Solar panels with a battery in Spain: when does storage pay off?

Without a battery self-consumption sits around 40–50%; with correctly sized storage it goes past 80%. Storage pays off for permanently occupied homes with evening load, weak single-phase supplies and home EV charging. We install Deye and Solplanet hybrid inverters with 16 kWh LVTOPSUN batteries, expandable to 32 kWh.

## Which brands we fit, and why Most readers of this guide end up searching for a specific brand: Huawei inverter, Huawei LUNA battery, Deye inverter or Solplanet. On villas in Marbella and Estepona with palm shade we usually propose [Huawei inverters](/inversores-huawei) with optimisers or the [LUNA2000 battery](/bateria-huawei-luna2000); on the clear roofs of Vélez-Málaga, the Axarquía, Cártama, Coín or Alhaurín de la Torre a [Deye hybrid](/inversor-deye) with Pylontech or LVTOPSUN cells performs almost identically for considerably less. We install, legalise and maintain with our own crew from Coín. ## Solar with a battery in Málaga and Marbella Homes that are empty part of the year, which is common for second homes in [Marbella](/solar-marbella), [Estepona](/solar-estepona) and [Nerja](/solar-nerja), get the most out of a battery combined with a virtual battery contract. A villa with 8 kWp and 10 kWh of storage covers roughly 80% of its own consumption on the Costa del Sol, around EUR 13,750 turnkey. Apartments in [Málaga city](/solar-malaga) usually do better with 3 kWp and surplus compensation. Read the [virtual battery comparison](/bateria-virtual) or [ask for a quote in English](/contact).