The assessment
How it scores, by category
Market position
The data
DC-coupled battery
Stores DC energy and relies on system power electronics outside the battery product for household AC.
- Product role
- The published battery record covers the storage stack, controller and stated capacity range.
- Published range
- 9.6–25.6 kWh
- Phase
- Not recorded
- Backup boundary
- Installation-specific
What the documents establish
Published evidence, source-reviewed non-disclosure and unresolved questions remain separate from the product score.
Usable capacity
100% of this battery’s nominal capacity is usable, 9.6 kWh in the scored configuration.9.6 kWh usableScored configuration: SBR096. Published range 9.6–25.6 kWh.
No reserve is withheld at the stated depth of discharge.
At a sourced 100% depth of discharge the usable and nominal figures are the same number, so no separate nominal capacity is stated.
Usable capacity sourceDepth-of-discharge source 1Depth-of-discharge source 2Capacity guarantee: minimum retained at year 10
No year-by-year capacity schedule is published for this product - the manufacturer guarantees only this end-of-term minimum, not a specific decline curve. Capacity figure based on the sourced usable capacity of the base configuration; modular systems scale with additional modules.
Blackout protection
68 / 100#26 of 90 batteriesWhole-home (via hybrid inverter)
The blackout score is a standalone benchmark of outage resilience only - it re-weights sourced specs already scored in this product’s pillars (backup tier, switchover, surge strength, backup power, off-grid recharge) and never affects the overall score. Dots show the full battery fleet; the marker is this product.
Verification & sources
Market context
Global evidencechange in the site menu
Global benchmark. This scorecard is benchmarked globally. A global score does not imply local availability, certification, warranty coverage, or installer compatibility.
Benchmark anchor. The score uses the 9.6 kWh SBR096 reference configuration. The Australian series spans 9.6 to 25.6 kWh per unit and supports up to four units in parallel. Scored model: SBR096 · checked 2026-07-27. Evidence.
Sources & references · checked 2026-09-02
Strong evidence coverage
29 of 29 scored criteria link directly to a published source.
Values marked estimated, derived, or not found remain visible on the audit sheet and do not carry the same evidential weight as a linked source. Coverage measures direct links, not an independent guarantee that a claim is correct.
Record revision. Current SBR exact-family datasheet, Australian HV Battery Limited Warranty V9.0 effective 2026-05-21, and CER battery export reviewed 2026-08-07. India existing-catalogue battery review 2026-09-02: IN overlays recorded from manufacturer Indian catalogues; scores unchanged.
- Sourced valuesData card →
- Warranty summary10-year product warranty →
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Product record history
5 changes to this record · 28 products changed in this update
IN Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.sungrowpower.com/in/en/for-home; https://www.sungrowpower.com/in/en/products; https://www.sungrowpower.com/in/en/products/residential-energy-storage-system
IN Certifications
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The exact scored model SBR096 is not named on Sungrow's Indian residential storage catalogue retrieved 2026-09-02. India has no public per-model BIS register.
IN Support Note
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The exact scored model SBR096 is not named on Sungrow's Indian residential storage catalogue. India has no public per-model BIS register, so registration is not independently verified here. Absence from that catalogue is a listing fact, not a quality finding, and does not change the global score. That catalogue names MG5/6RL, MG8RL/MG10RL and MGL060. SBR128 and SBR160 appear only in a South Africa case study on the India For Home page. Those are different identities and are not transferred. Existing AU, US or DE warranty terms are not transferred.
IN Status
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- unavailable
Source revision
- Before
- Current SBR exact-family datasheet, Australian HV Battery Limited Warranty V9.0 effective 2026-05-21, and CER battery export reviewed 2026-08-07
- After
- Current SBR exact-family datasheet, Australian HV Battery Limited Warranty V9.0 effective 2026-05-21, and CER battery export reviewed 2026-08-07. India existing-catalogue battery review 2026-09-02: IN overlays recorded from manufacturer Indian catalogues; scores unchanged.
