Serving Albuquerque
Get Battery Storage in Albuquerque, NM
Home battery storage in Albuquerque costs $10,000–$20,000 installed. A 13–15 kWh battery carries essential loads for 8–12 hours through PNM outages — winter storms, monsoon lightning, grid work — and pairs with solar so your daytime production runs your evenings instead of exporting at sundown.
310+ days of sunshine per year in Albuquerque. PNM credits Albuquerque solar homes at the full retail rate for every kilowatt-hour exported — 1:1 net metering, with credits rolling forward on your bill month to month.
We serve these Albuquerque neighborhoods:
Four Hills, Nob Hill, Tanoan, High Desert, North Valley, South Valley, Northeast Heights, Westside, Corrales, Los Ranchos, Taylor Ranch, Paradise Hills, Sandia Heights, Ventana Ranch, Uptown, Old Town
Battery Storage in Albuquerque: What to Know
310+ days of sunshine
Sun Days
$120/month avg.
Avg. Electric Bill
Excellent — 6.4 peak sun hours
Solar Potential
Moderate — monsoon season
Hail Risk
City of Albuquerque Planning Dept.
Permit Office
Ranch & Pueblo-style, many 35+ years old
Housing Stock
Backup Power, Sized for How Albuquerque Actually Loses It
Albuquerque outages come in three flavors: winter storms, monsoon-season lightning, and planned grid maintenance. Most last minutes to hours, not days — which is why a right-sized battery covering essential circuits beats an oversized system on price and still keeps the house livable through virtually every real event. We design the backup footprint from your PNM usage data and what you actually need running: refrigerator, furnace fan, internet, garage door, medical equipment.
The metro's older housing stock adds one wrinkle: many pre-2000 homes from the Heights to the Westside carry 100-amp panels that can't take a battery circuit or critical-loads subpanel without an upgrade. We install panels, batteries, and solar in-house, so that discovery happens at the site visit — priced into one City of Albuquerque permit package — not as a mid-project surprise from a third contractor.
Home battery systems in New Mexico cost $10,000–$20,000 installed. A single battery (13–15 kWh) carries essential loads — refrigerator, lights, internet, furnace fan, medical equipment — for 8–12 hours during an outage, and pairing storage with solar lets you use your own daytime production at night instead of exporting it to PNM for a credit. Epex installs Tesla Powerwall, Enphase IQ, and FranklinWH systems with 10-year manufacturer warranties, $0-down financing, and the option to fold a battery into a solar lease or PPA.
What a Battery Actually Does for You
- Outage backup — Winter storms, monsoon lightning, and grid maintenance all cause outages across New Mexico. A battery bridges them automatically, switching over in milliseconds.
- Self-consumption — Store your solar surplus and run the house on it after sundown. How much this is worth depends on how your utility credits exported energy — where export credits are weak, a battery does the arithmetic the grid won't.
- Load management — Whole-home backup or a critical-loads panel: we design the backup footprint around what your household actually needs to keep running, not a one-size spec sheet.
Systems We Install
- Tesla Powerwall 3 — 13.5 kWh, integrated inverter, the most requested unit we install
- Enphase IQ Battery 5P — Modular, scales in 5 kWh steps, pairs natively with Enphase microinverter systems
- FranklinWH — 13.6 kWh, whole-home backup capable, excellent monitoring app
All three carry 10-year manufacturer warranties. We size the system from your actual usage data and your outage priorities, then handle permitting, interconnection paperwork with PNM, and inspection.
When to Add Storage
The cheapest time is during the initial solar installation — shared wiring, one permit package, and a system designed for storage from day one. But retrofits are routine for us: we've added batteries to our own older installs and to systems other companies put in. If your existing inverter or electrical panel limits your options, we'll say so upfront and price the fix honestly — we install panels and electrical upgrades in-house, so there's no hand-off between contractors.
What Our Albuquerque Customers Say
After the power outages last winter, we added battery storage to our existing solar system. Epex made it seamless — same crew that did our original install came back and had everything running in a day. Total peace of mind now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Installed Albuquerque battery projects run $10,000–$20,000 depending on capacity and backup scope. A single 13–15 kWh unit covers essential circuits; whole-home backup usually means two units or a critical-loads redesign. Batteries qualify for New Mexico's 10% state credit when charged by solar — we handle the EMNRD paperwork.
For pure economics, PNM's retail-rate net metering already banks your surplus — so Albuquerque batteries earn their keep on resilience: keeping the refrigerator, furnace fan, internet, and medical equipment running through outages. If PNM's net-metering terms ever tighten for new customers, battery-ready systems are positioned for it.
Tesla Powerwall 3 is our most-requested install; Enphase IQ 5P is the pick when you're on Enphase microinverters or want modular expansion; FranklinWH shines for whole-home backup. All three carry 10-year warranties and handle Albuquerque's garage temperature swings — we'll size from your actual PNM usage data.
PNM credits you at the full retail electricity rate for every kilowatt-hour your system exports — true 1:1 net metering. Credits bank on your bill and roll forward, so summer overproduction offsets winter usage. Most Albuquerque solar homes end up paying close to PNM's minimum monthly service charge.
Epex files and manages every permit through the City of Albuquerque Planning Department, including electrical and building permits, plus PNM interconnection paperwork for solar and battery projects. Homes in unincorporated Bernalillo County or the East Mountains permit through the county instead — we handle that routing too.
The two forces that matter here are UV and monsoon season. At 5,300 feet with 310+ sunny days, UV ages shingles and cheap solar components faster than national averages, and July–September monsoons bring hail and hard rain. We spec Class 4 impact-rated shingles and tier-1 panels rated for high-desert service.
All of them — Northeast Heights, Westside, North and South Valley, Nob Hill, High Desert, Four Hills, Taylor Ranch, and the East Mountains, plus Los Ranchos and the metro's surrounding communities. Our crews are based in Albuquerque, so there's no travel surcharge anywhere in the metro.