Huabao New Energy (301327.SZ) launches SolarVault 3: Focusing on European opportunities, igniting the spark of home energy revolution with new courtyard balcony solar storage products

Driven by tight global energy supply and demand alongside ongoing policy catalysts, the global balcony solar-plus-storage sector is entering a phase of rapid, high-speed growth. LP Information expects that by 2031, the global market size for plug-in balcony energy storage systems will reach $14.97 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 21.1% from 2025 to 2031.

By region, Europe has become the world’s most core incremental market for balcony solar-plus-storage today, accounting for nearly 70% of global share. On the one hand, Europe’s residential electricity price benchmark is relatively high, making homeowners’ need to reduce electricity costs more urgent. On the other hand, Europe’s renewable energy policies continue to advance, and combined with deeper electricity market reforms, they are accelerating the transition of European households toward energy self-sufficiency.

Against this backdrop, Huabao New Energy (301327.SZ), a leading company in consumer-grade solar-plus-storage, recently debuted its next-generation yard balcony solar-plus-storage products—the Jackery SolarVault 3 series—at the Holland International Solar Technology & Application Expo and the Lyon Smart Energy Systems Exhibition in France, and officially began selling in Europe on March 25. As the company continues to improve its matrix of all-scenario household green electricity products, Huabao New Energy is actively responding to European households’ growing demand for expanded green electricity capacity, igniting the spark for transformation with its next-generation yard balcony solar-plus-storage lineup.

1. Three models with all-scenario, differentiated deployment; next-generation technology reshapes household solar-plus-storage solutions

The product series released this time includes three models: SolarVault 3 Pro, SolarVault 3 Pro Max, and SolarVault 3 Pro Max AC. Through differentiated deployment, they achieve full coverage of Europe’s all-scenario residential storage needs—from low to high. The core goal is to quickly increase the company’s market share in Europe’s yard and balcony solar-plus-storage market and convert the industry’s growth dividend into the company’s performance.

In terms of product specifications, SolarVault 3 Pro and SolarVault 3 Pro Max are solar-plus-storage integrated units that can connect to solar panels and support up to 4,000W of photovoltaic input. Equipped with four independent MPPT trackers, they can still efficiently track the power generation status even when solar photovoltaic modules face different orientations or have partial shading, maximizing daytime PV generation returns.

SolarVault 3 Pro Max performs even more strongly on the output side, with grid-tied output power increased to a maximum of 2,500W. It can efficiently store more surplus solar electricity to power high-energy-consumption smart endpoints such as air conditioners, dishwashers, and washing machines. In addition, when the power goes out, the product can switch to backup power mode within 20 milliseconds, ensuring the continuity of electricity supply for critical household devices.

SolarVault 3 Pro Max AC is positioned as a pure energy-storage dedicated model with no photovoltaic input. Relying on a modular design, it enables flexible expansion from 2.52kWh to 15.12kWh, and can be adapted to different home layouts and different energy-use needs, greatly expanding the range of users covered by the product and improving market penetration efficiency. At the same time, when grid-connected, it supports up to 3,680W of bypass output and can provide up to 2,500W of emergency output, balancing everyday power needs with the supply requirements of high-power equipment.

Compared with the pain points of traditional residential storage systems—high initial installation costs, long construction cycles, and complex grid modification— the SolarVault 3 series achieves disruptive breakthroughs. It also completes an iteration and upgrade of the company’s own products: upgrading from a “single energy storage device” to an “all-scenario household energy management terminal,” explaining the core upgrade direction of next-generation yard and balcony solar-plus-storage.

2. Strengthening the product moat with safety × intelligence × affordability; “AI + solar-plus-storage” opens up growth in performance and valuation space

Facing the wave of energy consumption upgrades among European households, the competitive focus of photovoltaic energy storage products has long moved beyond simply comparing parameters. It has evolved into whether they can be seamlessly connected at a lower cost that is affordable, maintain stable operation in complex environments, and convert energy storage capability into clear economic benefits.

This is also the underlying logic behind the SolarVault 3 series building its core differentiated moat. From the performance advantage perspective, the series builds an easy-to-deploy, smarter, and more economical all-scenario green electricity solution for households through three dimensions: “ultra-simplified installation, extreme safety, and intelligent dispatch.”

