In addition to financial benefit of free electricity, producing the necessary energy for the needs of your home is part of an approach similar to growing your garden or cutting wood to heat your home. The motivations that have driven users of IMEON solutions to make their homes self-sufficient are diverse, but the ones that stand out most frequently are:

The feeling of “freedom” that comes from producing the electricity.

The satisfaction of benefiting from free electricity once the equipment is acquired.

Security of electricity supply detached from the economic, political (etc.) context.

The satisfaction of contributing to a sustainable energy model by abandoning the polluting energy sources.

Thanks to the technological progress and the declining prices of solar panels and batteries, living in an autonomous house is no longer a utopia. It is now possible and increasingly affordable to bypass the conventional electricity suppliers without sacrificing comfort.

One of the advantages of solar installations is also the lifespan of photovoltaic modules. Most of the photovoltaic panels manufacturers give guarantees of 10 years or more and the feedback from the field shows that the lifespan of solar panels very often exceeds 30 years. This lifetime allows users to invest for the long term and to benefit from free electricity for years to come.

In addition to the proven economic aspect, being equipped with a solar installation combine with batteries to produce its own electricity (self-consumption – self-production), is a sustainable investment contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions and the development of a new and inevitable energy model.

Positive energy homes are meant to contribute to the wellbeing of the planet.

Positive energy homes and territories are growing and are a big step towards contributing to durable development of the planet. Solar energy is the most efficient source of renewable energy, it is free, unlimited and it is the easiest to access for property owners willing to produce electricity by themselves. The concept of a positive energy self-sufficient house dictates that the house must be able to cover the full energy demand by prioritizing free and renewable energies over the fossil fuels. The energy generated by the positive energy home’s solar system can be used for self-consumption or sold to an electricity distributor, or both. To reduce the dependence on harmful fossil fuels, IMEON ENERGY has developed a revolutionary hybrid inverter, IMEON, to contribute to the wellbeing of the planet by giving priority to renewable energies to produce its electricity in the positive energy home.

The solution to these problems is to achieve energy independence. Energy self-sufficiency means separating from electricity suppliers by self-producing renewable energy.

The IMEON Hybrid Inverter, as an all-in-one unit with integrated MPPT solar controller, battery charger, backup output and a public network input, is the ideal system for maximally self-sufficient house.

IMEON Hybrid Inverter is able to manage multiple sources of power in real time, in order to supply the connected loads. Unlike the traditional inverters which feed all the solar electricity to grid without knowing the consumption of the house, the IMEON hybrid inverter will use only the necessary solar production to supply the loads. The excess solar energy production will be used to recharge the battery. It is also possible to configure the inverter to block injection to the public electricity network in case of overproduction (low consumption and full battery). In this case, the inverter will automatically adjust the MPPT controller to reduce the production.

This process makes it possible to shift the use of the energy produced over daytime to use it when the solar production is no longer sufficient to supply the consumption of the building, by discharging the battery. The rate of self-production will therefore increase with aim to get as close as possible to 100% to have a self-sufficient house.

IMEON Hybrid Inverter can also learn from an AI (Artificial Intelligence) that allows it to make decisions, learn consumption patterns and therefore adapt the flow of energy in order to further increase the energy independence of the house and make the most of free electricity.

Lead-acid batteries, used for decades (GEL, AGM, OpZs, OpZv, VRLA…) are giving way to lithium batteries, lighter, with higher energy densities and longer life spans.

When designing your photovoltaic installation which includes a solar battery, it is important to ensure compatibility of the chosen storage system with the IMEON inverter. The management of a lithium solar battery is complex and requires a development effort to assure that the communication between the battery BMS and the IMEON EMS is effective. Without such communication, the use of a lithium solar battery presents significant risks (explosions, fires …).

IMEON solar inverters are a concentrate of technology and innovation. The implementation of an artificial intelligence allows IMEON to understand its environment and to adapt its energy management strategy while respecting the objectives of the user: autonomy, lowering the energy bill, securing the power supply…

IMEON solar inverter for self-consumption is the heart of your solar system. IMEON displays a genuine consciousness as it learns, predicts, anticipates and adapts its operation using machine learning processes, aiming to make the best choices to increase your autonomy. IMEON is the only inverter that anticipates the future. Its unparalleled capabilities, unique in the market, allow it to constantly evolve and accommodate new features, thus increasing its profitability.

• the economies of scale associated with the increase in production volumes of all the components necessary for the operation of a solar installation,
• improvement of the overall efficiency of solar system components, modules, inverters and batteries,
• the arrival of IMEON hybrid inverters to the market, which increased the performance of photovoltaic installations with storage by up to 30%.

These distinct determinants have brought the cost of kWh produced by the solar system down by a factor of 4 in the last 5 years, thus making solar electricity prices competitive enough to reach grid parity.

We talk about grid parity when the price of a kWh produced by a photovoltaic installation becomes competitive with one offered by conventional energy suppliers.

Grid parity has already been achieved in many countries, such as Germany, which do not benefit from particularly generous sunshine. As the cost of fossil fuels continues to increase, the grid parity will gradually be reached all over the world and as a consequence, solar electricity will take a leading role in global energy supply.

The constant growth of the world’s population, the ever-increasing demand for electricity driving progress in the developing areas as well as the rising number of electrical appliances per household in the developed countries have significantly increased global energy demand.

On the other hand the volume of the available fossil fuels (oil, gas, uranium, etc.) declines. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) assuming that the planets population will continue to rise at the current rate and reach 9 billion in the next 40 years, the reserves of gas and oil will fall by 40 to 60% by 2030.

As with all existing markets, a falling supply (reserves) combined with an increase in demand inevitably leads to the growth of prices.

Contrary to that, renewable energies by definition, have no supply limit. The energy from the sun is exploitable on the whole surface of the globe. It’s also, in essence, a source of free electricity.