Storage & energy management
Industry Term

Dark start

A term used in battery applications; it affects how stored energy is charged, discharged, backed up, or valued.

What does Dark start mean?

A term used in battery applications; it affects how stored energy is charged, discharged, backed up, or valued.

Why does Dark start matter in a solar project?

This term affects how energy is stored, shifted, backed up, or valued over time. Storage is where solar stops being only a daytime resource and starts behaving like a controllable asset.

How it relates to Tigo

Dark start is relevant to battery storage behavior when a battery has discharged deeply and must safely restart.