In the installation stage, the new product series relies on 2,500W AC coupling technology to provide a seamless plug-and-play upgrade solution for existing solar photovoltaic systems. Users do not need to replace the original solar photovoltaic modules or inverters; they can directly connect to the existing grid-tied PV power through a household outlet, capturing and storing the surplus electricity generated by the existing PV system.

Essentially, this approach transforms the traditional, heavy-asset residential storage model into a “low-threshold, fast-to-deploy” lightweight option, reducing household deployment costs and thereby improving the rate of self-consumption of solar power. Taking the Netherlands market as an example, where households are facing a reduction in net metering policy, demand for enhancing energy self-consumption is becoming increasingly urgent. With its “no modification” capability, the SolarVault 3 series can precisely target the policy transition window, expected to capture incremental demand more fully and accelerate the commercialization and rollout of new products. This means the target customer base expands from a small number of villa households to tens of millions of apartment households; the market space extends from rooftops to balconies, opening up a trillion-level incremental market.

On the safety dimension, SolarVault 3 adopts highly stable lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, and includes an aerosol fire suppression device and dual-end temperature monitoring. It has an IP65 protection rating and can operate across a wide temperature range from -20°C to 55°C. By covering 100 safety protections across electrical, environmental, and structural dimensions, and more than 1,000 stringent tests, it builds a strong line of defense for stable operation across the full lifecycle of household appliance equipment.

Beyond a full-line upgrade of hardware parameters, the SolarVault 3 series has also made major breakthroughs in its software system and AI dispatch algorithms, upgrading to iHEMS, a smart home energy management system. The system includes AI-driven energy management functions that can connect in real time to data from Europe’s mainstream electricity price platforms such as Nordpool, Tibber, and Rabot. Combined with solar power generation, household electricity consumption, and the battery’s state of charge, it automatically carries out the “valley charging and peak discharging” strategy—charging when electricity prices are low and discharging when prices are high—achieving optimization of household energy costs.

Overall, SolarVault 3 lowers the deployment threshold with “plug-and-play,” ensures safe operation with “full-domain safety,” and releases economic value with “intelligent dispatch.” In addition, higher-end models represented by SolarVault 3 Pro Max also leave support potential in their technical architecture for virtual power plant (VPP) functionality.

This means that in the future, household users running the SolarVault 3 system will move from being passive electricity consumption terminals to becoming active grid adjustment nodes within a regional power grid. For Huabao New Energy, this is not only an upgrade in product form; behind it lies a shift in business model—from selling devices to providing energy services, from a hardware manufacturer to a household energy management platform. With the technical integration of “AI + solar-plus-storage,” the company is positioned early at the strategic high ground of a “smart household energy management platform,” and is expected to open up a ceiling for long-term growth and upward valuation space.

3. Closing remarks

The launch of SolarVault 3 represents Huabao New Energy’s strategic positioning for structural opportunities in Europe’s household energy market: as Europe’s distributed PV installed capacity continues to grow, household energy storage penetration increases, and electricity prices fluctuate sharply, the combined forces are pushing “household energy self-sufficiency” from an ideal concept toward real, practical demand.

As a global leader in portable energy storage and an innovator in all-scenario household green electricity, Huabao New Energy has long focused on the M2C brand model, building a three-in-one channel ecosystem of an official website standalone store, third-party e-commerce, and offline retail—along with mature local operations capabilities. It has fully run the growth closed loop of “channels + brand + customers,” accelerating its capture of Europe’s market dividends.

In the first three quarters of 2025, even with a high base, the company’s Europe business still achieved over 130% year-on-year growth. This reflects that it has already formed strong brand barriers and high user conversion efficiency in the European market, and with the added synergy effects of its global channel network and business coordination, it injects strong momentum into the large-scale commercialization of the SolarVault 3 series.

It is worth mentioning that the SolarVault 3 series has successfully passed early market validation. The series of new products simultaneously received the 2026 Top Innovation Award from EUPD Research, reflecting the high recognition from European authoritative institutions of the company’s product innovation capabilities and market fit. With broad commercialization prospects ahead.

Looking forward, Huabao New Energy will continue to deepen its all-scenario household green electricity strategy, accelerate iterative innovation in portable energy storage and solar photovoltaic products, promote the rollout of cleaner energy solutions that are smarter, more economical, and more reliable to thousands of households, and continue to solidify its position as a leading consumer-grade solar-plus-storage company worldwide.

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