Serving Los Lunas
Get Battery Storage in Los Lunas, NM
Home battery storage in Los Lunas costs $10,000–$20,000 installed, with a 13–15 kWh unit backing up essential circuits for 8–12 hours. On valley acreage in Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia — where the well pump is the water supply — backup power is about more than convenience.
300+ days of sunshine per year in Los Lunas. Los Lunas is PNM territory: exported solar earns full retail-rate credit, 1:1, with credits banking on your bill from sunny months into winter.
We serve these Los Lunas neighborhoods:
Los Lunas Hills, Huning Ranch, Valencia, Tome, El Cerro
Battery Storage in Los Lunas: What to Know
300+ days of sunshine
Sun Days
$155/month avg.
Avg. Electric Bill
Excellent — 6.3 peak sun hours
Solar Potential
Moderate — monsoon season
Hail Risk
Village of Los Lunas Community Development
Permit Office
Newer subdivisions & valley acreage homes
Housing Stock
Water Security Is Backup Power in the Valley
In Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia, a grid outage doesn't just turn off the lights — it stops the well pump, and household water stops with it once the pressure tank runs down. That reframes what a battery is for out here. On valley properties we design backup around the pump circuit first, then layer refrigeration, lighting, and communications in behind it.
Newer Homes, Simpler Installs
In Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills, installation is usually straightforward — modern garages, newer electrical panels, and clean wall space suit today's wall-mounted units. For these first-owner homes the real conversation is sizing for where the household is headed: an EV charger in the garage, a heat pump down the road, a home office that can't drop offline. We size from your PNM usage history and what's coming, not just what's there today.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Installed Los Lunas battery projects run $10,000–$20,000 depending on capacity and how much of the house you want backed up. A single 13–15 kWh unit carries essential circuits for 8–12 hours; adding a well pump or going whole-home changes the design. Batteries charged by solar qualify for New Mexico's refundable 10% state credit, and we handle the EMNRD paperwork.
Yes, with the right design. Well pumps draw a hard surge of current at startup, so the battery's inverter has to be sized for that spike, not just the running load — and sometimes a soft-start device makes the whole system smaller and cheaper. We measure your pump circuit during the site visit and design the critical-loads panel around it.
In the subdivisions, it's the modern-life short list: refrigerator, internet and a home-office circuit, lights, and the furnace fan — enough to work and live normally through an outage. On valley properties the well pump joins that list immediately, since when the pump loses power, water stops at whatever the pressure tank holds. Tell us what has to stay on; we design the circuits around that.
Los Lunas is PNM territory, so exported solar energy earns a full retail-rate credit, 1:1, banked on your bill month to month. With 300+ sunny days a year in the Rio Grande valley, most Los Lunas solar homes bank enough summer credit to carry their winter usage.
The Village of Los Lunas Community Development department issues building and electrical permits inside village limits; homes in unincorporated Valencia County — Tome, El Cerro, Valencia — permit through the county. Epex routes and files the right package either way, along with PNM interconnection paperwork for solar and battery projects.
We schedule Los Lunas and Valencia County work in dedicated crew blocks from our Albuquerque base, about 25 minutes up I-25 — close enough for same-week service calls, structured enough that your install doesn't lose days to commuting. Huning Ranch, Los Lunas Hills, Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia are all regular territory for us.