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150 watt-hours and 13,500. Both store electricity at home, with a factor of ninety between them. In between sit six categories, and each one exists because the previous one runs into a wall. All six written out: what each category adds, where it stops, what the kilowatt-hours cost, and which connection it needs.
Salespeople say a plug-in battery can't trade. That's true for one of the three meanings of that word, and not for the other two. Here's which brands you can control locally, why your energy supplier is the real bottleneck, and why a cheap hour can still cost you money — with the 590-day backtest that backs it up.
Almost 90,000 home batteries were added in the Netherlands in 2025. More than half of new sales are now plug-in units, and a large share of those appear in no official register at all. Not because they are exempt: reporting is mandatory, below 800 watts too. Here are all the numbers, all the sources and the calculation most sellers skip.
