Background:
Adding battery storage to a solar system will allow the customer to export solar when local energy demand is at its highest. Installers now have the ability to quote PPA’s + storage in the state of California.
When a battery is added to a project and PPA is selected in the quote phase, a quote method dropdown list will pop up. There, the installer can choose to quote the Full project (solar + storage together) or as Solar and Storage separately. Installers may not know how to highlight the cost savings for these two scenarios because the most common way to quote PPAs is by solar rate, not total cost.
When creating a quote and selecting Full Project the installer has the option to set the install cost as the quote term:
Note, if the installer gets an error when attempting to quote the full project based on install cost it is likely because the battery price is not stored in the equipment inventory:
To check, navigate to the user settings for the Org > Project Phase > Storage:
In the example below the batteries have no associated retail cost:
Org Admins have the ability to set costs on batteries. Otherwise, the installer can quote solar and storage separately within the quote to show cost benefits of storage without skewing the solar rate:
