Electriq Power, a provider of intelligent and integrated home energy storage solutions, signed an agreement with the city of Santa Barbara to launch the Santa Barbara Home Power Program, which will deliver affordable, sustainable and resilient energy to Santa Barbara County residents through fully financed residential solar microgrids.
Electriq’s energy storage solution, the PowerPod 2, will be the intelligent home battery used by the program.
Through the program’s city-vetted power purchase agreement, Santa Barbara County homeowners, regardless of means, will have access to Electriq’s smart home energy storage system, which is recharged by the included solar power system. The system will help achieve the program’s key goal of offsetting 100% of each home’s electricity consumption, providing immediate savings over annual utility costs.
The intelligence and networking features built into the PowerPod 2 enable users to avoid peak pricing spikes and benefit from resilience in the event of public safety power shutoffs, as well as support the region’s vulnerable electrical infrastructure.
Conventional solar power systems without storage do not function during blackouts and add stress to the grid. When deployed across the entire county, the future fleet of solar + storage microgrids will enable a more evolved grid to emerge as electrification and distributed energy resource (DER) deployments accelerate, while providing assets that can be utilized for decades.
