Source: Slashdot: Hardware
Residential battery adoption is accelerating past solar adoption, driven by rate increases and time-of-use pricing that make storage financially rational for middle-income households rather than just early adopters. Distributed batteries reduce grid peak demand, which utilities compensate for through higher off-peak rates, further incentivizing home storage and fragmenting the traditional load profile grid operators have relied on for decades. Battery installation is no longer a luxury investment—it's competitive with paying higher electricity bills.