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In an era of soaring energy costs, climate uncertainty, and aging grid infrastructure, homeowners are no longer content with basic energy solutions to power modern homes. Meet the FranklinWH System—an innovative holistic home energy management and storage solution that strengthens the household energy ecosystem. Beyond traditional solar panels or standalone batteries, it’s an advanced energy solution that incorporates solar, battery, the grid, generator, and EV, and is intelligently managed by the aGate energy controller and the FranklinWH App, allowing homes to operate as self-reliant microgrids, maximizing renewables, maintaining whole-home backup when the grid fails, and enabling 100% energy freedom.
This article will unlock how each part of the FranklinWH system—from the aGate intelligent controller, the aPower battery, an advanced smartphone app, and other components —collaborate to support a more intelligent, democratic, and versatile home energy ecosystem.
FranklinWH aGate: The Intelligent Controller to Manage Home Energy Distribution
Self-Consumption Mode: Maximizing Clean Energy Use
In Self-Consumption mode, the aGate ensures that every watt of solar energy generated is used to its full potential. Solar power is prioritized to meet immediate household demands, with surplus energy stored in the aPower battery. When solar power is insufficient, the aGate transitions to drawing from the battery, minimizing reliance on grid electricity.
Time of Use (TOU) Mode: Avoid Expensive Peak Hour Grid Power
In regions where electricity rates vary throughout the day, the aGate can leverage time-based electricity pricing to optimize costs. During peak rate hours when grid power is most expensive, the system prioritizes solar and battery power to avoid costly grid imports. During low-rate periods, the aGate intelligently mixes the use of power from solar and battery power with cheaper grid electricity based on what’s most economical at the time.
Emergency Backup Mode: Power Outage Proof
In Emergency Backup mode, the aGate prioritizes maintaining the aPower battery at full charge using solar and grid power, reserving stored energy exclusively for outages. When the grid fails, the aGate isolates the home from the grid (called “islanding”) to prevent power backfeed, while the aPower battery automatically powers household loads within milliseconds. Once grid power is restored, the system automates the recharging of the aPower battery.
FranklinWH App: Empowering Homeowners with Real-Time Control
The hidden center of FranklinWH intelligence is a cloud platform. Data is constantly uploaded from the aGate to the cloud and is then available for analysis and control via the FranklinWH App that puts comprehensive energy management in the palm of your hand. Homeowners can monitor real-time energy production and consumption, switch between operating modes, and customize settings to suit your lifestyle.
The FranklinWH App is energy management at your fingertips, whenever and wherever it is needed.
FranklinWH aPower: Advanced Battery Storage
The aPower series home battery is another core part of the FranklinWH System. It works as an energy buffer, capturing surplus solar energy and filling in shortages to keep things running continuously.
FranklinWH puts battery safety and reliability as top priority. With an advanced built-in battery management system (BMS), the aPower battery stands out with exceptional capability of thermal management, handling charging uniformity of cells, and monitoring insulation integrity, and ensuring long-term rock-solid performance.
Controlled by the aGate, the aPower battery stores and supplies clean energy, aligns with the TOU Tariffs to cut grid costs, powers your entire home during outages, and even exports energy back to the grid to earn extra revenue.
The aPower 2 is the latest model of the aPower series. A single unit offers an impressive 15 kWh capacity with a 10 kW continuous power output, sufficient to support whole-home energy needs. Engineered with an IP67 weatherproof rating and a wide temperature range from -4° F to 131° F, the aPower 2 is built for harsh environments.
With a scalability of up to 225 kWh (15 units) per aGate, and backward compatibility with previous versions, the aPower 2 future-proofs your energy upgrades without overhauling your systems.
Other FranklinWH Components: Empower More Intelligent and Flexible Home Energy Management and Storage
FranklinWH aPbox
A home energy management and storage system usually has a fixed solar input limit to meet normal use. The aPbox provides a separate solar access that allows homeowners to easily expand their solar systems to increase solar input as their energy needs grow, intelligently managing the additional solar strings— enabling more energy storage, exporting additional energy to the grid, and disconnecting the added system when it's overproduced during off-grid.
Additionally, the aPbox has the ability to protect legacy net metering agreements. In regions where homeowners benefit from favorable NEM 1.0 or NEM 2.0 rates, adding new solar capacity can risk disqualifying the entire system from those legacy terms. The aPbox solves this by separating the new solar additions from the original system when interacting with the grid.
Smart Circuits
The FranklinWH Smart Circuits Module allows homeowners to gain independent control over specific high-power devices, such as EV or A/C, scheduling their runtime individually for more flexible energy management.
Generator Module
The Generator Module is an optional FranklinWH aGate component that facilitates automatic switchover to a backup generator when needed during long outages, enabling a more versatile energy management solution.
You can alternatively use this module to tap into the EV battery, integrating the mobile energy source into the FranklinWH energy ecosystem.
FranklinWH Split CT Kit
The Split CT Kit accurately measures the electricity flow of pre-existing subpanels or PV systems configured in a way that prevents the aGate from directly tracking their power flow. A Split CT collects data and feeds it into the aGate's monitoring system.
Main Load Relay for Black Start
The Main Load Relay improves black start reliability, the ability to restart your FranklinWH System during an extended blackout, while the grid has not yet been restored. As a reliable black start requires sufficient battery reserve, the Main Load Relay automatically disconnects home loads until the battery is sufficiently charged by solar after which it reconnects all the loads and returns power to your home.
Backup Expansion Lug Kit
This kit provides extra connection points that allow you to add more aPower battery units to the system beyond the standard limit. It makes scaling up your energy storage easier and faster, supporting larger homes and increasing energy needs without a major system change.
Conclusion
The FranklinWH System is a robust solution that integrates multiple energy sources and provide power in a controlled and intelligent manner to improve your home energy ecosystem. It is a comprehensive solution to modern energy challenges, combining innovative modules to create a highly resilient, efficient, scalable, and adaptive home energy network, helping homeowners to ultimately achieve energy autonomy.
