26/6/2025
3 min

How Does FlexiO Impact the Lifespan of Your Home Battery?

Use your home battery smart with FlexiO. You'll get more efficiency, less injection cost and maximum value out of every charge cycle. Find out all about your home battery life.

Home Battery

The biggest mistake you can make with a smart home battery? Not using them for fear of wear and tear. Smart home batteries help you increase self-consumption, save on your energy bills and contribute to a more stable power grid. Yet we often hear the same question, "Won't my battery wear out faster if I let it be smart?"

The answer: no. More than that, by using your battery actively and smartly, you just get more value out of it. All without sacrificing battery life and warranty. In this blog, we explain why that's the case.

What Determines the Lifespan of a Home Battery?

Most home batteries come with two warranty terms:

  • 10-year operating warranty
  • 6000 charge cycles (one charge cycle = one full charge and discharge)

After 6000 cycles, your battery is not immediately "worn out," but the manufacturer no longer guarantees a certain storage capacity. Still, in many cases it remains usable, especially with smart use.

How Quickly Do You Reach Those 6,000 Charge Cycles?

It depends on how intensively your battery is used.

With daily charging and discharging, you reach 6000 cycles after about 16.5 years. That's considerably more than the 10-year warranty period.

How quickly your battery reaches the 6,000 charge cycle mark depends entirely on how intensively you use it. The more often you fully charge and discharge your battery, i.e., a full charge cycle, the faster you will reach this number.

In a scenario where your battery is actively used on a daily basis, such as in a household with high energy consumption or with smart steering that takes full advantage of available solar energy and market opportunities every day, you will average one full cycle per day.

Smart Use Pays Off: More Than Just Saving

Daily use, even with smart and intensive control, does not accelerate the end of your battery, but ensures that you minimize the payback period of your investment. Every action FlexiO takes includes all costs. That includes the wear or degradation cost and the energy losses associated with it(read more). This way, FlexiO will only make a decision if it has a net benefit to you.

With a smart energy management system like FlexiO, your battery doesn't just get charged every day, either. The software takes into account the weather, market prices, your consumption and the needs of the grid. That ensures:

  • Optimal timing of charging/discharging
  • Efficient use of solar energy
  • Reduced injection costs
  • Higher yield

And yes, sometimes that means: your battery is not fully charged on a sunny day. But that's just smart. Because then there's still room to store energy at times when it really pays off both for you and for your wallet.

What Happens at the End of Life?

Over time, the capacity of your battery decreases. But that doesn't mean it's unusable. Often it remains usable for less intensive applications for years to come. Moreover, there are programs for reuse and recycling, which also reduces your carbon footprint.

Make Your Battery Work for You

Using your battery too intensively can cause it to wear out too quickly. Not using your battery also causes wear and tear. But FlexiO takes these extremes into account, ensuring maximum return on your investment. A battery always has a finite lifespan.

Many people think that it is better to use their battery as little as possible to prolong its life. But that's a misconception. Because a properly tuned system with smart control will actually ensure that your battery is used efficiently and sustainably.

In short, an active battery is a cost-effective battery. Smart deployment is not the same as overuse. It means acting strategically for maximum technical and financial benefit.

And what about you? You make the most of your home battery. Day after day.

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