New battery launched to complete the home energy ecosystem

myenergi continues its growth into new markets with the launch of its own home battery, named libbi.

This new product sits alongside eddi (the smart solar diverter) and zappi (the world's first solar EV smart charger) in the company's eco-smart product line-up, and importantly, will enable customers to complete their home energy ecosystem, assisting them in maximising self-consumption from their own renewable generation and greatly reduce energy costs.

Jordan Brompton, co-founder and CMO of myenergi, said: "We are incredibly excited to bring a smart home battery to the UK market. Around one million homes in the UK now have solar panels, and as electric vehicle sales continue to rise and the transition to electric heating accelerates, we know that there will be huge growth in domestic renewable generation and demand for battery storage to maximise it."

This home battery solution includes the battery, inverter and controller, enabling customers to complete their domestic energy ecosystem. Like all the company's products, libbi is eco-smart, making intelligent decisions about when it provides and stores electricity based on how much energy is used, how much is generated from solar and the customer's electricity tariff. The hybrid battery system can adapt to various installation setups, accepting solar and grid charging.

Unlike other home storage batteries, it will enable customers to prioritise loads as they wish within the myenergi app, for example, to avoid the battery discharging automatically when they plug in their electric car, or conversely, to charge their EV directly from their home battery when their zappi is in ECO+ mode.

The modular design utilises 5.1kWh battery packs, scalable up to 20.4kWh of storage, with either a 3.68kW or 5kW inverter. Customers can choose whether to charge the libbi from solar, grid energy, or a mixture of both – with the latter being optimised around a time-of-use or agile tariff.

Lee Sutton, co-founder and CEO of myenergi, added: "We are committed to innovation and are excited to deliver technologies that help our customers gain more autonomy over their energy. Our libbi home battery will help our customers complete their own energy ecosystem, enabling them to become less reliant on electricity supplied from the grid and become more energy independent, in order to both reduce energy costs and reduce their own carbon footprint."

A 4kW domestic solar array would typically generate around 3,500kWh of electricity per year – enough energy to drive more than 10,000 miles in an electric car – so if more of this energy can be stored and used by the household, it will have noteworthy benefits in decarbonising vehicles and homes.