1 change to this record · 147 products changed in this update
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- Current text
- accepted at: 2026-08-09; category: battery; certification model: SBR096; jurisdiction: au_cec; match method: exact_normalized_single_record; product slug: sungrow-sbr-series-au; source key: data/batteries/sungrow_sbr.json; source manufacturer name: Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd; validation: approved at: 2023-08-02; candidate model: SBR096; data confidence: High; evidence url: https://cer.gov.au/document/cec-approved-solar-batteries-0; expires at: 2026-10-31; list data version: au-cer-battery-2026-08-20-b3f077cbe945; list retrieved at: 2026-08-27T04:30:11Z; listing status at validation: listed
The previous text is not reproduced here: both versions run to a full research paragraph. Both are in the JSON record linked below.
AU market evidenceAustralian approved-product source identity
2 changes to this record · 9 products changed in this update
DE Certifications
- Before
- After
- Sungrow's exact German SBR096-256 datasheet lists CE, CEC, IEC 62619, IEC 62040, UN 38.3 and VDE 2510-50 for the published SBR family.
DE Evidence sources
- Before
- https://ger.sungrowpower.com/upload/file/20240308/DE_UM_SBR096-256_Benutzerhandbuch.pdf; https://www.sungrowpower.com/de/de/products; https://www.sungrowpower.com/de/en/products/residential-energy-storage-system/b-sbr064-096-128-160-192-224-256; https://www.sungrowpower.com/us/en/warranty-terms-and-conditions-country-list-global-site
- After
- https://ger.sungrowpower.com/upload/file/20211117/DE%20DS%20SBR096%20SBR128%20SBR160%20SBR192%20SBR224%20SBR256%20Datenblatt.pdf; https://ger.sungrowpower.com/upload/file/20240308/DE_UM_SBR096-256_Benutzerhandbuch.pdf; https://www.sungrowpower.com/de/de/products; https://www.sungrowpower.com/de/en/products/residential-energy-storage-system/b-sbr064-096-128-160-192-224-256; https://www.sungrowpower.com/us/en/warranty-terms-and-conditions-country-list-global-site
2 changes to this record · 11 products changed in this update
Canonical identity
- Before
- Sungrow SBR 9.6 kWh
- After
- Sungrow SBR High-Voltage Stack 9.6 kWh
8 changes to this record · 78 products changed in this update
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- reviewed_absence
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- reviewed_absence
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.sungrowpower.com/au/en/products/residential-energy-storage-system/b-sbr064-096-128-160-192-224-256-alwaystaketwo
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: no exact-product battery/DC round-trip efficiency with a complete measurement boundary was established in the reviewed primary source set. This is a scoped reviewed absence, not proof that the value has never been measured.
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: no exact-product cycle-life result to exactly 70% retained capacity was established in the reviewed primary source set. Warranty limits and other or unstated endpoints are not converted. This is a scoped reviewed absence.
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.sungrowpower.com/au/en/products/residential-energy-storage-system/b-sbr064-096-128-160-192-224-256-alwaystaketwo
This is review.solar's publication history. It does not claim the product changed on the recorded date, and it excludes compatibility, system pairing, installation suitability and relative leaderboard prose. Open the complete JSON record.
Evidence timeline
Recorded verification events for this scorecard. These are evidence checks, not historical score snapshots.
- Core scorecard evidence checked
- IN market evidence checked
- DE market evidence checked
- Australian certification source identity verified
- AU market evidence checked
- Plain-language warranty summary checked
- US market evidence checked
- Series benchmark evidence checked
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Our reading
SBR High-Voltage Stack scores 73, placing 3 of 74 in the Performance & Value class against a class average of 63.0. Its strongest scoring dimension is capacity & usability (94), running 10.2 points above the class average on this dimension. Key specifications: LFP, 5.76 kW continuous output.