Briggs & Stratton Energy Solutions provides an entire line of equipment certified by UL according to the 9540 standard: SimpliPHI® 6.6 Battery System, PHI batteries, AccESS, BOSS.6, and BOSS.12. This allows more than 60 different, scalable combinations of resilient, reliable, and safe battery storage solutions for homes and businesses.
In addition to our unparalleled standard of safety and performance, our solutions are not ‘one-size-fits-all.’ Now, you can customize a wide range of cost-effective critical backup and renewable battery systems to optimize the battery storage you need, from single-family homes to multi-family apartments to commercial buildings and operations.
Briggs & Stratton systems can be sized appropriately to reduce or eliminate utility time-of-use (TOU) and demand charges. They can also be paired with solar panels to power loads and charge the batteries when the grid is down or to back up specific appliances during power outages. We focus on empowering customers to take control of their energy, make informed decisions, and get the energy and power requirements they want — and ensure it’s just what they need.
What is UL 9540, and why does it matter?
UL 9540 is the most stringent safety standard for battery energy storage systems installed in homes and businesses. UL 9540 takes the guesswork out of understanding system safety. It ensures battery storage devices meet certification requirements specified in building and fire codes. It assures customers that their batteries and balance-of-system equipment will perform and not create hazards. Customers are encouraged to ask any system installer or vendor if their proposed solution is UL 9540 certified and request a solution approved for its safety and performance.
Home blackouts averted
On average, homeowners can lose power several times a year. But in many parts of the country, planned and unplanned power outages are becoming much more frequent and disruptive to daily life, sometimes with substantial financial losses. Even with solar panels on your roof, unless complementary battery storage is installed when the grid goes down, so do your PV panels, leaving you in the dark.
Typically, a backup power system will be designed to meet your need to support ‘essential loads’ — a refrigerator, communications, and some limited lighting—what you consider ‘essential’ in a power outage. In an average house, that is about 8–10 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy consumption per day.
With Briggs & Stratton’s SimpliPHI® 6.6 Battery System, AccESS™ with PHI™ 3.8 kWh batteries, you can get anywhere from 15.2 kWh to 22.8 kWh—nearly three days of critical load backup power.
Suppose you prefer a solution that covers your entire home and critical loads (or your needs are higher than average). In that case, you can explore the SimpliPHI® 6.6 Battery System or upgrade and add more backup power by adding one of our BOSS.6 cabinets, which can hold up to six more PHI 3.8 kWh batteries, bringing your total available power up to 45.6 kWh. Depending on your energy needs, it could provide nearly two days of backup for powering your entire home or six days of managing your critical power needs.
All these flexible options can easily be combined with existing solar systems or new solar installations, allowing solar+storage homeowners to take control and store their own reliable power to use during outages until the electric grid is restored. These systems can also be cycled daily when the grid is operational to save money by offsetting or eliminating time-of-use (TOU) and utility demand charges!
Uninterruptible businesses
When it comes to your small business, you have enough to worry about without stressing over how much money you might lose when the power goes out. Often referred to as the value of lost load (VOLL), without electricity, businesses will come to a halt: you can’t process payments, refrigeration is lost, you can’t serve customers online or in person and your employees cannot complete basic operational tasks.
VOLL will vary quite a bit depending on the type of business impacted and can range from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands per hour.
Thinking of a small retail business, when the power is off, your computers and most cash registers go down, you can no longer process credit or digital payments, your lights are off, and you are, in effect, closed.
Now, add a scalable Briggs & Stratton battery storage backup. You can power a home with our larger BOSS.12 cabinet for up to 68.4 kWh of resilient and safe backup power, running up to 18 kW of loads at 240 volts to meet essential power needs.
That may seem technical, but it means you can keep your critical systems running, keep your doors open, and ensure your customers can enjoy your products and services in person and online. Combined with solar or another generation source, you’ll never have to shut your doors just because the grid goes down again.
Powering small commercial, resilient operations
For smaller commercial and industrial customers and those who need three-phase power (up to 27 kW at 208 volts), Briggs & Stratton has UL 9540-certified solutions that can be combined and scaled to meet their needs.
Our solutions create scalable mix-and-match options so that you can customize large systems with SimpliPHI® 6.6 Battery System or 3 AccESS + Sol-Ark 12 kW inverters, built with six PHI batteries each (18 total), and add a BOSS.6 and a BOSS.12 cabinet for a solution with three-phase power and a total of 136.8 kWh of battery storage to ensure your business is resilient, allowing employees to continue critical functions. Additional BOSS cabinets can be added to your configuration for even more power and energy, allowing even more flexibility.
Scalable — from small homes to businesses — Briggs & Stratton Energy Solutions has a flexible and dynamic platform to build from that is UL 9540 certified for safety and performance to meet your needs.
Our network of distributors and installers will never force you into a one-size-fits-all solution. We will work with you to get the right-sized resilient power in your hands, with quicker permitting and installation times than non-UL 9540 certified products, saving you both time and money.
Learn more about Briggs & Stratton’s full line of battery storage.
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