aPower
13.6 kWh usable per unit
The AC-coupled battery — stacks in parallel as capacity needs grow.
Australia-wide
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FranklinWH
What could a FranklinWH battery save your home?
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Meet FranklinWH A battery plus a smart controller that juggles your home's solar, grid, battery and generator.
- Your current solar stays put
FranklinWH says aGate works with every solar inverter brand, so it joins your existing solar without changing it.
- Sized for the whole home
aGate's 80 A capacity is built to carry the power flow for an entire home when it switches to backup.
Needs the aGate controller in your quote.
- Add a generator for long outages
Connect a standby generator and aGate uses it to power the house and recharge the battery when solar runs short.
Works with 230 V, 50 Hz standby generators. The generator hook-up must be in your quote.
- 12-year warranty, on the approved list
Warranted for 12 years or 60 MWh with over 70% capacity kept, and both aPower X models are on the approved battery list.
60 MWh is for the 15 kWh aPower X. FranklinWH rated the earlier 13.6 kWh unit at 43 MWh.
The company behind it
A California home-energy company founded in 2019, with an Australian office in Macquarie Park, NSW.
Founded 2019
Established in 2019 and headquartered in California, by a team of battery and power-electronics engineers.
Listed since 2023
aPower X first joined Australia's approved battery list in November 2023.
Sydney office
Australian office in Macquarie Park, NSW, with a local 1800 service line.
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Rebates at quote
The federal Cheaper Home Batteries discount — roughly a quarter off installed cost — plus your state layer, applied upfront at quote.
Find FranklinWH installers near you.
Each state page lists its capital and regional centres, the battery rebate stack for that state, and the installers we match you with there. Not listed? Matching runs on postcode, so enter yours anyway.
- New South Wales — 13 locations
- Victoria — 8 locations
- Queensland — 11 locations
- Western Australia — 3 locations
- South Australia — 1 location
- Tasmania — 2 locations
- Northern Territory — 2 locations
- Australian Capital Territory — 1 location
Is FranklinWH right for your home? Fit and warranty checks
A good fit if…
- Households that want serious blackout resilience — including long outages — rather than brief ride-through
- Homes with existing solar they are happy with, since the AC-coupled design leaves it untouched
- Rural and semi-rural properties where generator integration and large stacked capacity earn their keep
- Buyers comfortable paying top-tier prices for whole-home management rather than a standalone battery
Consider the limitations
- You want the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour and nothing else — whole-home management is exactly the sort of capability you would be paying for
- You are building solar and storage together from scratch and want one integrated DC-coupled system from one vendor
- A compact single-unit install on a small home is the whole job — the aGate architecture earns its keep as complexity grows
- You want a brand with decades of Australian history rather than a strong record since 2023
The FranklinWH range
aGate
Whole-home energy controller
The system’s brain: manages solar, grid, battery, generator and EV inputs, with per-circuit control.
Stacked aPower systems
Multiple units per aGate for large properties
The path to very large storage on homes and rural properties that need it.
FranklinWH specifications and source documents
FranklinWH approaches home energy from the switchboard rather than the battery shelf. Its aPower battery is AC-coupled and deliberately inverter-agnostic — it keeps your existing solar exactly as it is — while the aGate controller sits at the centre of the home orchestrating solar, grid, battery, generator and EV charging as one system. Units stack to genuinely large capacities for properties that need them. It entered Australia in 2023 and has built some of the strongest customer satisfaction scores in the market, positioned and priced as a high-end whole-home solution rather than a budget add-on.
FranklinWH questions, answered
- What actually makes FranklinWH different from other batteries?
- The aGate. Most battery systems manage the battery; the aGate manages the house — solar, grid, storage, generator and EV charging as one orchestrated system, with individual circuits controllable from the app. The battery itself is deliberately conventional. If that whole-home layer is not something you value, you are paying for capability you will not use — which is the fair way to decide on this brand.
- Will FranklinWH work with the solar system I already have?
- Yes — this is one of its cleanest strengths. The aPower is AC-coupled and inverter-agnostic, so it sits alongside whatever solar brand you run today without touching it. Your solar keeps doing its job; the FranklinWH layer manages where the energy goes. The one caveat: if your existing inverter is near end of life, replacing it is a separate future job this system does not solve.
- Is a FranklinWH battery eligible for the federal rebate?
- Eligibility is model-by-model on the Clean Energy Council approved list, so have the installer show you the exact aPower variant on the current list before signing. With a high-end system the rebate is a large number — worth thirty seconds of checking.
- How well does FranklinWH handle blackouts?
- This is the strongest part of the product. It switches over automatically, can start itself from stored energy with the grid down, and with solar attached can run the managed circuits indefinitely — genuine off-grid capability rather than a few hours of ride-through. The design decision that matters is which circuits the aGate manages: that list, agreed at quote time, is exactly what stays alive.
- Can FranklinWH really run a generator and the battery together?
- Yes, and more gracefully than most: the aGate treats a generator as one more energy source to orchestrate, bringing it in automatically under rules you set rather than requiring manual changeover. For rural properties with existing generators this is one of the most practical reasons to shortlist the brand. It still needs configuring properly at install — ask specifically how the generator handover is set up.
- Is one aPower unit enough for my home?
- For most grid-connected homes, one unit covers an evening comfortably; whether it covers your ambitions depends on what you want the system to do in an outage. Whole-home resilience — the thing FranklinWH is actually built for — often points to two units or more once you add up the circuits you refuse to lose. Do the load maths before deciding, because the aGate architecture makes adding units later straightforward but never free.
- Is FranklinWH too new in Australia to trust?
- It arrived in 2023, so the local record is real but short — a few years of installs, a local office, and customer scores at the top of the aggregates. That is a genuinely good early signal, not a long one. The sensible hedge is the same as with any newer brand: an installer who has commissioned several of them and will support the system personally, and clarity in writing about who handles a manufacturer claim.