The Pitch | Selling points of SMA's Home Energy Solution

SMA is putting an emphasis on efficiency with its SMA Home Energy Solution for the U.S. home solar + storage market.
SMA Home Energy Storage includes the Sunny Boy Smart Energy (SBSE) hybrid inverter, the SMA Energy Meter, optional Backup Secure, the SMA 360° app, SMA ShadeFix and the SMA Energy app. SMA also has partnership with SPAN for circuit-level smarts and load management. Here to make The Pitch is Senior Applications Engineer Hasan Taylor.
0:50 - Why should solar installers go back to string inverters?
1:34 - Quick demo of hybrid inverter installation
3:12 - SMA ShadeFix vs. module-level optimization
4:13 - Importance of DC oversizing with energy storage
5:49 - SMA Backup Secure - Solar energy when grid goes down
7:08 - Battery specs: Capacity and Output Power
9:29 - Can I use a different battery? (and should you?)
10:24 - SPAN smart electric panel partnership
11:29 - SMA 360 app and SMA Energy app
12:39 - SMA Smart Connected free monitoring service
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[@calmorton1680]

Not sure where to start, loyal string inverter installation company, SMA and Fronius, transitioned to Sol-Ark when for backup and off-grid, when we could no longer rationalize grid-tied was the only way to go in Texas. The long delayed intro of the new platform is welcome, but find it very underwhelming, a disappointment is more accurate. No parallel capability out of the gate, 7.7 max, one battery supplier, which he didn't say would be available, still hawking the SPS like it's off-grid alternative. The best thing I can say about the new model is that we get 15A per MPPT. So essentially, it's still a grid-tied sale, with option of becoming a big boy hybrid system in the future for those that can wait. Poo Poo

[@ridemfast7625]

An approach others take is to rush products into the market place without good design, testing, manufacturing and over sell, over promise and under deliver, those products creating reliability and support issues for the customer. Other brands may offer more, and perhaps even for less cost, but I wont install those at my house.

[@gregcollins3404]

Holy delay Batman! I've been a loyal SMA installer since 2008 and have been waiting 1-1/2 years to get availability of ANY SMA residential product. I believe in SMA quality and design philosophy but they are killing themselves in the marketplace. I can't yet even get the actual installation manual to find out the details of how the battery backup capability works..... 2kW of battery backed power is not enough to justify the expense of batteries.

[@solarteam7295]

why would sma Australia send us foreign spam when we cant buy theses yet ? .... what still in CEC heard that before

[@mauriciomedina9612]

I don't particularly appreciate that the SMA inverter is a battery brand-specific component. There are plenty of good same-chemistry (LiFePO 4) batteries out there that have the ability to safely and effectively interface with SMA. Many folks have them and should be able to buy an SMA and simply connect without investing in a proprietary battery.