Backup planning
We identify the circuits you want protected — kitchen, water, medical, office — and size storage to them.
Kaimana Energy · Storage
Keep the essentials running when the grid goes down — and use more of the solar you already make.
Overview
Outages are a fact of life on Maui. Battery storage turns your home into something steadier: lights, refrigeration, internet, and water pumps keep running, and your solar keeps working for you into the evening instead of being sent back to the grid.
Kaimana Energy designs battery systems — including Tesla Powerwall — around what actually matters to your household. We map your critical circuits, size the storage to match, and integrate it with your panel and solar so the switchover during an outage is seamless and automatic.
What a storage project includes
We identify the circuits you want protected — kitchen, water, medical, office — and size storage to them.
Tesla Powerwall and other quality batteries, matched to your home rather than a one-size default.
Storage is tied into new or existing solar so daytime production charges the battery, not just the grid.
Seamless islanding so protected circuits stay live through an outage without you flipping anything.
Optional smart panel integration for circuit-level control and monitoring from your phone.
App monitoring configured and explained so you can see charge, usage, and backup status at a glance.
The difference
Protected circuits stay on automatically when the grid drops — no generator to start.
Store daytime production and draw on it at night instead of buying power back.
No fuel, no noise, no fumes — storage runs silently in the background.
Serving all of Maui
Common questions
It depends on which circuits you want to back up and for how long. We start by mapping your critical loads, then size storage to keep those running comfortably. Some homes want to cover essentials for a day; others want whole-home backup. We design to your goal.
In most cases, yes. We assess your current solar and panel setup and design a storage addition that integrates with it. If your system needs a small upgrade to support backup, we will tell you clearly before any work.
Yes — that is the point. With battery storage and automatic transfer, your protected circuits keep running when Hawaiian Electric goes down, and your solar continues charging the battery during the day.
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