The 2025 Guide to Solar Home Batteries
The comprehensive guide to solar battery and off-grid systems. How to select and size a home solar battery system and how much it may cost you. Also, alternatives to adding batteries and how energy efficiency can save you more than adding a battery.
Lithium Battery Warranties and What You Should Know
Learn how lithium battery warranties work, including end-of-life capacity, energy throughput limits, and how to avoid voiding your home solar battery warranty. Understanding the warranty terms of your battery is essential to ensuring you get the performance and lifespan you expect. Plus, we explain the impact of overnight grid charging and how you can adjust system settings as your battery ages.
Most efficient solar panels 2025
Why is solar panel efficiency important? We explain the misconceptions around efficiency and list the most efficient panels from the leading manufacturers using the latest PV cell technology.
Best off-grid solar systems
Learn about the different off-grid solar systems available and what is required to build a quality and reliable off-grid system. We also highlight the best off-grid inverters and battery storage systems for home use to provide power under all operating conditions and situations.
Best Solar Panels 2025
We review the best solar panels for your home from the world’s leading brands, including SunPower, REC, Panasonic, Q cells, Trina, and more. These manufacturers offer the highest performance, efficiency, and longest warranties, and they have a proven track record of reliability based on experience and independent testing by PVEL.
Bidirectional EV Chargers Review - V2G & V2H
Bidirectional EV chargers are sophisticated EV chargers capable of two-way charging, which allow an EV to discharge energy back into the grid, known as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G). In this article, we review the Bidirectional EV chargers currently available or under development, used for both vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) applications.
Most powerful solar panels 2025
Over recent years, a battle emerged to develop the world’s most powerful solar panel, with many manufacturers developing panels rated well over 600W while others are fast-tracking next-gen large format panels, rated at 700W or higher. Here, we list the most powerful panels and look at the benefits of using larger format panels on utility-scale solar farms and commercial solar systems.
Discover Battery Review
In-depth review of Discover Energy Systems' HELIOS and AES rack-mount lithium battery systems, with highlights, pros, cons, and warranty insights for off-grid and ESS users and professionals.
Best Home Solar Battery Systems
We explain how battery systems work and review the leading solar batteries in Australia for various home solar and off-grid systems, including Sigenergy, FranklinWH, BYD, Sungrow and Powerplus energy. Including battery pricing, sizes, compatibility, and unique features.
Best Hybrid Inverters 2025
Hybrid inverters combine a solar and battery inverter into one compact unit. These advanced inverters use energy from solar panels to power your home, charge a battery and provide emergency power during a blackout. We review the best hybrid inverters from the leading manufacturers for battery storage and backup power.
Guide to designing off-grid and hybrid solar systems
Detailed guide to the many specifications to consider when designing an off-grid solar system or complete hybrid energy storage system. Plus, a guide to the best grid-interactive and off-grid inverters and hybrid solar inverters for residential and commercial energy storage.
Best Solar Inverters 2025
We review the best grid-connect solar inverters from the worlds leading manufacturers Fronius, SMA, SolarEdge, Fimer, Sungrow, Huawei, Goodwe, Solis and many more to decide who offers the highest quality and most reliable solar string inverters for residential and commercial solar.
SMA Inverter Review
SMA is a world-renowned solar inverter manufacturer and one of the few companies to offer inverters designed for residential, commercial and utility-scale grid-tie systems, as well as advanced off-grid systems. We review the full range of inverters including the popular SMA sunny boy range and powerful Tripower inverters used for larger commercial solar systems.
Battery Life Explained - How to Prolong the Life of Lithium Batteries
Evidence shows that deep discharging Lithium (LFP) batteries increases aging and reduces battery life. In this article we explain what causes accerated battery capacity loss and how to prolong the life of your battery system. We also highlight other issues which can occur when batteries are deeply discharged.
Latest Solar Panel Technology
We examine the latest solar panels and explain how advanced PV cell technologies help improve performance and efficiency, plus we highlight the most advanced panels from the leading manufacturers. Learn about recent innovations such as micro busbars, high-density heterojunction and TOPCon N-type cells.