I would bet this will be priced better per kWh because there's less of a status symbol to it, but 8.7 is a lot smaller.
I would bet this will be priced better per kWh because there's less of a status symbol to it, but 8.7 is a lot smaller.
Storage capacity needs will vary based on the use, but over an hour of use seems like it would take care of a lot of people's needs in my seat of the pants estimate. And for many of those that don't have their needs met with 8.7kWh, 13.7kWh isn't going to do it either.
Is that true, or a sales guy thing? I'm not sure and haven't investigated.
However, at my previous house, I didn't have any substantial electric loads, other than an electric water heater in an underused ADU, so 5.5kW would have been likely been fine, and our typical energy use was around 1kW, so we would have had several hours for service to be restored, which fit within the experienced outages.