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01Commercial and industrial solarRooftop, ground-mount and carpark systems sized to your load. 02Battery storage and backupPeak shaving, backup and export control, engineered around your tariff. 03Everyday electrical worksSwitchboards, sub-mains, upgrades and fit-outs by licensed in-house electricians. 04EV chargers and stationsAC and DC charging for fleets, staff carparks and common property. 05HVAC and water pumpsElectrical works for heating, cooling and pump plant across the site. 06LED & Energy EfficiencyLED upgrades, emergency lighting and rewiring for warehouses and offices. 07Developments and strataFully integrated for new builds, multi-residential and bodies corporate. 08Maintenance and monitoringServicing, performance monitoring and repairs, for our systems and others.

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Method2 July 20263 min read

When a battery does not earn its keep

The edge of a solar panel photographed close, low over dew-covered ground cover.

Storage is the most requested and least interrogated line on a commercial proposal.

Storage gets asked for by name more often than any other component, and it is the one most likely to be included because it was asked for rather than because it returns anything.

A battery earns its keep in three situations: when the tariff has a spread worth arbitraging, when demand charges can be shaved, or when an outage genuinely costs the business money. If none of those apply at the site, the storage is a capital cost with a maintenance schedule attached.

So it gets modelled the same way the array does, against the load shape and the tariff, before a kWh figure goes on paper. Sometimes the answer is a smaller battery. Sometimes it is no battery yet, and a switchboard that will take one later without being rebuilt.

Saying so at quote stage is less comfortable than including it. It is also the only version of the conversation that survives the twenty years the system is supposed to run for.

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