storage capacity. A $600 per kilowatt hour subsidy is available to South Australian concession holders and $500 per kilowatt hour other households \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-battery-subsidy-update\/\">further details on the subsidy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choices of battery systems continue to grow in South Australia&#8217;s Home Battery Scheme, with BYD the latest to be added to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 Added To SA Home Battery Scheme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Choices of battery systems continue to grow in South Australia&#039;s Home Battery Scheme, with BYD the latest to be added to the list.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 Added To SA Home Battery Scheme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Choices of battery systems continue to grow in South Australia&#039;s Home Battery Scheme, with BYD the latest to be added to the list.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-14T20:03:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-24T01:13:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/byd-bbox-battery.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"421\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"BYD B-Box Pro 13.8 Added To SA Home Battery Scheme\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-14T20:03:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-24T01:13:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":407,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/byd-sa-battery-scheme-mb0899\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/01\\\/byd-bbox-battery.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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