Overview
- SOLRITE announced the Illinois rollout Thursday, offering qualifying ComEd and Ameren customers rooftop solar with a company‑owned 60 kWh home battery and a 25‑year PPA at $0.12 per kWh.
- The packaged battery is a Duracell Power Center made of 12 × 5 kWh LFP modules with 15 kW continuous output and SOLRITE says it can power essential loads for days depending on household use and charge state.
- SOLRITE will finance, own, operate, and maintain the systems, keep federal clean‑energy tax credits and Illinois Shines renewable credits, and say those incentives plus grid‑service revenue underwrite the no‑money‑down offer.
- The company plans to aggregate installed batteries into a virtual power plant that can begin charging or discharging in about 30 seconds, but it has not disclosed expected enrollment or total VPP capacity.
- The program responds to Illinois’s January 1, 2025 switch from full‑retail net metering to supply‑only credits that cut the value of exported solar and made on‑site storage and retrofit battery adds more attractive to homeowners.