A battery storage system is the ideal complement to a solar power system, because households don't need as much solar power as they produce. The energy storage system stores the excess energy produced by the photovoltaic system during the day. Thanks to the battery storage, solar power is also available in the evenings, at night, and in the mornings.
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Solar panels produce the most electricity at midday, when household consumption is usually low. Without storage, excess energy is fed into the grid at low compensation rates. Maximizing self-consumption increases profitability and reduces electricity costs.
With a suitable storage solution, self-consumption can be increased from 30-35% to around 70%
Solar energy can be used directly, stored in a battery, or fed into the grid. Excess power charges the battery, supplying the home from evening to morning; grid power is used only when the battery is empty. Optimal performance depends on the right system and battery size, ideally combined with intelligent energy control.
Based on your specific situation and needs, our experts will recommend either the AC or DC system. Installation is carried out by our experienced specialists, all of whom are certified by the manufacturer. FreeState automatically registers each installed battery with Inobat, ensuring the proper disposal of your aging energy storage system
Guide
A battery shifts solar power from midday to the evening. Whether that pays off depends less on the device than on your consumption, the size of the battery and your grid operator's tariffs.
Without a battery, a household typically uses 30 to 35 per cent of its own solar power itself, and the rest flows into the grid. With a suitably sized battery, this share rises to around 70 per cent. Power from the roof then also covers the evening, the night and the early morning.
Every kilowatt hour from the battery replaces electricity from the grid. At the same time, you lose the payment you would have received for feeding it in. The benefit of the battery is the difference between the two.
A battery that is too large does not fill up on many days and is hardly used in winter. One that is too small is empty by early evening. The starting point is your electricity consumption between sunset and sunrise, not the output of the solar system.
A heat pump and an electric car change the calculation considerably, because they increase consumption in the evening and at night. That is why we size the battery on the basis of your load profile and not by a rule of thumb.
The price per kilowatt hour falls as the size increases, because the inverter, cabling and commissioning have to be paid for with every battery. A battery installed together with the solar system is therefore cheaper than a later retrofit.
Prices on the Swiss market have fallen considerably of late. In our article, we work through step by step how they are made up and what a kilowatt hour from the battery costs over its service life.
A battery pays off when a kilowatt hour from the battery costs less than the benefit it brings. At today's tariffs, this benefit is around 15 to 18 Rappen per kilowatt hour. That is the difference between the grid tariff and the feed-in payment you give up, minus the losses from charging and discharging.
A battery does not automatically keep supplying power during a power cut. That takes a system with a backup power function that safely disconnects the house from the grid. If this matters to you, say so before planning starts, because it affects the choice of battery and the electrical installation.
Heat is cheaper to store than electricity. A hot water tank or buffer tank takes up the midday surplus via the heat pump, and the electric car charges when the sun is shining. An energy management system distributes the solar power in this order, and the battery takes what is left after that.
What homeowners want to know before buying a battery.
That depends on your consumption in the evening and at night, on your grid operator's feed-in tariff and on the price of the battery. With a heat pump or an electric car, the numbers work out much more often than in a small household without these loads. We run the calculation for your house and tell you if it does not pay off.
What counts is your electricity consumption between evening and morning. A battery that fills up on most days and is empty again overnight works economically. Bigger is not better.
Yes. It is cheaper to install the battery together with the solar system, because planning, cabling and commissioning then only happen once. If you want to retrofit later, choose an inverter for your system that is prepared for it.
Only with a system that has a backup power or emergency power function. An ordinary battery switches off during a grid failure for safety reasons.
The manufacturers of the batteries we install give a ten-year warranty. The usable capacity decreases slowly over the years, as with any battery.
Not at federal level. Some cantons and municipalities subsidise batteries together with a solar system. We check what applies at your address before we prepare the quote.
Kleine Batteriespeicher sind 2025 rund 19 Prozent günstiger geworden. Wir rechnen durch, was eine kWh aus dem Speicher kostet, welche Grösse passt und wann sich ein Stromspeicher in der Schweiz trotzdem nicht lohnt.
Die Schweiz hat 9.5 Gigawatt Solarleistung am Netz, doch 2025 ging der Zubau erstmals seit 2017 zurück, während der Batteriemarkt um 70 Prozent zulegte. Wir erklären, warum sich der Markt dreht und was Eigenheimbesitzer jetzt tun sollten.
600–900 CHF per kWh, 12–15 year payback: when a home battery really pays off in Switzerland, how to size it, and why pairing it with a heat pump changes the answer.
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