Discover AES Battery Storage Document

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Feature
With round trip efciency measured at >95%, MISER
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technology by Discover
saves homeowners at least 15% of their stored energy capacity, each and every
time they cycle their system when compared to high quality, lead acid battery
options.
Value Proposition
To borrow an old cliché, a penny saved is a penny earned. In the solar industry, inverter and module
manufacturers have been competing around conversion efciency since the turn of the century. They beat each
other up mercilessly over fractions of % efciency gains and, to their credit, the modules and inverters on the
market today are far superior to what was available even 10 years ago.
There are three major component investments in any off-grid or micro-grid system. Current inverter and module
technologies are nearly optimized for efciency leaving batteries as the only component offering real, tangible
improvement.
In the energy storage business, Round Trip Efciency (RTE) is the measure of the energy wasted each and every
charge/discharge cycle new high quality lead acid batteries have at best an 80% RTE, which can decline rapidly
as the batteries age.
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batteries with MISER
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offer your customers the ability to save 1.5 kWh in energy cost for
every 10 kWh of energy storage they own, each and every cycle. With an average electricity tariff of 0.15 $/kWh
in the United States, that is $1.50 savings per cycle or $547.50 per year with only a single cycle use per day.
In Japan & Australia the savings per year would be over $1,000 and in Northern Europe the average annual
savings would be greater than $1,300. Everyone knows there is a dollar value for the cost of energy. Why is it
that lead acid battery manufacturers get let off the hook? They don’t even bother to report RTE on their product
specication sheets.
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batteries with MISER
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technology allows homeowners to store and utilize the solar
energy they harvest from their panels with >95% efciency. Compare that to the best case 80% RTE of new lead
and 60% RTE of aged lead-acid batteries, and you can give the inverter guys a break for a while.
Positioning
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batteries versus lead acid batteries.