The battery

A wall-mounted home battery that stores power when it costs less, supports your home when power costs more, and earns on the grid in between. It works in the background. tīrama owns it, installs it, maintains it and manages it.

See the battery
A tīrama battery mounted on the outside wall of a house, beside the meter box

Who makes it

The tīrama battery unit

The cells

REPT BATTERO

The cells inside are made by REPT BATTERO. In 2025, REPT shipped more home energy storage battery cells than any other maker in the world.

The unit

FEB

FEB, Far East Battery, builds the unit: the battery, the inverter and the management system in one. FEB has been on BloombergNEF’s Tier 1 list of energy storage manufacturers since the second quarter of 2026.

What it does

Stores lower-cost power

It fills overnight and whenever power on the grid costs less.

Runs your home in the expensive hours

Morning and evening, your home draws from the battery instead of the grid.

Earns on the grid

It sells what your home does not need back to the grid. A rising share of what it earns is credited to your bill, and the rest helps hold your rate down.

Holds power in reserve

If the grid goes down, it keeps your home’s main circuits running.

One battery, every home

Every tīrama home gets the same battery: three stacked 5.12 kWh LFP modules, 15.36 kWh in all. We tune how it charges, how much it holds for your home and what it sells to the grid to the way your household uses power.

The battery

Three modules

15.36 kWh

Enough usable capacity to carry a typical New Zealand household through the expensive hours, morning and evening, then sell what is spare to the grid.

Tuned to your home

By our platform

Same battery

Lighter and heavier households get the identical unit. We set how much it holds back for your home and how much it sells to the grid, from your actual usage. No hardware to choose.

What it is made from

The cells inside are LFP, lithium iron phosphate. It is the chemistry the industry has settled on for homes because it is stable, it lasts, and it does not use cobalt or nickel.

  • No cobalt, no nickel. LFP cells use neither.
  • Built for daily use. It works through the expensive hours, morning and evening, every day.
  • Stable under heat. LFP is the most thermally stable of the common lithium chemistries, by a wide margin.
  • Long life. It loses capacity slowly and predictably.

All in one unit

The battery, a hybrid inverter and the management electronics are built together as one unit on your wall.

The inverter turns stored power into the power your home runs on, and back again. It is up to 98% efficient, runs on the standard single-phase supply, and can take solar straight in if you have panels.

01
The battery

Three stacked LFP modules store the energy, 15.36 kWh, the same in every home.

02
The hybrid inverter

Converts power in and out at up to 98% efficiency, and feeds in solar if you have it.

03
The management system

The built-in brain watches the cells, balances them, and keeps everything inside safe limits.

04
Our platform

Over the top, tīrama tells it when to charge, when to hold, and when to give back.

How it charges

There are no settings for you to manage. tīrama runs the battery from its own platform, reading the market and your home, and moving energy at the right moments.

Full Empty Overnight charge Expensive morning Midday recharge Expensive evening 12am6am12pm6pm12am Charging Powering your home
01
We watch the market and your home

Our platform tracks wholesale prices, grid conditions, and any solar coming off your roof, minute by minute.

02
It charges when power costs less

Overnight and in the abundant middle of the day, the battery fills up, quietly and automatically.

03
It powers your home in the expensive hours

When the grid is expensive and demand is high, morning and evening, your home runs off the battery instead. That shift, twice a day, is what makes the lower rate possible.

04
It gives back in the gaps

When your home does not need it, the battery lends fast support to the grid, and that income helps keep your rate low.

Safety

Safe by chemistry

LFP cells are the most thermally stable common lithium type.

Monitored

The built-in management system guards temperature, current and voltage continuously, and shuts things down long before any limit is reached.

Weatherproof and quiet

Rated IP65 against dust and water. Cooled without a fan and rated at under 25 decibels.

Grid-protected

Islanding, surge and lightning protection are all integrated, so it behaves safely on the network and disconnects cleanly when it must.

Instant backup

If the grid drops, the inverter can switch to backup in under 20 milliseconds, holding your home’s main circuits up. Hot water and EV charging are controlled loads on their own circuits and are not powered by the battery.

Independently certified

Built to IEC 62109 safety standards, installed to AS/NZS 5139 for home battery systems, and connected under the AS/NZS 4777.2 grid rules used here in Aotearoa.

At a glance

15.36 kWh
Battery capacity, every home
LFP
Chemistry, cobalt-free
6 kW
Hybrid inverter
98% max
Inverter efficiency
IP65
Dust and water rating
Quiet
Under 25 decibels
LFP chemistry IEC 62109 AS/NZS 5139 IP65

Installed by licensed electricians, monitored remotely, and owned, maintained and managed by tīrama. If there’s an issue, we fix it or replace it at no cost to you.

What you pay for, and what you do not

The hardware, the install and the upkeep are ours. What reaches you is a power rate lower than the cheapest equivalent plan in your area when you sign, a share of what the battery earns, and backup when the grid goes down.