Home Battery Sizing Calculator
Figure out how much home battery capacity you need to keep the essentials running during an outage. Enter the energy you want to back up per day and how many days of autonomy you want — the calculator sizes the nameplate capacity after usable depth of discharge and round-trip losses.
Battery capacity to buy
12.3 kWh
10.0 kWh usable energy needed
≈ 0.9 units of 13.5 kWh
Nameplate capacity accounts for usable depth of discharge and round-trip losses, so it runs higher than the raw energy you want to cover. The 13.5 kWh unit is a generic reference size, not a specific product. To keep a battery affordable, back up only the essentials — fridge, lights, Wi-Fi, a few outlets — rather than the whole home. Estimate only.
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